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  2. COMMISSARIAT STORE.

    One of the oldest—if not the oldest—publid buildings in Sydney fronts Circular Quay. I refer to the Commissariat Store, near the Lane Cove ferry, which was designed and ...

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  3. NATIONAL MUSIC.

    In an article on Sydney composers which appeared in the "Sydney Morning Herald," Dr. Keith Barry, in referring to those who had achieved success at home and abroad, remarket ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 851 words
  4. RELICS OF BLIGH.

    In neither of the two collections of Cook relics, housed respectively at the Mitchell Library and the Museum, is to be found the great circumnavigator's chronometer. It ...

    Article : 518 words
  5. "OLD SKETCH-BOOKS.

    For almost a century the sketch books of Lieutenant Thomas Woore, R.N., formerly an officer of H.M.S. Alligator, and in the later years of his life a pioneer settler in the ...

    Article : 1,345 words
  6. A MEMORABLE EPISODE ON THE NEW ZEALAND COAST IN 1834.

    The rescue of Mrs. Guard and her children from the Maoris on the Taranaki coast, as depicted by Lieutenant Thomas Woore, an eye-witness. This is the first time the sketch has been reproduced. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 43 words
  7. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Who ever saw the perfect zoo, With luxuries to spare. Like hurdles for the kangaroo, And raiment for the bear? ...

    Article : 96 words
  8. WONDERS OF A MOONLIT NIGHT.

    The restless, busy pattering of feet has ceased, the birds have flown to rest, the trundling of an old cart travelling down the dusty road has stopped; all is silent as night ...

    Article : 307 words
  9. OLIVER CROMWELL.

    Born In the parish of St. John, In the town of Huntingdon, on April 25,1599, Oliver Cromwell came of a very ancient famliy, which was of Welsh extraction and bore originally the ...

    Article : 1,148 words
  10. EARLY DAYS.

    The Bona Vista estate, part' of which now forms the southern end of the town of Paterson—the remainder, with the old homestead. being the property of Mr. M. Smith—was ...

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  11. WESLEY'S CHAIR.

    The accompanying photograph depicts what is called Wesley's Chair, which is now in the possession of Mr. and Mrs. Beattie, of Alfred-street, Kogarah. It is 300 years old, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 155 words
  12. SYDNEY'S OLDEST PUBLIC BUILDING.

    View of the Commissariat Store over sixty years ago. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. PEACE.

    Peace dwells not in the coolness of the night, Nor rises with the sun at break of day. It goes not with him to his midday height, Nor travels with him on his western way. ...

    Article : 114 words
  14. BIBLICAL PLANTS.

    Cedars of Lebanon, oaks of the same species as the mighty tree called "Abraham's oak," and many other species of trees are to grow in the new botanical garden of the Hebrew ...

    Article : 463 words
  15. OLIVER CROMWELL.

    Reproduced from an engraving of 1734. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 9 words
  16. PAGEANT OF SPRING.

    Early this month 15,000 young and vigorous almond trees and flowering peach trees, with just as many Bronze and purply brown leaved plum trees, will be disporting their ...

    Article : 381 words
  17. THE MASTERPIECE.

    When I bethink me of the splendid things. That men have done; fantastic visionings They have made captive in reality, That they might conquer air and land and ...

    Article : 193 words
  18. WINTER DUSK.

    Turret and tower and chimney-stack. The skyline of the city black Against the sunset's glowing chrome; Gable and spire and vane-topped dome, ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. RESTFUL HAVEN.

    Here in this valley for my head The earth has fashioned grasses and a bed Of emerald fern to close about my heart, Wherefrom the fingers of the day depart ...

    Article : 121 words
  20. TO MY LADY.

    My lovely one, before that hour with you, I never knew That time—as sluggish as a steed On roads of common days— ...

    Article : 98 words
  21. SHADOWS.

    They come and go and play and interplay: A stencilled tracing on a rubble wall; A summer veil; a winter's frigid pall; An angel's wing that dials the golden day. ...

    Article : 100 words
  22. MEMENTO MORI.

    The wine cup comes around the board; Take to your lips again The bottled sunlight of the South, The sunlight of Champagne. ...

    Article : 52 words
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