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  2. COOK AT BOTANY BAY

    One hundred and sixty years have passed since Captain Cook discovered Botany Bay. His account of the discovery and of the week spent there is simply and charmingly told in ...

    Article : 1,443 words
  3. HAWKESBURY BRIDGE.

    The great engineering feats of the last twenty years have unfortunately overshadowed the great achievements of the engineers of the last century, who were confronted with ...

    Article : 1,254 words
  4. TONGARIRO'S HISTORY

    The first fall of snow this year is reported from Tongariro, where a palatial hotel stands in historic surroundings, near a group of mountains which are the setting for Maori ...

    Article : 708 words
  5. OUR FIRST LOCOMOTIVE.

    This engine, built by Messrs. R. Stephenson and Sons. of Newcastle-on-Tyne, arrived in New South Wales by the ship John Fielding on the 13th January, 1855, and was landed at Campbell's wharf. The engine was drawn from there by a team of twenty picked horses, belonging to Mr. Martin Gibbons, to a place then known as Slade's paddock, now the site of the Railway ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 228 words
  6. A TRIP TO CAIRO.

    We had been over four weeks at sea without touching at a port, and for days we had talked, and questioned, about a trip to Cairo. Our idea was to go overland by car from Suez to ...

    Article : 1,673 words
  7. A GREAT MANXMAN.

    There was living one hundred years ago in Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man, a reverend gentleman so fastidious in point of style that before answering an invitation ...

    Article : 1,212 words
  8. "MAX."

    Max was a mongrel, three-quarter Spaniel and the remainder Retriever breed. Max was ugly, black and white in colour; but what he didn't know was not worth knowing. ...

    Article : 699 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Out under a hill, Lived two little mice In a bran' new house So clean and nice; ...

    Article : 149 words
  10. BATHURST.

    To-morrow Bathurst will celebrate its 115th birthday, and a monument will be unveiled on the exact spot where, in 1815, Governor Macquarie caused a flag pole to be ...

    Article : 814 words
  11. HISTORIC RELICS.

    While on a holiday recently in Blackheath I was invited to a quaint little cottage in Tourmaline-street, beautifully kept by one William Bligh. When accepting the ...

    Article : 560 words
  12. RAIN.

    The rain was on the tree-tops, The rain was in the air; I went out walking, The rain was in my hair. ...

    Article : 79 words
  13. THE ESKIMO.

    Now, who would be an Eskimo Amid the Land of Ice and Snow? Of course it must be very nice To ride in sleds all made of ice, ...

    Article : 111 words
  14. MONKEYS.

    I do like monkeys— The big, fat monkeys, The small, round monkeys, Living at the Zoo. ...

    Article : 97 words
  15. THE MONUMENT, KURNELL.

    In the foreground is Cook's Rock, on which the exploret landed. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  16. SYDNEYSIDE SONGS.

    I met a little raindrop up on the Great Divide I said, "Good day. And what's the way ...

    Article : 232 words
  17. POTTED BIOGRAPHIES.

    "Great Anna, whom three realms obey," As Pope once put it, grandiosely, Is rarely called to mind to-day Except when, in a silly way, ...

    Article : 234 words
  18. THE FOSTER MOTHER.

    Some years ago I was the owner of a small Manchester terrier and a yellow-eyed black cat; both of whom gave birth to a family at about the same time. But while ...

    Article : 199 words
  19. "MY LOVE."

    You ask me what I love? I tell you true— 'Tis morning sunlight on the sparkling dew. The tiny stream, nursed in a mossy bed. The banking clouds, the sunset, fiercely red. ...

    Article : 152 words
  20. ABIDING BEAUTY.

    I shall plant a birch for you. You so white and slim; Let the seasons feed the root Round each marble limb. ...

    Article : 114 words
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