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  2. OTAGO 'VARSITY TEAM

    In view of the Otago University fifteen's visit to Sydney in July the following comment by "Full-back" (Auckland "Star") is of interest:--The first appearance of the ...

    Article : 341 words
  3. JAPANESE MUSIC.

    Music has always played a great part in fighting, and Lord Woiseley declares that "troops that sing as they march will not only reach their destination more quickly, and in ...

    Article : 913 words
  4. JAMES STANBURY.

    On July 22 Jim Stanbury, the sculling idol of the Australian people nine years ago, will attempt to wrest the world's championship from George Towns. ...

    Article : 457 words
  5. CUPID'S VISITS.

    I want to make a plea for romance in the home, and for love-making as a parlour pastime (says a woman writer). I want to say to parents who have young daughters that ...

    Article : 643 words
  6. THUMBS UP!

    [We pay 7s 6d each week for the best paragraph for this column sent in by our readers. Contributors must write on one side of the paper only, and each paragraph must bear the name and address of the sender. In case the paragraph is copied, the name of the paper from which it is taken should be given. Any item sent in may be used, ...

    Article : 2,786 words
  7. A PAYING PATIENT.

    When the maid opened the door in response to Hollander's tug at the bell he walked into the little consultation-room and ensconced himself comfortably in a chair near the ...

    Article : 836 words
  8. THE OLD SEXTON.

    Old "Jeems" was the doorkeeper in Broughton-place Church, Edinburgh, when Dr. John Brown's father was pastor there. Dr. Brown, it is scarcely necessary to add, was the ...

    Article : 465 words
  9. JAMES STANBURY.

    As he was in 1896 when he was beaten for the championship of the world by Gaudaur. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 19 words
  10. IN THE WILD DAYS OF CALIFORNIA.

    This is the story by General John Goshwilder, one of the leading capitalists of California, and one of the really good fellows of that State. One day in the early times he ...

    Article : 324 words
  11. MISS EDITH A'VARD.

    A violinist who is going to take England by storm. Miss A'Vard has already met with considerable success in Bohemia and Vienna. She is one of the most recent pupils ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 47 words
  12. "LA SYLPHE."

    One of the chief dancers in "My Lady Nicotine," at the Alhambra, London. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 15 words
  13. HOCH, DER BIGAMIST.

    Hoch, Chicago's Bluebeard, has been convicted and sentenced to death.--News item. Therel have been men, and not a few. And brave of heart, you see. ...

    Article : 260 words
  14. GETTING RICH SLOWLY.

    Ordinarily a great fortune is built up like a stone wall--a stone at a time, says the "Troy Press." The young man who declines to lay the first stone, because it comes so far ...

    Article : 111 words
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    Advertising : 171 words
  16. A WEST AFRICAN STORY.

    Captain S. Stephens writes in "Competitions":--The natives of Old Calabar, where I once acted as Vice-Consul, extend the surgeon's responsibilities far beyond what ...

    Article : 431 words
  17. JAMES STANBURY

    The latest picture taken of the ex-champion at his training quarters at Ryde, preparing to meet Towns. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 21 words
  18. PIANOS CATCH COLD.

    "In this wintry weather," said the tuner, "keep your piano in a warm, dry room, and see, besides, that its cover is a good, thick, comfortable one. Otherwise it will take cold. ...

    Article : 126 words
  19. EVIDENCE AT HAND.

    "Ah!" sighed the man with the scanty hair, "Shakespeare spoke truly when he said, 'The evil that men do lives after them.'" For, be it said, the scanty- haired man had ...

    Article : 49 words
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