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  2. A PIONEER'S JOURNAL

    Seventeen years ago there died in Adelaide, at the great age of eighty-five, a wellknown citizen of that city in the person of Mr. Thomas Frost, a native of Leamington. ...

    Article : 1,756 words
  3. THE POETRY MARKET.

    Some weeks ago I read that an Australian poet, the high standard of whose work[?] is recognised in literary circles, had published his poems himself for private distribution[?] by ...

    Article : 1,267 words
  4. PANORAMA OF HUME DAM FROM NEW SOUTH WALES BANK.

    THIS GIGANTIC DAM, WHICH IS NOW EXPECTED TO BE FINISHED BY 1930, WILL CONTAIN 2,000,000 ACRE FEET OF WATER, AND THE AREA OF ITS LAKE WILL BE FOUR OR FIVE TIMES THE AREA OF SYDNEY HARBOUR. IT WILL BE THE SECOND LARGEST RESERVOIR IN THE WORLD. THE NORMAL STREAM OF THE MURRAY WAS DIVERTED INTO A NEW CHANNEL WHILE ONE-HALF OF THE FOUNDATIONS WAS LAID. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 75 words
  5. PROSPECTING.

    The announcement that the Federal Government has decided to undertake an extensive survey of the mineral resources of the Commonwealth by means of what is known ...

    Article : 1,619 words
  6. FOR THE CHILDREN. GOOD-BYE, OCEAN!

    Goodbye, lovely ocean, I'm going back to town. Good-bye, pretty seagulls, goodbye, No more can I paddle and play on the beach, Nor climb to the lighthouse so high. ...

    Article : 101 words
  7. RABAUL SCHOOLBOYS.

    In speaking of the schools the Administration has established for the education of the native children in the Mandated Territories. Mr. C. W. Marr (Minister for Home and ...

    Article : 882 words
  8. THE INNISKILLINGS.

    King George has approved of the alliance of the Ninth Australian Light Borse Regiment with the Fifth I[?]skilling Dragoon Guards.—(Cable news from London July [?].) ...

    Article : 1,116 words
  9. HUME DAM.

    It was announced last month after the Federal Minister for Works and Railways had inspected the progress of the work at the Hume Weir. that the reservoir would be ...

    Article : 508 words
  10. THE MODERN CHILD.

    I wish the grown-up folk I know Would one and all contrive To rea[?]se that I'm not three, But fourteen weeks past five; ...

    Article : 143 words
  11. TOPSY-TURVY.

    They say a bad boy, by way of a joke, Has mixed all the rhymes in the Nursery Book; So how will the dear old songs be known, Broken and scattered and upside down? ...

    Article : 213 words
  12. NEW RICHES.

    "Plant Hunting" is a splendidly illustrated work in two volumes, by Professor E. H. Wilson, keeper of the famous Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. ...

    Article : 694 words
  13. A REMINISCENCE.

    Seventy years ago to-day. viz., on August 20, 1857, the Dunbar was wrecked at the Gap. The writer distinctly remembers the event, and the widespread public excitement ...

    Article : 449 words
  14. BINOCULAR PASSAGE.

    "Poor old Mr. Smith, I wish I were big enough to help him," said Alec[?] as he looked through his father's binoculars at the lam[?] old man who ran the dalry next door, and ...

    Article : 563 words
  15. AMERICAN LAWMAKERS.

    That making laws for the United States is still chiefly in the bonds of the Nordies, as it was in revolutionary days, is shown by a racial study made by Frank [?] Babbott, ...

    Article : 192 words
  16. PASSING ON.

    What though the [?]onds are running low, [?] And soon it will be time to go. I've lived my life! For pain and pleasure have been mine, [?] ...

    Article : 210 words
  17. STAR RISE.

    Who has been fortunate enough during the last few weeks to watch Sirius rising above the sea, while dawn was yet two hours and more away? Once the beauty of it fell to ...

    Article : 176 words
  18. THE ANSWER.

    There's a wind blowing in, blowing in from the sea; There's a land, there's a land where I'm longing to be; ...

    Article : 101 words
  19. ON THE HILL.

    The shadows falling to and fro, Like mighty shuttles sweep and flow, With witchcraft in their aery flight; And sea, beneath us, once so bright. ...

    Article : 101 words
  20. STEALTH.

    Softly, make no sound, but gently fall Over the broken gate and along the wall. Gather your gown of grey about your feet, Treading with sandals of mist where the ...

    Article : 85 words
  21. THE DOME IN THE CITY.

    from the life of busy man, Rising from his toil and duty. Springs his hope, thought wreathed in mist, Great—with heaven behind in beauty. ...

    Article : 32 words
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