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  2. ACROSS AUSTRALIA.

    Many are the difficulties endured by the residents of Northern Australia in regard to transport, and the crushing cost of cartage of goods and necessaries of life. Transit to or ...

    Article : 1,302 words
  3. A GREAT SEASON.

    War among the roses began more than a month ago, when Flying Colours, one of the many beautiful harbingers of spring, awakened one morning feeling that the time had ...

    Article : 978 words
  4. NELSON'S FAMOUS SHIP, THE VICTORY, OFF PORTSMOUTH IN 1828.

    The picture is reproduced from a sketch by E. W. Cook, the leading marine artist of that period. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  5. PASS OF VICTORIA.

    The passing of a hundred years makes timely the recalling of some facts relating to the work of Thomas Livingston Mitchell in planning and directing his "pass of Mount ...

    Article : 1,342 words
  6. HORATIO NELSON.

    The story of Trafalgar has been told countless times, and is, to a certain extent, familiar to most of us, but much still remains to be recounted of the great admiral whose ...

    Article : 1,385 words
  7. TROUT FISHING

    The severe winter experienced in all parts of the State should have a good effect on trout, as all members of the Salmo family just revel in ice-cold water; so much so that ...

    Article : 744 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN. GOLDEN CURLS.

    I saw some silkworms spinning In the early morning sun, And' as they spun the silken threads The sunbeams kissed each one. ...

    Article : 145 words
  9. "SNOWBALL."

    Snowball was the ugly duckling of the family. His sisters and brother were Persian, and he was just an ordinary common or garden kitten—surely a changeling. The future ...

    Article : 452 words
  10. AN OLD PEAR TREE

    Last week I walked in an old garden in a nearby suburb where was a most entrancing sight, a magnificent old pear tree in full bloom. I came upon it suddenly as I turned ...

    Article : 440 words
  11. CANONISE THE KOOKABURRA!

    St. George may have skewered a dragon And rescued a beauteous maid, But was it a feat fit to brag on When he was so charmingly paid? ...

    Article : 110 words
  12. "LET THE BRIGHT SERAPHIM."

    During the services at the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in connection with the Constitutional Convention and General Synod, both on Sunday and on Tuesday, the anthem ...

    Article : 615 words
  13. BOOKS IN BED.

    I like to cuddle in bed at night, After I should have put out the light, With a nice fat book and a candle or two— I ask of this world nothing better to do. ...

    Article : 140 words
  14. DOORS.

    Doors! Church doors, school doors, conservatorium and wireless studio doors, lounge-room doors, kitchen doors, bedroom doors, and many, many other doors, all of different types, ...

    Article : 278 words
  15. ANCIENT MARINERS.

    As the ferry drew in to old Cremorne wharf the passengers saw the capsized sculling boat in the water. It rose and fell with the wash of the waves on the rocks. The little boy ...

    Article : 451 words
  16. MY ONE DESIRE.

    I want to go back to the bush again, To the bush, with its lonely skies. I want to be back with those bushland men. With the loneliness in their eyes. ...

    Article : 99 words
  17. NELSON'S FOUDROYANT.

    You know where the leadsman's line runs out in the hurrying eddy's swirl, A mile from the signal-streak of foam that marks where the breakers curl; ...

    Article : 333 words
  18. THE COCKTAIL.

    This very fashionable drink of the moment is by no means as modern as people think. The origin of its name is said to be an Aztec word. ...

    Article : 184 words
  19. THE SNOWY RIVER, FAMOUS FOR ITS TROUT FISHING.

    This angler is fishing near the source of the Snowy, in the Kosciusko district. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 22 words
  20. THE GREAT DIVIDE.

    'I'm going, matey, never more shall you and I Together down the creek and through the valley ride. [?]here golden wattles droop beneath the vast ...

    Article : 210 words
  21. JAIRUS'S DAUGHTER.

    Now I know, now I believe The tale of Jairus's daughter: How that she did receive New life, when all men thought her ...

    Article : 117 words
  22. VICTORY.

    Surely our fathers saw Excellent days; Nights of wonder and awe. Mornings of praise. ...

    Article : 68 words
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