Stamp-collecting is one of the pastimes of Mr. Alfred Austin, the Poet Laureate. Walter Mead jun., son of the famous bowler, has also joined the Essex eleven, making, it is ...
Article : 814 wordsTennis Tournament.—The match for the Sheedy and Farrier trophies of a guinea each, one for the gentlemen and the other for the ladies, was concluded on the Bungonia court on ...
Article : 605 wordsLord Methuen, who has been raised to the rank of Field-Marshal, is extremely popular in South Africa, where he has been Governor of Natal since 1909. Lord Methuen joined the Forces in ...
Article : 182 wordsSergeant Filan is about to retire on his superannuation allowance. He is one of the most worthy officers we have had stationed in the town. Constable Leeds, of Araluen, has been ...
Article : 468 wordsEducation is the first line of defence in this country.—Mr. Iliffe. ...
Article : 15 wordsSydney folk welcomed back Miss Carrie Lancely, the mezzo-soprano, who has been abroad studying for four and a half years. Mrs. H. H. Groth and other intimate friends besides ...
Article : 1,495 wordsEvery bad book that is read weakens the power of reading good ones, and ruins the true literary digestive apparatus.—Mr. Frederic Harrison. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe use of moderate language and truth upon the political platform is much better than strong language, and is to the advantage of all parties.—Lord Chief Justice. ...
Article : 30 wordsAll through the nineteenth century women had a larger part—direct and indirect—in the political life of England than in any other country.—Mr. Edward Porritt. ...
Article : 28 wordsNo shouting of war songs, no passionate patriotism, no loud and exaggerated language, no artificial worked-up enthusiasm can atone for the want of character in a ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Duke of Argyll, who has been made a Knight of the Garter, has many other titles. He is Marquis of Lorne and Kintyre, Earl of Campbell and Cowall, Viscount of Lochow and ...
Article : 164 wordsWe are proud to consider ourselves a practical people; and, unfortunately, ideas of beauty are not bound up in this.—Mr. G. W. Hayler. ...
Article : 28 wordsIn the country one never washes except as a sort of social ceremony to prove that one is well brought up.—Mr. George Bernard Shaw. ...
Article : 28 wordsIf the supremacy of a nation depended upon its army and navy, certain great nations of the past would not have been swept into obilivion.—Mr. Blenkinsop. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Right Hon. Sir George Trevelyan, who has joined the distinguished few who comprise the Order of Merit, is nearing his seventy-third year. His name was once among the most ...
Article : 125 wordsA large number of the young people in the poor quarters of London seem to have no aim in life, no pride of race.—Mr. H. E. Easton. ...
Article : 31 wordsI believe that as the outcome of the Imperial Conference an immense amount of good will be achieved. It is not to be expected that its members would agree upon ...
Article : 116 wordsIn the Coronation procession and the Royal Progress on the following day the Master of the Horse played a considerable part. Ho is one of the great officers of the Court, and is always ...
Article : 192 wordsLet us be glad that whereas in times past an opposition was easily expelled the city in which it tried to exist, or found the heads of its leaders cut off and their estates ...
Article : 79 wordsAs we expected, good rains fell in July, and the land generally is in good order for cropping. All seasonable crops can be readily sown. We advise growers, especially dairymen, to get in ...
Article : 379 wordsBritish institutions have stood the test of time. While they are not perfect, they are certainly the wisest which have ever been devised by man .for the government of men, ...
Article : 122 wordsSchool of Arts.—The first meeting of the newly-elected committee took place on Tuesday night, 1st inst. There was a full attendance of members, and Mr. F. E. Dudley presided. The ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. Victor Harbord one of the King's trainbearers at the Coronation ceremony, has had a curious. unofficial connection with the Army. His father. Colonel Charles Harbord, Lord ...
Article : 138 wordsThings move fast in these days, and any dreamer may wake up in the morning to find his dream accomplished.—Lord Rosebery. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 145 wordsBecause a man describes himself as an independent gentleman, it does not follow that he has any money.—Judge Harrington. ...
Article : 23 wordsSir George Alexander, who has joined the company of actor-knights, was not always the handsome and self-possessed actor known to playgoers of to-day. Many years ago a sister of Mrs. ...
Article : 190 wordsMr. Charles lass, who resided here some years ago, died up north a few days since at the age of ft years. The deceased for many years carried on the business of storekeeping, and left ...
Article : 191 wordsIt is a healthy thing to have differences of opinion as long as we have at times one common platform on which to stand.—Lord Northampton. ...
Article : 29 wordsThose who write the history of the English Bench will be able to trace to that source the river of justice and equity which now spreads over a quarter of the inhabited world. ...
Article : 39 wordsIn the future England will depend more on the character and life of the many than in the past, when it relied more on the few who were leaders.—Canon Bilbrough. ...
Article : 33 wordsAlthough there is a feeling that in international politics might is the only thing that counts, yet history controverts it. ...
Article : 27 wordsRifle Shooting.—Our Gunning correspondent writes:—On Saturday last a team from the Gunning Rifle Club visited Jerrara to compete against the local club for the silver cup donated ...
Article : 309 wordsLord Brassey, who is one of the Coronation earls, is extremely popular owing to the kindliness of his nature and his unfailing generosity to all. So pronounced is this trait that some ...
Article : 254 wordsIt is our duty to create an adequate military force in this country, and so relieve the fleet from the necessity of protecting us against the possibility of casual invasion and ...
Article : 53 wordsIt is not an inequality of individual worth or wealth which the poor resent, but rather inequality or opportunity in the things that make up the worth of human life. And to ...
Article : 94 wordsThe distinction between literature and journalism has long since broken down. They both have too much imagination to be kept really separate. ...
Article : 27 wordsWe are owners to-day of the greatest Empire the world has ever seen, but we must not forget that as it was won by blood so it may be lost by failure to appreciate that there ...
Article : 59 wordsThe first meeting of the newly-elected committee was held on Thursday evening, Mr. J. Turner, president, in the chair. Mr. Turner was congratulated on his first appearance in the ...
Article : 202 wordsIt is not conceivable that these new nations which have sprung up all over the earth, attached though they be to the British Crown, can all have a uniformity of interest with the ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Sat 5 Aug 1911, Page 2
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