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TENNIS IN AUSTRALIA--THE ANNUAL CHAMPIONSHIP

... TENNIS IN AUSTRALIA -THE ANNUAL CHAMPIONSHIP. LAST year we published the portrait of Mr. H. J. Hill, who had won the tennis championship in Melbourne, and became the holder of the gold racket. This year, Mr. Hill being in England, was not present to compete, and Mr. J. B. Box, who won the silver racket last year for second place, won the championship this year; his portrait is given herewith. ...

Front Matter

... Xo. 364-- Vol. XXVIII. WEDNESDAY, JAN DAE Y 17, 1900. sixpence. ...

AN INTERVIEW WITH KRUGER: OOM PAUL PREPARED FOR WAR FOR MANY YEARS

... AjST interview with kruger. OOM PAUL PREPARED FOR WAR FOR MANY YEARS. I have recently had an opportunity of a chat with an American gentleman who met Oom Paul before the war began in a semi official capacity, and being of an enterprising turn of mind, like most of his countrymen, he interviewed the President, and told me exactly what Kruger said to him. We will fight, said he, with ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 888 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

SCENES IN BELEAGUERED LADYSMITH

... . A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OP THE COVE REDOUBT. NAVAL VOLUNTEERS DEFENDING THE COVE REDOUBT WITH AN R.M.L. 9-POUNDER. Sketched by Lieutenant It. Iiennessy, of the 3rd Gordon Highlanders. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 31 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

LADYSMITH A STERN SIEGE

... . This is the first occasion on record when English troops have been bombarded for any length of time in an unfortified town by a civilised force equipped with ordnance of a modern pattern. Conse quently, for this, if for no other reason, this siege of Sir George White's gallant garrison by General Joubert and his Boer Army stands out conspicuously in the annals of nineteenth-century warfare. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1010 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

OUR LADIES' PAGES: FROCKS AND FURBELOWS

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. FROCKS AND FURBELOWS. That the purses of the Eternal Feminine have been depleted to a damaging extent during these latter weeks of Temptation and sempi ternal sales is a foregone conclusion. That they have also poured forth after-season torpor of January and July, so that, if an apologia be needed for our wholesale annexation of so-called unnecessaries, we, after all, can ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1378 | Page: Page 43, 44 | Tags: Illustrations 

SCENE IN BELEAGUERED LADYSMITH

... . A BURSTING SHELL DROPS AMONGST THE SIGNALLERS. Sketched by Lieutenant It. Ilennessy, of the 3rd Gordon Highlanders. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 21 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations