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  2. CHINA'S SOLDIERS.

    Writing in the "Westminster Gazette" on the subject—one of the utmost importance at this juncture—of China's military strength, Lieut.-Colonel W. de ...

    Article : 1,130 words
  3. THE THIRTY LIGHT HORSEMEN.

    The day before the siege began I moved into Mulberry Grove. It was a charming four-roomed bungalow, two rooms papered and glazed, ...

    Article : 1,417 words
  4. DRAMATIC MURDER STORY.

    An extraordinary statement was made with passionate *emphasis to the Pantypridd magistrates recently by the Jamaican negro William Augustus Lacy. ...

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  5. THE SICK AND WOUNDED.

    The "Daily Telegraph" has laid itself out to present to the British public the defence urged by military and medical of fleers in South Africa; including Lord ...

    Article : 1,430 words
  6. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1815.

    Nothing shows the temper of the English people more clearly than the books which have recently been published. It is the season of holidays, when we should ...

    Article : 1,129 words
  7. HOW THE BOERS WERE MISLED.

    The following letter from a Free State farmer, sigaed "Christian Oosthuisen, C.'s son," and dated from Jagersfontein, Orange River Colony, is published ...

    Article : 505 words
  8. CURIOUS SLANDER SUIT.

    In the Queen's Bench Division, on Wednesday, Mr Justice Darling and a common jury had before them the case of Haisman v. Winter. Miss Lily Haisman, a ...

    Article : 404 words
  9. CAPE PARLIAMENT.

    The admirable restraint and. dignity displayed in the Governmor, Speech are what might have been expected on, to occasion of the opening of Parliament, ...

    Article : 427 words
  10. LITERARY INNS.

    Some inns of literary celebrity have found their way into the sale market: Next door to Mir Jingle's immortal hostelry, where it cost half a crown to ...

    Article : 301 words
  11. PRODIGY AT BISLEY.

    Bisley likes a sensation. It had one a few years ago in the personality of Miss Leale, the lady shot from 'Jersey. It has another this years in one of the boys of the ...

    Article : 540 words
  12. A PROPHECY.

    Mr Jas. S: King directs our attention to the following, which appeared in "The Herald" on the 8th June, 1896, and which may now be regarded as prophetic:— ...

    Article : 331 words
  13. A WARNING.

    "The day before Colonel Gordon left London for India," W.H.R. writes, "he called on me at the Carlton and asked me to come out and have a little ...

    Article : 493 words
  14. MIDSUMMER MORN MYTH.

    The summer sun flaming up over the blue rim of Salisbury Plain is a sight for the gods. So much so. indeed, that it is doubtful ...

    Article : 457 words
  15. A WAR ROMANCE.

    About three years ago considerable sensation was caused in Rochdale by the supposed drowning of a son of the Rev. J. Hirst Hollowell, the well-known ...

    Article : 202 words
  16. BRITISH RAILWAYS.

    The traffic receipts for the week ended 8th July of the fifty-four railways of the United Kingdom, with a mileage of 20,763, amounted to L1,982,705, being equal ...

    Article : 161 words
  17. THE CHINESE PROBLEM.

    Writing from Malta on June 2S to a gentleman at Plymouth, who suggested that his experience of China would be ...

    Article : 263 words
  18. THE EARL OF YARMOUTH.

    A general meeting of creditors was held the other day to consider an offer made by the debtor (the Earl of Yarmouth). At the time when the ...

    Article : 179 words
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    Mr Henry Arthur Jones was asked his opinion regarding the prospects of the as yet unknown dramatist." and said in response that he believed every ...

    Article : 170 words
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    The gun that will shoot 20.76 miles (says an American paper) has been successfully jacketed at Watervliet, and will now progress to completion. It will he the ...

    Article : 196 words
  21. WHY HE TOOK THE CHAMPAGNE.

    A certain captain in one of the Highland re[?]ments on being ordered out to South Africa, gave a farewell dinner to his company. Addressing the men before they commenced to ...

    Article : 120 words
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    Fair Widow: Yes, I've made up my mind that when I die I shall be cremated. as my husband was. Gallant Captain: Dear lady, please don't talk about ...

    Article : 79 words
  23. TOO DEEP ALREADY.

    As an Irish regiment. was crossing the Modder one of the men fell into the water. At that moment an officer ordered the men to form two deep. Pat, in the water, heard the order, and ...

    Article : 55 words
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