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  2. NOTABLE DAYS

    WILLIAM IL, King of England, and, perhaps, better known as "Rufus," was slain by an arrow when hunting in the New Forest on August 2, 1100. ...

    Article : 107 words
  3. AMUSEMENTS

    PLACE a threepenny piece on the table, and propose to a friend to lift it off without touching either it or the table. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 122 words
  4. FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS

    SENIOR.—First Prize: Cecily White, Terrace-street, Newmarket. Subject: Value of Fairy Stories. SENIOR.—Second Prize: Gladys H. Ford, Rockles. Lochnagar, Central Queensland. Subject: Archimedes, the Great. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 67 words
  5. THE GIRL AND THE BLOCKS

    ALL readers will be interested in, this problem, which is a very ingenious one. To solve it, the following questions must be correctly ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 158 words
  6. GREAT EVENTS IN OUR HISTORY

    Both John M'Kinlay and William Landsborough, whose exploration work is described hereunder, were men of courage and fortitude, and although their journeys were, perhaps, not as colourful as those of men of the calibre of Eyre, Sturt, Stuart, Burke, and Wills, their ...

    Article : 80 words
  7. AUGUST 3.

    RICHARD ARKWRIGHT was born in Preston in 1732, the youngest of 13 children. He learned the trade of a barber, but, becoming interested in the ...

    Article : 195 words
  8. SENIOR.—FIRST PRIZE.

    WE are first carried into the realms of romance and literature by fairy stories and nursery rhymes, and we welcome this introduction. Children listen ...

    Article : 1,180 words
  9. JOHN M'KINLAY

    JOHN M'KINLAY was born at Sandbank, on the Clyde, in 1819. He first came to New South Wales in 1836,to live with his uncle, a wealthy ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 537 words
  10. WILLIAM LANDSBOROUGH

    WILLIAM LANDSBOROUGH, explorer, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and received a good education at Irvine. After he came to Australia he ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 335 words
  11. BEADING MADE EASY.

    TRACE on transparent paper a series of fine parallel lines about 25 to the inch, and then a second series of similar lines crossing the first at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 230 words
  12. SENIOR.—SECOND PRIZE.

    TWENTY years before Caesar sighted the white cliffs of Britain his great but false friend. Cicero, was wandering amid the ruins of Syracuse, the ...

    Article : 725 words
  13. AUGUST 4.

    HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, a Danish novelist, poet, and writer of fairy talcs, died on this date is the year 1875. ...

    Article : 145 words
  14. AUGUST 5.

    ALL of us are rightly proud of the British Navy. History rings with the names of sea heroes who have helped to make Britain "a land of ...

    Article : 159 words
  15. PUZZLES

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 words
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    Neighbour: "Oh, would you mind putting your scraps out for our cat while we are away; but please don't put yourself out." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  17. AUGUST 6.

    THIS date is a great day in the history of literature. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, who was born on August 6, 1809, was one of the ...

    Article : 214 words
  18. MORE TO CRACK

    A grocer bought a quantity of tea from a wholesome dealer. He sold some at a profit of three-farthings a pound, and the rest (three times as ...

    Article : 188 words
  19. WEEKLY ESSAYS

    This competition (for which book prizes will be awarded) will be continued. Senior and junior competitors to select their own subjects. The competition closes on Saturday, ...

    Article : 85 words
  20. TALK ON HEALTH

    WHEN I note the division of labour between men and women I often feel sympathy for the monotony of the class of work which falls to ...

    Article : 567 words
  21. AUGUST 7.

    DIEGO VELASQUEZ, the greatest of all Spanish painters, died in 1660. He was a favourite of Philip IV of Spain, who made him Court Painter. ...

    Article : 113 words
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  23. AUGUST 8.

    ON this date in 1881, the Transvaal, in South Africa, was ceded to the Boers by the British, who had annexed it four years earlier owing to serious ...

    Article : 125 words
  24. ANSWERS TO QUERIES

    "Clearance" (Brisbane).—I am afraid you mistook the tenor of what I wrote. My argument was that, if a watch was out of order, the owner took it for repair to one ...

    Article : 2,918 words
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  26. Advertising

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