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  2. BEAUTY OF PALMS.

    This is another of our slender graceful palms which, like the Livistina and the Kentia palms, has not been used to any great extent in New South Wales for decorative ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 836 words
  3. RIVER EXPLORATION

    One of the most stirring messages by the late Mr Rudyard Kipling is the poem, "The Explorer." "Beyond the edge of cultivation," he says, there is "something hidden," and ...

    Article : 1,608 words
  4. ROBERT CAMPBELL.

    Shakespeare's adage, "One man in his time plays many parts," was perhaps never more applicable than when applied to the versatile and honourable career of Robert ...

    Article : 1,281 words
  5. TAMING NEW GUINEA.

    In 1884, only 52 years ago, when the German flag was hoisted at Madang, not one white man resided in New Guinea. Next year 65 white men came. Several soon ...

    Article : 1,315 words
  6. ST. MARY REDCLIFF CHURCH, BRISTOL.

    St. Mary Redcliff, the poet Chatterton's church, was described by Queen Elizabeth as the goodliest parish church in England. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 25 words
  7. OLIVER AND THE PEANUT.

    Oliver stepped deliberately right in the centre of granny's neatest flower bed and kicked savagely at a rose bush. He decided he had never spent such a dull holiday, but father ...

    Article : 375 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Dearest mother and dear father, And brother Richard, tooI'm having such a lovely time Up here with Auntie Sue. ...

    Article : 125 words
  9. WHO WILL RULE IT?

    Several times of late it has been stated in the cables that soon there must arise the question of a redistribution of lands suitable for colonisation-in other words, a ...

    Article : 633 words
  10. FALKLAND ISLANDS.

    Early in January this year the Argentine Government issued an attractive set of postage stamps, and the stamp of one peso value shows a map of South America. The ...

    Article : 970 words
  11. MOLLIE'S VISIT TO KOALA PARK.

    I was ten years old on Tuesday, And what do you think I got? A doll, a pair of Sunday gloves, And cards—oh, such a lot. ...

    Article : 202 words
  12. FREDERICK.

    Frederick was a wild New Zealand pig. When the men from the farm went hunting in the hills for the boar, they brought back Frederick, very young, much alive and ...

    Article : 172 words
  13. "CONTRARINESS."

    The moon is just a naughty boy Who does not like to go to bed, I know, because this very morn I woke and saw his cheeky head ...

    Article : 83 words
  14. THERE ARE OTHERS.

    Three weeks ago he looked at us through the wire netting of a pen in the dogs' home. A forlorn little fox terrier whose brown eyes were eloquent with appeal that said: "Take ...

    Article : 108 words
  15. DICKENS CENTENARY.

    On March 31, 1836, the first of the "Papers" dealing with the adventures of Mr. Pickwick and his club-mates made its appearance. The irrepressible Sam Weller, Bob Sawyer, Mr. ...

    Article : 390 words
  16. THE WRITING DESK.

    To-day there is a friendliness so new About my kind, old-fashioned writing desk, For, on its woodwork and upon its brass, A pattern has been worked by baby hands, ...

    Article : 46 words
  17. AN INFORMAL PICTURE OF THE KING.

    This photograph was taken in 1919 during the first visit of King Edward (then Prince of Wales) to Western Canada ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 28 words
  18. BRISTOL'S PRIDE.

    Bristol is often called—and rightly so—"the city of churches." In Norman and medieval times many wonderful churches were erected for the worship and Rlory of God. ...

    Article : 371 words
  19. SUNSET AT FORSTER.

    As I sit in front of our camp, on the hill below the pilot station, and look across Wallis Lake, past Tuncurry, in the distance, I see the mountains in a haze of blue. Then ...

    Article : 176 words
  20. SING I WOULD.

    Sing I would—and willingly, Happy only to obey— If a theme would come to me If a theme would come to me ...

    Article : 88 words
  21. "SERMONS IN STONES."

    Grey, silent monitor, tapering to the skies, Dwarfing the giant eucalypts that reach Scare to thy knee: more eloquent to teach Oft than the preacher's self how man must ...

    Article : 113 words
  22. A MEDITATION.

    The youth in strength and pride, Scant reverence pays to Time; The moments, ceaseless, glide— The man is in his prime. ...

    Article : 64 words
  23. ANXIETY.

    Oh, heart, I am afraid; despair Upon me like a burden lies. I saw, when faith might have been there, Doubt peering from her lovely eyes. ...

    Article : 34 words
  24. A PICTURE.

    Flung there by the boisterous wind, The tall tree's crisp brown leaves are etched Against the diamond-brilliant skyA picture fairy hands have sketched. ...

    Article : 30 words
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