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SOME OF OUR WOUNDED OFFICERS

... . See next Ptttje.') MAJOR G. 0. WILSON, ROYAL HORSE GUARDS, REPORTED SERIOUSLY WOUNDED AT MAFEKING. Photo by Russell, Balcer Street, 17. MAJOR R. H. G. HEYGATE, OF THE BORDER REGIMENT, WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF THE TUGELA. Photo by Martin Jacolette, South Kensington. CAPTAIN H. L. REED, 7th BATTERY R.F.A., WOUNDED AT COLENSO AND -RECOMMENDED FOR THE VICTORIA CROSS. Photo by Chancellor Dublin. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 84 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SMALL TALK OF THE WEEK

... . The Princess of Wales, not content with the admirable work achieved by her apropos of the hospital-ship which bears her much-loved and honoured name, has just consented to accept the Presidency of a Committee which has been formed with a view to equipping and despatching to South Africa a base- hospital for the use of the Imperial Yeomanry. The Vice-Presidents, who are also taking an active ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 8614 | Page: Page 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THE HANDY MAN TO THE FRONT

... A NAVAL 12-POUNDER BEING FIRED BY JACK. HOW JACK SHAPES ASHORE From Photographs by Stephen Cribb, Southsea. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 23 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT

... . Much is expected of the British soldier. lie leaves snug quarters at a moment's notice to proceed to some far-off country, there to ensure the peace of a colony, or, maybe, to add another vast district to the possessions of the Crown. He may be called upon to depose a monarch or to help another to his rights, and, in his sturdy, straightforward manner, he goes and does it. On several ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 766 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Photographs 

A NEW TERROR FOR THE BOERS: MR. H. S. H. CAVENDISH AND HIS SCHEME

... A NEW TERROR FOR THE BOERS. MR. II. S. II. CAVENDISH AND HIS SCHEME. So you are raising a corps of experienced South African campaigners to act as scouts at the front,' Mr. Cavendish? I queried, after thoroughly examining his pleasant flat, which overlooks the Green Park, and which is the repository in part of his unique collection of African antelope, elephant, giraffe, buffalo, and lion ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1159 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

THEATRE GOSSIP

... . As fur as can be gleaned up to the present, our New Year with the two noughts does not seem likely to give us much in the shape of absolutely new plays. Both Mr. Tree and Messrs. Harrison and Maude are, and at such important theatres as Her Majesty's and the Haymarket, respectively content to rely upon revivals. Perhaps there is wisdom in this. At all events, it saves authors' fees at one of ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1363 | Page: Page 37, 38 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ROSE OF PERSIA AT THE SAVOY THEATRE

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THE NEW ZEALAND CUP MEETING

... TIIE NEW ZEALAND CUP MEETING. The picturesque course of the Canterbury Jockey Club ne\er looked prettier than it did for the Cup meeting of 1899. Despite the fact that the purists have again and again condemned the race course as the mightiest of all pitfalls for old and young alike, the sport of kings still flour ishes, and the totalizator, the New Zealand betting machine, still shows an ...

THE NEW ZEALAND CUP MEETING

... T H E NEW ZEALAND CUP MEETIN 0. As one after another of the Cup horses come out for the preliminary parade, Mala tua, Explosion, and Fulmen certainly looked the best, although Seahorse looked more like a horse when he had warmed up after his preliminary, and was on parade. He is one of the plain-headed, varminty kind, a bit split up, but is evidently game, and destined to do his sire credit. ...