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  2. THE MAN FROM KEW.

    Last Tuesday was the 130th anniversary of the death of George Caley, a botanist explorer who actively assisted in the exploration and scientific ...

    Article : 1,154 words
  3. THE GHOSTS OE KINGS.

    Almost on the eve of the Royal visit to Washington, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has chosen to hint that the White House may be haunted. It seems that ...

    Article : 1,071 words
  4. THE CREST OF THE RIDGE.

    A bush-lover's photograph, taken from Burning Palms track during week-end wanderings in the Stanwell Park region, South Coast. Bald Hill is in the distance. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  5. MEN WHO MADE AUSTRALIA.—2. JOHN MACARTHUR.

    [In this, the second of a series of biographical studies of "Men Who Made Australia," Professor Scott, the distinguished Australian historian and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, graphically describes the tempestuous career of John ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,303 words
  6. A PLAY THAT CAME TRUE.

    Toward the end of Ernst Toller's play, "Hoppla!" one of the characters, Karl Thomas, persecuted and driven to despair, lies in a prison cell. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 880 words
  7. "D'YE KEN JOHN PEEL?"

    At the Sandy Bay cemetery, Hobart, there is a freestone tombstone with this inscription:— "Sacred to the Memory of John ...

    Article : 443 words
  8. CASE BOOK OF AN AUSTRALIAN CARICATURIST.

    Some years as a newspaper cartoonist has brought one into close personal contact with many world-renowned people. I have had some hair-raising experiences and others which have been intensely amusing. Some others have almost ended in tragedy. It would take a volume ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,071 words
  9. THUNDERBOLT'S GRAVE.

    On May 25, 1870, Thunderbolt committed a robbery near Uralla and was pursued by Constable Walker, of the Uralla police. The bushranger fired at the constable, who ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 167 words
  10. BAREFOOT HARRY.

    Mr. Alec F. Dunn, Mudgee, writes:— There seems to be more than one story as to how Harry Rice, better known as "Barefoot Harry," came to discard boots as a young man ...

    Article : 292 words
  11. PROSPECTOR.

    He went at dusk, in that dread time When sinks and bleeds and dies The sun, that now In some new clime. Up from the night's sepulchral slime, ...

    Article : 66 words
  12. TASMAN'S BIRTHPLACE.

    Mr. Prank Clune. Vaucluse, writes:— In an article, "The Man the Dutch Forgot," Mr. Stanley Brogden asks: "Did Captain Cook really know of Tasman's voyages? Were ...

    Article : 363 words
  13. OLD PARRAMATTA.

    An early nineteenth century painting of Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta, where John Macarthur, who received the land grant in 1793, laid the foundation of the Australian Wool industry. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 30 words
  14. THE OLD GARRICK.

    Mr. E. Breen, Kensington, writes:— The Garrick Theatre was built for a Mr. Scholer, the lessees being Messrs. F. E. Hiscocks and W. J. Wilson. The late Mr. H. ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. THE MOPOKE.

    When day dissolves in funeral flames, And dusk a regency proclaims Till night in kingly robe and crown Upon his dim domain looks down, ...

    Article : 90 words
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