1914-11-03 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

The Pet Goat,

The most famous of regimental pota is the goat of the Royal Weleb Fusiliera, but the record | for service with the colours.be- longs to the late and much lamented Bob of the Royal Berk- shire Regiment. Bob-a dog- wasat Maiwand when his ragiment made its gallant stand to cover the guns, and he figures in the group of heroes pictured in ""The Last Elovea at Maiwand." He! came off with a bullet wound inf the back, and on returning to England had the honour of being decorated by Queen Victori

For the Fund. The general manager of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd.,

at

Miri, Sarawak, writos confirm- ing a report that the members of: the staff there are contributing, 5 per cent of their pay to the Prince of Wales' Fund during the continuance of the war.

Ho anye-A numbor of the members", of the stuff bero have undertaken to contributo during the con- tinuance of the war 5. per cont. of their salaries and others leaser

m monthly, whilst we have received contributione amounting to over $500 for the fund, Sarawak Gazette.

Handshaking.

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German Prize Ships.

Court in Prize, at Sydney, on At a sitting of the Admiralty October 5, applications were to be made in respect to condemnation of the following German vessels, at present in Sydney, aa prizes of

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What of the man with the gun? September the first should bring

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But where are the squire and

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If success attends the movement inaugurated in Washington to stop the practice of shaking hands with the President's wife; every fatare "Lady of the White House will have good reason to be thank fal. The headshaking ordeal is the worst a President of the Taited States is called upon to endure, war: **** and this ordeal is to a large ex- tent shared by his wife. Unless Sumatra... Wilhofer. they learn how to grip firmly and

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Carl R. Vinnen......Sandvei.

as he's Wotan--་་་་་་་ 1་་་ Stolzoniela.......Altmappen. And his son has gone out with

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valued approximately at £20,000,- Oas of the troopers who made 000, Throwing in the Crown the journey said that the country Prince and Prince Henry of was the roughest he had ever Prussia, the principal members seen. There were no roads. Falea. of the Hobenzollern, family own lili, on the other side, was reached property valued at approximately at the end of the fourth day. On £25,000,000.

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ordered to get away without and there were great feet, from the land-locked harbor of delay. He succeeded in steaming The North Coast district of followed by dances. The cuisine New South Wales has within re- cent years received its best ad-5 particularly good, as it in- Moji on the night of August 7.

cluded pork and chicken six

On reaching Honolula absolute vertisement from the squabbles times a day, bread-fruit, and other silence was maintained by the that have taken place in the State delectable if mysterious dishes, staff of 14 German officere in the Assembly regarding the construc-Still," said the trooper, "we Prinz Waldemar concerning tion of its railway. It is the were glad to get back to English events that might have happened State's chief cattle-raising district food. On travel we have to swim daring the time which elapsed and, on that account, is interest-all the rivers, and our wet clothes from departing from Moji until ing enough, but to the holiday dry on our backs. We have done arrival at Honolulu. Asked why maker, while it differs from some 120 miles in the four days, a fast passenger liner like the of the more thickly-populated carrying 150 rounds of ammo Prinz Waldemar would require places nearer Sydney, it offera nition, and rations for two days. 32 days to cover the distance plenty of attractions of the sort The Samoan horses are very ordinarily steamed by American that can best be appreciated by small, and they are not fit for the and Japanese vessels in abont the man who likes to keep on the work" The trooper added that one half that time the Germana move. The man who wants a mosquitoes were playing havoc from the commanding officer to "lazy" will probably choose other with the men's faces. Work was the quartermasters simply shrug- ground: he who desires to see plentiful, and there were two big ged their shoulders and smiled. something of the State's resources

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