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...Western Australia. Climbing into a private car, he rolled for days through the vast desolation of the Yilgarn Goldfields, the Hampton Tableland and the red-soiled Nullarbor Plain to Adelaide (1.600 miles). There the Sussex picked him up. carried him 500 more miles to Melbourne. Six bay horses with postilion riders bore H. R. H. in the Victorian State carriage to Parliament House where he read a message from his father: "A country so richly endowed by Nature and with such great traditions can look to the future with confidence. The Queen joins in my prayer that Vic- toria will...
...Accordingly it was but natural that a sensation was produced last week when Lord Rosebery's early morning drive over Epsom Downs was suddenly cut short by the instantaneous and unexplained death of one of the horses attached to his carriage. The postilion who was riding the horse sprawled upon the road. The other horses snorted, plunged, backed, tangled up the harness. Aghast at the possible consequences to their aged master, the other postilions quieted the horses as soon as possible, rushed to assist the white-haired Victorian statesman from his carriage, bundled him safely into a motor, sighed with...
Boston Theatre-The Emma Juch Opera Co. in Postilion of Lonjumeau...
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