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RECORDS OF SPEED AND ENDURANCE ON THE BICYCLE.
Although the great majority of ridens are content to travel at a comfortable speed of from eight to ten miles an hour, and have neither the inclination nor the ability to ...
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Universal Military Service for Australia.
At a meeting of members of the United Service Institution of New South Wales, in Sydney on, Monday night, a paper was read by Captain J. G. Legge, Adjutant of ...
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SPORTING.
Dandy is now a strong second favourite in the betting on the Epsom Handicap at 12 to 1. Superb is still quoted at 10 to 1, white 14 to 1 is on offer each against Severity and The ...
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Advertising
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CYCLING.
It is announced from Norwood, Massnchusetis, that the world's record for the straight-away mile on a bicycle has been broken there by Joe Downey, who covered the distance in ...
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CRICKET.
Pars are going the rounds of the English papers that Jones's services have been retained by Sussex for five seasons at £350 a year. Shown such a paragraph at Leeds, ...
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ATHLETICS.
It is probable that three athletes who have been earning fame as pedestrains in England and America will shortly arrive in Australia. S. E. Smith who won the individual ...
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SWIMMING.
F. C. V. Lane, the Sydney crack, is doing famously in the old country. He has now taken part in six events, in three of which he was victorious, and in the other three he ...
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OUR UNFINISHED WORLD.
The world is still making; it is still unfinished. The circulation of matter is always in progress. Nothing is lost: nothing is gained. For if the rivers or the sea, the ...
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PIGEON HOMING.
The Semdmore Pigeon Homing Club held its fortnightly fly from Thornton last Saturday, with the following result:—J. Godwin's Mistress 1st, time 19min 10sec; G. Gills ...
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MINERAL OIL FOR ROAD MAKING.
The London papers have just been booming the employment of petroleum on an American railway for binding the road, and suggesting its application to other kinds of ...
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Family Notices
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A MECHANICAL SHORTHAND WRITER.
From Germany—not this time from America—comes a simple, compact, little machine, which it is claimed will do for shorthand what the typewriter has done for ...
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RHODES—THE COLOSSUS OF SOUTH AFRICA.
Seen from afar—In foreign countries—Mr. Cecil Rhodes appears as the most important figure in the British Empire. He is much more widely known by repute to Americans ...
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THE ASCENT OF WOMAN.
In an article in the "Young Woman" on "The Ascent of Woman," we are told that whereas the census taken six years before the Queen came to the throne contained no ...
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