The House of Lords hag been in an uncommonly bellicose mood this week, and the sayings and doings of the Peers have quite monopolised political interest. While the ...
Article : 1,844 wordsSir,—Every right-minded man and woman owes you warm thanks for your leader on the prize-fight, published in Monday's issue. The "Herald," so far as I have seen, is the only ...
Article : 419 wordsM'Mahon's Point will soon be one of the few great termini in Sydney. Already perspiring men with short shovels, carts and crowbars, are levelling off the old natural beauties on ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 493 wordsSir,—The degrading scene of last Saturday now calls forth denunciation from many quarters. The pity is that they come so late in the day. The character of these exhibitions ...
Article : 377 wordsThe final matinees of "The Merry Widow" are announced for day and Friday, as on Friday evening the 100th and last performance of Lehar's famous comic opera will be given. Mr. J. C. Williamson ...
Article : 314 wordsSir,—Those people who are loud in their cries to suppress this kind of sport are a long way in the minority. If it was the pleasure of these two men to decide who was to be ...
Article : 142 wordsSir,—Kindly permit me to say how proud I am that we have such a paper as the "Sydney Morning Herald" that speaks so truly on such exhibitions as witnessed on Saturday last. ...
Article : 105 wordsAt the Lyceum, Mr. C. Spencer will give holiday matinees to-day, Friday, and Saturday, when, and also in the evening, the new theatrescope company will present "The Bridge of Sighs," a touching spect[?] ...
Article : 337 wordsMr. J. N. Breden, Comptroller of Assets, said yesterday that Alderman Allen Taylor had come back from his trip to Europe with the opinion that the site for the new fruit and ...
Article : 639 wordsSir,—The various letters published to-day commenting on the recent pugilistic encounter are, to say the least, highly amusing, if not grotesquely absurd. ...
Article : 398 wordsSir,—Allow me a small space in your valuable paper to answer some of the expressions of disgust and comparisons which some of the contributors to your columns have expressed. ...
Article : 347 wordsSir,—As a clergyman of over 40 years' experience, I wish to say that I agree to a great extent with those who condemn the recent prize fight, both as to its character, the time ...
Article : 365 wordsSir,—If Burns had won there would have been none of this outcry from Mr. E. P. Simpson and the many simple-minded citizens who for months past have been filled with ...
Article : 363 wordsThe Highland, Society of New South Wales will follow their annual sports gathering on Friday with a New Year's Night concert of Scottish ballads. There will be concerted numbers by the Sydney ...
Article : 347 wordsSir,—I have read some excited protests against the recent fight from Canon Boyce and other clergymen. At present Canon Boyce is denouncing the "inhumanity" of ...
Article : 299 wordsSir,—With your kind permission a few words on the above subject. On reading the views of some of your correspondents in to-day's issue, one in particular, who suggests the ...
Article : 499 wordsWonderland City will be open from 2 p.m. until 10.30 p.m. throughout the holidays, when there will be a general admission tariff to all the many sideshows, the free circus, the music, and the entire scheme of ...
Article : 77 wordsSir,—After reading the numerous letters in your columns re the great world's boxing contest, I would like, as one of those present, to give a line on other big fights in ...
Article : 384 wordsSir,—As one of Bishop Stretch's "cowards" who witnessed the boxing contest on Boxing Day (what more appropriate?), I beg to be permitted the privilege of replying. Firstly, ...
Article : 82 wordsSir,—A correspondent signing himself "E. P. Simpson " in sour issue of the 29th, after admitting that he was present at both the recent prizefights indulges in a loud indignant ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 76 wordsSir,—Mr. E. P. Simpson's very sensible and sound letter in your to-day's issue just hits the nail on the head, as we do not wish any interference with manly sports—and boxing ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Storemen and Packers (public bonded and free) Wages Board will continue its sitting on January 8. Mr. G. C. Addison is chairman of the board, and the personnel is as follows:—Mr. C. C. Lance, of the ...
Article : 174 wordsSir,—I notice one of your correspondents in yesterday's paper states he saw both contests, but does not wish to view any more. This is all very well after the event. It ...
Article : 186 wordsSir,—For the past 12 months I have been attending a district school, with a view and hope of inter on qualifying as a teacher, and passed the pro. students' exam, high up in ...
Article : 174 wordsSir,—At last a woman's pen is used to protest against the degrading exhibition of the prize-fight. What are the women about? They have the much-coveted vote, and at election ...
Article : 224 wordsSir,—In a book called "Famous Fights, Past and Present," edited by Harold Furness, of England, one of the best authorities in the world on that subject, the writer states in ...
Article : 372 wordsThe Hairderssers' Union met at the Trades Hall last night, when nominations were received for the election of officers, which takes place at the next meeting. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir,—From my own pulpit last Sunday morning I expressed my sense of indignation and shame at the degrading exhibition at Rushcutter Bay last Saturday. I wish now in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsSir,—One of your correspondents, in referring to the recent boxing exhibition at the Stadium. comments on the "attendant degrading influence of such an exhibition," and "the ...
Article : 82 wordsIn this semi-tropical climate "lazy liver," and all the disagreeable symptoms (including "that sluggish feeling") which it brings in its train, is only too common. In the following ...
Article : 305 wordsThe Bottle Accumulators' Union met last night, and discussed the recent conference between the breweries, the bottle yard owners, and the union with regard to the price of bottles. It was decided to ...
Article : 43 wordsSir,—Is Saul also among the prophets? is what those of your readers who are privileged to known Mr. E. P. Simpson will undoubtedly exclaim. Imagine the Ted Simpson, the beau ...
Article : 450 wordsSir,—I read the views of your correspondents re the above, and as a spectator of that event I am speaking from personal knowledge of the so-called degrading exhibition. I ...
Article : 406 wordsWhen the kidneys and liver are inactive or diseased, certain waste poisons are retained in the system, and we suffer from Rheumatism, Gout, ...
Article : 215 wordsSir,—May I be allowed to give an Australian girl's opinion on the Burns-Johnson contest? I am a firm bellever in Christianity, and, I hope, a womanly woman. Yet I ...
Article : 391 wordsSir,—Various arguments are now appearing in your paper regarding the recent so-called degrading prize fights, and these arguments compel me to answer, as a man who has seen ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 30 Dec 1908, Page 6
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