Black & White Budget Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ... Sydney, with branches all over Queensland, and one of the best-known and highly respected firms in Australia. His house, Gowanbrae, on the Paramatta, is one of the finest in Australia. The hall is laid with white marble. The Colonel entertains largely, and is a keen Volunteer. He has done much to develop the Volunteer movement in Australia, having a private shooting range at which his regiment practise on the Saturday. In his house he has a museum of curios, particularly interesting himself in geology. Through his telescope on the tower you can read the time on a clock on the Town Hall at Sydney, twenty-four miles off. When Lord Carrington was Governor he frequently visited Colonel Burns at Paramatta. Lieutenant Mackay, of the Natal Carabineers, I Fifty of the Gordon Highlanders, under Captain whose portrait we publish on this page, was severely Towse, were surrounded near Thaba N'chu, during the wounded at the battle of Colenso, a bullet passing j recent operations, by 250 Boers, who demanded their surrender. For reply, the gallant Gordons made a charge and swept the enemv away at the point of the bayonet; but, unfortunately, Captain Towse was blinded in both eyes by the enemy's fire. It will be recalled by history readers that John, King of Bohemia, who had become blind in 1340, fell fighting at the Battle of Cressy on August 26th, 1346. By the recent appointment of Sir N. B. Chamberlain there are now eight British Field-Marshals, and the first ever promoted to that position in this copntry was, it may be noted, the Duke of Argyll, in 1736. The French title of Marshal dates from 1436, but it was Napoleon, about 1800, who brought it into full use. Of the twenty men who became his greatest Marshals, only a couple had received a fair education. Murat was a ...