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  2. WRECK OF THE GEORGETTE.

    Just 59 years ago, on December 1, 1876, the little steamer Georgette was driven ashore near the Margaret River, and Grace Bussell, who has since come to be ...

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  3. UNIVERSAL SPEECH.

    RECENT correspondence in "The West Australian," about an alternative language, and reference in the Federal Parliament to the need for a universal ...

    Article : 1,341 words
  4. A BOSTON BUNGALOW

    "FROM Western Australia? Oh! come right in, for you are a thousand times welcome!" Such was the enthusiastic outburst that greeted me as I presented ...

    Article : 2,188 words
  5. HOW ENGLAND'S KINGS DIED.

    THE causes of the deaths of all the rulers of England, from William the Conqueror to Edward VII., are discussed in a book. "Le Roy Est Mort," by Mr. ...

    Article : 374 words
  6. THE AMATEUR NAVVY

    "WELL, that's good-bye to Perth for several months," we told one another as the early morning Bunbury train rumbled across the Swan. We ...

    Article : 1,194 words
  7. WATER FOR MILLIONS OF ACRES.

    THE Hume dam across the Murray River, near Albury, New South Wales, is now completed and the big reservoir behind it has filled up. This undertaking ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 723 words
  8. SEA GRASS.

    LONDON, Nov. 23.—A well known sea plant, the eel grass, or Zostera, is disappearing from the shores of the world, and nobody can quite say why. This ...

    Article : 497 words
  9. THE LETTERBOX

    "Willair" (The Singer): Too slight. W.C.C. (Bees): Not quite in line with our requirements. A.C. (Varsity Recollections): Of little ...

    Article : 203 words
  10. THE LIBRARY CORNER

    THE Mithraic religion proved a formidable rival to Christianity, combining as it did a solemn ritual with aspirations after moral parity and a hope of ...

    Article : 416 words
  11. VAGRANT VERSE

    December's just come round the bend And, pre-disposed to clamour, My children (two) their moments spend Anticipating glamour. ...

    Article : 170 words
  12. Books Received.

    "Blazing the Western Trails," by Leslie J. Gomm (Sydney: J. A. Packer). "Aces and Kings," by L. W. Sutherland (Sydney: Angus and Robertson), 6/. ...

    Article : 258 words
  13. ALBERTA TAKES THE KNOCK.

    "ONLY a figure of speech" was how Mr. Aberhart, Social Credit Premier of Alberta, described his election promise to pay every citizen £5 a month as a ...

    Article : 311 words
  14. CHARLES LAMB MEMORIAL.

    GENTLE Charles Lamb, that graceful, winsome writer, died on December, 27. 1834. To mark the centenary of his death, a bust of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 227 words
  15. Books Worth Reading.

    THE following is the London "Observer's" selection of new books most worth reading:— "I Write as I Please," by Walter Duranty. ...

    Article : 172 words
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    SHINING characters are not always the most agreeable ones. The mild radiance of an emerald is by no means less pleasing than the glare of a ruby.— ...

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    "The MacDonalds were a pretty smart clan that wanted to have it both ways, but their foes caught them on the hop and they were severely massacred. The whole episode is regarded as rather unsavory today" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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    METHUEN (London) have published at 7/6 an omnibus volume of A. P. Herbert's famous "Misleading Cases." under the title of "Uncommon Law." ...

    Article : 37 words
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