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  2. CHRISTMAS APPEALS.

    Sir,—For the last 27 years my predecessors, Mr. Alfred Woolley and the late lamented hon. secretary, Mr. George Baker on the approach of Christmas, appealed ...

    Article : 1,189 words
  3. HOW TO BE CREMATED.

    The president of the Cremation Society, Sir H. Thompson, has published a history of the cremation movement in the United States, and the "Daily News" gives ...

    Article : 920 words
  4. THE BOER PARLIAMENT.

    A noble pile of buildings, stately, imposing, and dazzling white in the blatant sunshine, against the bluest of blue skies. The Volksraad building fronts on to Market- ...

    Article : 928 words
  5. AFTER THE WAR.

    A correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" writes:- The Boer is a splendid colonist. None better. His training instincts, and ...

    Article : 1,447 words
  6. MR. M'LEAN AS A POET.

    In a Gippsland town the other day I picked up a booklet bearing the title, "Rural Poems, by Allan M'Lean." It will come as u surprise to many, as it did to ...

    Article : 1,548 words
  7. THE LIGHT SIDE OF QUARANTINE.

    An outsider would find it difficult to understand what a humorous place the quarantine station is. One is accustomed to hear and read long-winded diatribes about ...

    Article : 1,634 words
  8. A TRANSVAAL VOLUNTEER.

    The hot, dusty day had drawn to a close. The disagreeable north wind, which had been blowing fiereely from early morning, rendering everybody uncomfortable and ...

    Article : 3,390 words
  9. THE LARGEST SHIPS AFLOAT.

    The Oceanic is easily first in the list with a gross register tonnage of 17,000, and her nearest rival is the German s.s. Deutschland, 15,500 tons, followed by the Kaiser ...

    Article : 421 words
  10. THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

    The Army Service Corps as at present organised only dates from 1870. Previous to that time the Commissariat Department was a civil branch, and the feeding and ...

    Article : 693 words
  11. THE DRAMATIC CHARITIES.

    The dissolution of the firm of Williamson and Musgrove, and the retirement from active management in Melbourne—for a time, at all events—of Mr. J. C. ...

    Article : 548 words
  12. AN OBJECT LESSON.

    0 Kindly crities, friends so dear, In Germany and France, For your favariable [?] There seems but little chance. ...

    Article : 180 words
  13. THE CAPE PREMIER.

    Though still in the near neighbourhood of forty, Mr. W. P. Sechreiner, the Cape Premier, was a Q.C. so long age as 1882, after completing his education at Cambridge ...

    Article : 420 words
  14. THE SOLDIERS OF RUSSIA.

    Although there are immense social differences between the classes in Russia, observes the "Italia Militare e Martina" in an interesting article on the Russian army, it ...

    Article : 280 words
  15. A BERLIN MILITARY SCANDAL.

    Berlin is greatly excited over a trial for gambling. It appears that three young men of good family who had been officers attracted attention by an expenditure out ...

    Article : 286 words
  16. A GREAT CLIMB.

    Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman, who is climbing in India, has raised her world record of 18,000ft. on the Segfriedhorn, in her last two ascents, of Mount Bullock ...

    Article : 247 words
  17. THE COCK THAT CREW ON THE FIRST OP JUNE.

    In the great sea-fight of "the glorious first of June," the Marlborough, a ship of 74 guns, was surrounded by Franch vesse s, and she suffered so severely that, being ...

    Article : 179 words
  18. "GYP."

    The Comtesse de Martel, who writes novels under the name of "Gyp," and is interesting to historians because she is of full Mirabeau blood, has recently received ...

    Article : 104 words
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