Articles from page 6: Previous page Next page
-
Please wait. Loading browse data...
-
CURRENT LITERATURE.
If there are any among us who have what may be regarded as hereditary sympathy with the hero of the old border ballad, Johnnie Armstrong, in his love for a ...
Article : 627 words -
CLERMONT.
The weather is intensely hot by day, though the nights are pleasant. The country has a desert-like appearance, the effects of scorching sun and grasshoppers. ...
Article : 1,020 words -
Advertising
{No abstract available}
Advertising : 2 words -
SPORTING NEWS.
{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 words -
BATTLE STORIES TOLD BY THOMAS ATKINS.
The most graphic and detailed accounts of the fighting in South Africa still come from the pen or pencil of Tommy Atkins, as indited in his rare moments of leisure, ...
Article : 137 words -
CENTEAL QUEENSLAND ROWING CLUB.
A general meeting of the members of the Central Queensland Rowing Club was held in the Market Hotel last night. There were present:—Messrs. A. C. Drake (in the ...
Article : 715 words -
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
M.—Peter Jackson, the coloured pugilist, will be thirty-nine years of age next. July. R. Fitzsimmons is about the same age. ...
Article : 23 words -
WHAT LOW CLASS BOERS DO.
An officer in the Inniskillings, describing the Colenso battle, says:—"In this action the low-class Boer robbed and stripped the killed, and even cut off an officer's finger ...
Article : 87 words -
THE TURF.
The Autumn Meeting of the Rockhampton Jockey Club will be held this afternoon, commencing at two o'clock and on Monday next, commencing at twelve ...
Article : 461 words -
ROSEWOOD CHAMPION GOLD MINING COMPANY.
An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Rosewood Champion Gold-mining Company, Limited, was held at the offices of the Secretary (Mr. R. R. ...
Article : 723 words -
Advertising
{No abstract available}
Advertising : 123 words -
TOO CUTE FOR THE BOERS.
A Scots Guardsman relates the method adopted by two Highlanders to escape capture after Magersfontein:—"Two men of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders ...
Article : 258 words -
ATHLETICS, &c.
The Hibernian sports on Monday next promise to be very successful provided the weather remains fine, of which there is at present every appearance. Yesterday the ...
Article : 84 words -
"HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD."
An artillery smith named Keenan, writing after the Magersfontein battle, says:— "You cannot believe how happy I am. It in grand excitement to see a few Boers ...
Article : 155 words -
RIFLE SHOOTING.
The excellent shotting shown by the Mount Morgan and Rockhampton Rifle Club teams last Saturday was very gratifying to all who take an interest in such ...
Article : 221 words -
AN IRISH RETORT.
A corporal in the Scots Fusilcers says:— "Just before the battle the Irish Brigade (Boers' side) sent a note to our Dublin Fusileers, saying they would be glad to ...
Article : 73 words -
CYCLING.
The Cyclists; Touring Club will celebrate their opening official run this season to-morrow, having an all-day picnic at New Zealand Gully, on the Emu Park line. The ...
Article : 116 words -
Nature's Reason for Pain.
When one of Dr. Abernethy's patients, remarked that it gave him great pain to lift his hand to his head, the eminent physician responded that, in such case, he was ...
Article : 769 words -
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
Sergeant G. Atkinson, of the Protectorate Regiment, now with Colonel Baden-Powell, at Mafeking writes:—"I have just escaped from the jaws of death by as ...
Article : 230 words -
MOUNT MORGAN.
At a special meeting of the Hospital Committee a report was read from the Resident Surgeon, pointing out the necessity—owing to the number of children patients now in ...
Article : 169 words -
CRICKET.
The third home and home representative match between the Mount Morgan and Rockhampton Cricket Associations was played on the Association Ground last ...
Article : 646 words -
DRUMMER IN THE THICK OF IT.
Drummer W. J. Hobson, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, writing from Modder River, says:—"I have been in four big battles now, and pulled through safe and sound. I ...
Article : 96 words -
MINING NOTES
Mr. W. Usher states that he has sold the Mount Usher Extended mine, a property in the vicinity of the Mount Usher mine, to a London syndicate at a good ...
Article : 166 words -
Advertising
{No abstract available}
Advertising : 88 words -
Advertising
{No abstract available}
Advertising : 140 words
Buy
Download
Please choose from the following download options:
Print page as...