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  2. CONDITIONS IN INDIA.

    For the first three years of the reform scheme in India, the extremists, Swarajists or Non-co-operators, as they are variously called, remained outside the Legislatures. ...

    Article : 1,484 words
  3. A WORLD BENEFACTOR.

    Among the exhibits for display in the special Canberra Court at the British Empire Exhibition are a treasured few which concern the life and work of William James Farrer, ...

    Article : 1,705 words
  4. A GREAT LIBRARY.

    Oriental specialists should be greatly interested in the copious array of works regarding the antiquities of Egypt, Ethiopia, Assyria, etc., contained in the library of the late Sir ...

    Article : 1,197 words
  5. THE SUPREME COURT, SYDNEY.

    The first Supreme Court to be held at Sydney was opened by Chief Justice Forbes on May 17, 1824, at the Georgian School House, Castlereagh-street, the new charter of his ...

    Article : 1,641 words
  6. THE OLD FRONT LINE.

    "But certainly, monsieur, I know Crois du Bac. Do I not live there? No, I know nothing of the lady who lived in the big house with small twin girls. I have no knowledge ...

    Article : 1,418 words
  7. CENTENARY OF SUPREME COURT.

    The constitution of the Supreme Court 100 years ago preceded the actual completion of the existing court building at the corner of King and Elizabeth streets. The building, although the foundation-stone was laid in 1820, was not completed until 1828, and it was not until January of the following year that it was occupied. The building originally had its principal entrance in Elizabeth-street. Up to about 1840 the ground floor of the Supreme Court consisted of two ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 22 words
  8. THE CUCKOO'S SECRET.

    Comparatively recently (1922) Edgar Chance, an English bird-lover, offered £500 to anyone who could prove that the cuckoo laid its egg on the ground and afterwards took it up in ...

    Article : 783 words
  9. A MEMORIAL.

    It is to be regretted that, in his masterly "Life of Matthew Flinders," Professor Ernest Scott does not reproduce a photograph of the only memorial known to stand of Flinders' ...

    Article : 615 words
  10. JOSEPH CONRAD.

    The full story of Joseph Conrad's connection with Australia has never been written, as but scanty information has been available. The writer of the ...

    Article : 819 words
  11. MEMORIAL TO NAVIGATORS.

    VIEW OF THE BANDSTAND AT WOLLONGONG, COMMEMORATING THE LANDING OF BASS AND FLINDERS IN 1796. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 19 words
  12. THE SAAR.

    A number of questions on the administration in the Saar and in Danzig arose at the March meeting of the League of Nations Council. The two principal Saar questions were the ...

    Article : 339 words
  13. EQUAL TO METOL.

    A new photographic developer, at least equal to the world-famous Metol of German origin, is the result of recent research by Prof. Walter G. Christiansen at the Harvard ...

    Article : 162 words
  14. DIET OF MOSQUITOS.

    Malarial mosquitos have a preferential diet, according to the findings just reported from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene. Mosquitos studied in their native haunts in ...

    Article : 145 words
  15. OILING DRIFTING SANDS.

    Oil is being used to prevent sand from being drifted by the wind across the tracks of the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Co., U.S.A., and impeding or even ...

    Article : 106 words
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