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| Accession number | 912L : 2124/6 |
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POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS . No. of Telegram . Aube Braz & SPOTTISWOODE , London . If the accuracy of an Inland Telegram be doubted , the telegram will be repeated on payment of half the amount originally paid for its transmission , any fraction of 1d . less than d . being reckoned as d .; and if it be found that there was any inaccuracy , the amount paid for repetition will be refunded . Special conditions are applicable to the repetition of Foreign Telegrams . £ 8. d . 1 : 13/10/96 Handed in at the 11.25-4 TO Brosa bobin Wymarks of antred je from Just Bravo George the fourth best love Charles the Mr Bruen requests the pleasure of • Hon . Nous Forrester Colerio Captain Company at the marriage of his daughter Helen with Major Charles Bishop . 2.th Lancers Tuesday , August 11th . at Painstown Church .. at 2.15 . o'clock . and afterwards at Oak Park on Oak Park Carlow . Charges to pay N.B. - This Form must accompany any inquiry made respecting this Telegram .. COLVIN . - On the 11th inst . , at Wymarks , Henfileld , the Hon . Mrs. Forrester Colvin , of a son . R.S.V.P a / 35 / .. Office at SYSTEM A marriage has been arranged between Captain F. J. Dalgety , late 15th ( the King's ) Hussars , of Lockerley Hall , Hants , and the Hon . Pauline C. M Clintock Bun bury , youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Rathdonnell . FORS Sy Received here at ở RY CAVALRY'S Office Stamp . our Great To Casam 5. 5. Collein Chancers . 11 3 Gunge Shack Гваций 3 The De received the news of your domestie Lappenen mite a pleasure whicle is secunde . only to geur dere , and our com . gratulammies Jeelde to hour in homecliness , lagally and inclini ( your Abwidelen Thwensen Friendrezung 11 9TH LANCERS GYMKHANA Vagong silanthe SATURDAY , January 16th , 1897 and MC to yo ACOL GOUGH . 2 to 10 A PIETERMARITZBURG RACECOURSE . 01 16 390e ( ^ 1150 TO BE HELD ON TC odt molten w TUR IT ASETON h ON THE Stewards : MAJOR LITTLE . CAPT . LORD D. COMPTON . Starter : -W . BAXTER , ESQ . ( 9th Lancers . ) Measurer : MAJOR FROST . Judge and Clerk of the Scales : -CAPT . DIBBLE . Hon . Secretary - CAPT . G. HENRY ( 9th Lancers . ) ...... CAPT . LUND . .... CONDITIONS . 10Five Shillings Entrance Fee for each Race and Five Shillings extra for Starters . Ten entries for each race , or it may be re - opened . All entries close to the Hon . Sec . , January 9th , at 11 p.m. b If the Sweepstakes in any race exceed £ 19 , the surplus to go to the Fund . ed in all races , when not otherwise stated , ponies 14.1 to carry 12st . 7lbs . 6lbs . allowed for every half inch . In any case not stated , Rules the same as Natal Turf Club . Ponies to be measured by Major Frost , at 10 a.m. , on Mondays and Thursdays . For Races open to Officers of the Garrison , Officers of the English Regular Army alone are qualified . If called on by January 14th , at mid - day , any owner must prove his qualification to run in the 2nd race ; if disqualified from running , he forfeits his Entrance Fee . ys over the Scientific Frontier . 15 M.P. That own . spectacle of Russia , with elbows leaning on the Hindoo Kush , staring rudely at blush ing India , BOBS ' blood began to boil . Commenced series of marching and counter - marching that seemed preliminary ned . to a fresh start for KANDAHAR . After various reconnaissances and feints , the object of his march became apparent . He bore straight down on the Gangway , at corner whereof Lord COLVILLE sat . Arrived ouse the lam ffort but ight there , he faced about , his rear - guard press lear , ing heavily on the enemy from Culross . COLVILLE , the gentlest mannered peer of Parliament , became painfully conscious of his own legs . He must put them somewhere , and their most natural position seemed in front of him as he sat . But if he left them there , the steady rearward motion of the invading force would lead to unpleasant consequences . So , with a strategy that would have extorted admiration from the captor of Umbeyla had his back not been turned , COLVILLE slowly swung his limbs round till they were landed in safe quar ters in the Gangway . Thus BOBS , having dislodged the enemy , concluded at the corner seat below the Gangway the speech he had commenced by the Front Cross Bench . Business done . - Lord ROBERTS OF KANDA HAR , championing the Forward Policy , gets considerably " forrader . " IT . pha floor from lery , " 3 ay , nted have BOBS ly a tpari ected end ents . I the cried was MARCH 19 , 1898. ] d by COF ently Cross front by Uno laurt , av warvu UIO CICIAD vaster : on the left , by the bench below Gangway . At corner seat of this bench sat Lord COLVILLE ; a happy position , with the speaker of the evening in full view a couple of paces off . irst twenty minutes Bor followed ordinary Parliamentary practice of sticking close to seat from which he had risen . But what with contemplation of two hundre d thousand fighting - men on the North - West Frontier ; what with admiration of ROBERT SANDEMAN in Baluchistan ; what with pained reflection on some incidents of Lord RIPON'S Viceroyalty ; and what with the |
