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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 21, 1902
Page
2
Advertisement from Sydney item for Wood the Optician at 299 George Street, top of Hunter Street, offering eyesight testing through the post. Includes address and business position in city.
A nostalgic, humorous reminiscence on royal loyalty from New Zealand to Australia and Britain. The narrator recalls viewing royal processions, meeting royal figures, and sharing vivid anecdotes with family, neighbors, and fellow subjects, reflecting on monarchy's reach and the symbolism of empire.
A vivid, satirical piece about ping pong in a home setting, detailing bustling rooms filled with spectators, shifting furniture, and comic chaos as players and onlookers chase a white ball. The narrator recalls a midnight scene and contrasts refined interiors with the racket of a raucous game, ending in a wistful farewell to ping pong.
Marlborough House will not be ready for the Prince and Princess of Wales for at least a year. While being stripped for the King and Queen’s move to Buckingham Palace, more work than expected was found. Décor from the sixties is seen as unsuitable and a lighter, newer style is under consideration per the Onlooker.
G C Johnson of Petersham corrects an Evening News error about Lieutenant Hobby. The piece surveys St Peter’s Cemetery Richmond and its weathered stones for Thomas Hobby and many notable 19th century colonists, detailing family vaults for the Rouse, Bowman, Dight, Richards, Faithfull, Pitts, Onuses, Palmers, Seymours, Towns, Newcomens, Horderns, and the Rev John Elder. It notes ages from 70 to 108 among interred, and shares several quaint inscriptions and a possible marine, Josh Hobson.
A fragmented reminiscence lists memorials in Richmond Cemetery including Marine Thomas Spencer 1821, William Harrington 1837, and a Margaret Catchpole note. It recalls church registers, a monument to Edward Horden, executions for theft, and the 1910 1914 era of St Peter's Church burial ground with Rev J Howsil Price as present incumbent.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland owns valuable Japanese chips and china. The King leads by example in church responses. Tickets to the Chapel Royal are highly prized when the Court is in London. The afternoon visits include SS Anne's Soho or All Saints Margaret attest with expert choral singing.
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