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  2. THE WOOL DERBY.

    There is something about a championship race which invariably makes an irresistible appeal to the sporting instincts of mankind. Thus we see huge throngs of people present ...

    Article : 1,355 words
  3. IN THE DROVING DAYS.

    It was in 1822 that Archibald Bell, a son of Lieutenant Archibald Bell, of "Belmont," a little up stream along the Hawkesbury River from Richmond, went west over the ...

    Article : 623 words
  4. VIEW OF PITTWATER.

    TO-DAY'S CELEBRATION MAKES THIS VIEW INTERESTING, AND THE SPECIAL ARTICLE ON THIS PAGE SHOWS THAT GOVERNOR PHILLIP DESCRIBED IT AS "THE FINEST PIECE OF WATER I EVER SAW." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 31 words
  5. PITTWATER.

    During his five years' Governorship of New South Wales, Captain Arthur Phillip played many parts. Not only was he the head of the Government of a colony thousands of miles ...

    Article : 1,382 words
  6. THE SOUTHERN ROAD. Highway of History and Romance.

    [Not long before his death the late Mr. T. W. Heney wrote, for a woman's club, of which Mrs. Fenton Spencer, of Strat[?]field, was an official[?] a paper on the history and romance ...

    Article : 78 words
  7. (I.) THE ROAD TO-DAY.

    It so happened that living near to a section of the Great Southern-road we made many journeys along it and saw the dilapidation and decay of the old towns, houses, inns, ...

    Article : 1,422 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN. SHOPPING SONG.

    I don't like shopping with mummy, Up and down the street; When all I hear is "Careful, now," And all I see is feet. ...

    Article : 78 words
  9. FOREVER ENGLAND.

    All along the top of the ridge they stretch for mile after mile. The men who made them, more than half a century ago, had spacious ideas, and each garden covers many ...

    Article : 1,182 words
  10. TEDDIE.

    Teddie was a baby native bear that I managed to keep for some time on a station in Queensland. I wonder how many people know that these ...

    Article : 956 words
  11. THE TALKIES.

    Last week I saw "High Treason" and realised how enormously the talkies have developed in a year, and how desperately far they remain from any appreciation of their ...

    Article : 1,190 words
  12. THE UNINVITED GUEST.

    Once there was a little girl, Patricia was her name; And when upon a day in June Her seventh birthday came: ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. GULGONG.

    "Like an old man sitting in the sun." I do not know when I first heard these words, which bring to my mind, not the scarred faces artists so love to paint, but the picture ...

    Article : 580 words
  14. JOHN'S PHILOSOPHY.

    "Come and have your face washed," Auntie called to John; "Take your dirty smock off. And get a clean one on." ...

    Article : 86 words
  15. MRS. WILDKIT.

    She was small and mild and tabby, distrusting everyone, yet plainly anxious to accept hospitality. The cook tried her with various saucer of milk, but they were passed over ...

    Article : 424 words
  16. A KITCHEN PRAYER.

    Last Saturday on this page we gave a [?]oem entitled "A Kitchen Prayer," signed "By a Kitchenmaid." It should have been explained that it was published in "The Australasian," ...

    Article : 91 words
  17. CAIRN FOR PITTWATER.

    This cairn has been erected on the Pittwater shore between Palm Beach and Barren[?]joey to comme[?]morate Governor Phillip's naming of the water March 3, 17[?]. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 25 words
  18. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—I do not know whether the poem "A Kitchen Prayer," by "A Kitchenmaid," in last Saturdays "Herald" (21/9/[?]29) claims to be original. In a seven-verse poem called "The ...

    Article : 250 words
  19. COOGEE PHANTASY.

    I wonder, If we sailed across the sea, To yonder cloud that reaches past the Cape, Its treasure would be there for you and me— ...

    Article : 162 words
  20. THE PEACE OF ARALUEN.

    There are paddocks green in Araluen, With bushes wide, For birds to hide From naughty children busy at play. ...

    Article : 95 words
  21. THE LONG STREETS.

    Adown the street of Castlereagh, The trams all run the self-same way; And maybe you have noticed it— They all run up the street of Pitt. ...

    Article : 125 words
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