Articles from page 5: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. WHAT THE COLONIES WERE.

    No one could have spoken of the colonies in this strain in 1837. In that year Canada was torn by rebellion, which lasted down to the end of November, New South Wales was still ...

    Article : 743 words
  3. PROCLAMATION.

    Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God to call to His mercy Our late Sovereign Lord King William the Fourth, of blessed and glorious memory, by Whose decease the Imperial Crown of the ...

    Article : 305 words
  4. A SPORTSMAN.

    A review of the Prince's life would not be complete without a reference to his qualities as a sportsman. Reared in the sphere of an English gentleman, he has cultivated and become ...

    Article : 307 words
  5. DECLARING ALLEGIANCE.

    At an early hour on the following day all Sydney was astir to do honor to the great occasion; and as the hour of 12 approached, masses of people clothed in dark-colored raiment, were seen ...

    Article : 241 words
  6. THE KING.

    The Prince Albert Edward was ushered into the world at Buckingham Palace at 12 minutes to ll o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, November 9, 1841. With Glendower, his Royal ...

    Article : 674 words
  7. CHARACTER.

    As to the personality of the Prince, all who have met him agree that he is of a free and general disposition, of cheery, good nature, and entirely unaffected by arrogance or any ...

    Article : 305 words
  8. SYDNEY IN '37.

    Let us now compare the general state of aff[?] here when the accession was celebrated in Sydney with that which we about us now. Sydney was then a comparatively little town ...

    Article : 207 words
  9. ILLNESS.

    In 1871 the Prince was attacked with typhoid fever contracted owing to the defective drainage at Sandringham. The Prince, his groom, and Lord Chesterfield were stricken down ...

    Article : 287 words
  10. SALUTING THE QUEEN.

    As soon as everyone had signed the paper there were 126 names to it altogether-Sir Richard again led the way to the front doorsteps, when he desired the High Sheriff (Thomas Macquoid) to ...

    Article : 427 words
  11. THE TERRITORY IN '27.

    Sydney was an insignificant place in those days we must admit, especially toe the outlet of one of the largest territories in the world. But whom our forefathers proclaimed Victoria "the Supreme ...

    Article : 165 words
  12. AUSTRALIA.

    An evening day for Sydney folks was Friday. October 27, 1837. News had just reached the colony that William the Fourth, of blessed and glorious memory, had died on June 20, "at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 399 words
  13. INDIA.

    The Prince's memorable visit to India took place in 1875. Parliament voted £142,000 for the trip, of which, it was specified, £69,000 was to be spent in presents. An influential suite and ...

    Article : 202 words
  14. CAMBRIDGE.

    In 1861 the Prince became an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, though curiously enough, his name was not entered on the roll until he wrote it himself in 1883 when entering ...

    Article : 382 words
  15. THE CONSTITUTION IN '37.

    This enormous territory was governed, in the fashion of a Crown colony, by a military gentleman, with the assistance of two Councils-the Executive, consisting of the seven leading officials ...

    Article : 33 words
  16. THE COLONIES.

    Several years of quiet public work followed, Gradually the increasing years and the retired life of Queen Victoria had cast upon the Prince and Princess the performance of many of her Majesty's ...

    Article : 196 words
  17. THE BACCARAT CASE.

    In the winter of 1890 many rumors were current concerning a cause celebre in which the Prince was to be called as a witness. He had once before been examined in court concerning the ...

    Article : 755 words
  18. MAJORITY.

    On November 9, 1858, the Prince entered his eighteenth year, and attained his legal majority. On the same day he was made a colonel in the army and received the Garter. A month later ...

    Article : 266 words
  19. CHILDHOOD.

    On January 25, 1842, the Prince of Wales was christened in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, the Queen's desire that the religious rite should be performed in a consecrated building causing a ...

    Article : 351 words
  20. A FEW FIGURES.

    As it is not easy to get on without statistics, we may be excused for mentioning that the total population of this colony in '37 was 85,250. which included about 20,000 convicts and a large number ...

    Article : 36 words
  21. MARRIAGE.

    The Prince's marriage with the "Sea King's daughter from over the sea," who has become one of the best beloved of British idols, had in it a touch of romance. It is said the Prince was ...

    Article : 763 words
  22. THE CONSTITUTION OF '43

    Under this system of government the colonists continued to live peaceably for many years though not without an enormous amount of gru[?]bling, forcibly expressed by Wentworth's ...

    Article : 10 words
  23. THE QUEEN AND IRELAND.

    Complaint was long and not unjustly made of the extreme infrequency of the Queen's visits to Ireland. But before the dose of her life she made some compensation for this. of which many ...

    Article : 199 words
  24. AMERICA.

    In 1860 the Prince of Wales paid a visit to the New World. It is interesting, in these days when spontaneous offers of troops go forth to the mother country at the first thought of an ...

    Article : 549 words
  25. EARLY EDUCATION.

    The time of the Royal mother and father was too much "ta'en up with affairs of the State," and with other public duties, for them to be able to devote as much personal care to their children as ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 602 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$