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  2. H.M.A.S. TINGIRA.

    Sixty years a ship, and still seaworthy, the old Sobraon, owing to alterations for training our future Jack Tars of the Australian Navy, is doomed to become, like Tom Bowling, a ...

    Article : 1,270 words
  3. ACROSS THE "CREEK:"

    The entente cordiale between Australia and New Zealand is not, to use the succinct term of the moment, "quite!" The entente cordiale between Australia and New Zealand can ...

    Article : 1,183 words
  4. NORTH REEF.

    For several years the scientists of the Great Barrier Reef committee have been actively engaged in investigating what ia undoubtedly one of the most remarkable ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,184 words
  5. THE CARILLON.

    A year's leave of absence from Sydney University finds Professor E. R. Holme in England still inspired with the intense enthusiasm that all along he has thrown into ...

    Article : 1,406 words
  6. WINTER.

    I have just been reading 30 compositions by schoolgirls on "Winter," and have been amazed by the unanimity with which they have all described winter as a dark and dreary ...

    Article : 841 words
  7. YORK MINSTER BELLS.

    AFTER RECASTING THE BELLS WERE TAKEN TO THE CATHEDRAL. The work was carried out recently by Messrs. Taylor and Company, of Loughborough, Leicestershire, who have accepted a contract to cast the carillon for the Sydney University. The Minster bells are said to be the heaviest ringing in England. The first record of bells at the Minster is contained in a note of a 12th century quarrel ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 103 words
  8. BLARNEY CASTLE.

    At a reception given to one of our eminent artists some little time ago, one of the group of people I was with was being so particularly facetious that at length one of the ...

    Article : 935 words
  9. MT. KEIRA LOOKOUT.

    Standing like a sentinel over the town of Wollongong, Mount Keira for years has not been accessible to motorists, owing to the steepness of the road of access to its summit, ...

    Article : 981 words
  10. GERTRUDE LOWTHIAN BELL.

    News came this week of the death of Gertrude Lowthlan Bell, as she called herself in her books, though she had another baptismal name—Margaret. Her name is famed in the ...

    Article : 1,126 words
  11. FOR THE CHILDREN. BIRD MUSIC.

    If a coot played the flute With a tootle-cotle-oot. And the snipe played a pipe. And the crow an oboe; ...

    Article : 73 words
  12. THE FIRST BIRTHDAY.

    Anthony John is one to-day, I heard the flower fairies say; They'd weave a carpet for his feet Of growing grass and blossoms sweet. ...

    Article : 105 words
  13. THE FIRE.

    Come and sit beeide the fire, Little girl; See the flames are reaching higher; How they curl. ...

    Article : 96 words
  14. A PRIVATE EXHIBITION.

    Once there was a lonely Desert, Very desoiate and grey, And the Sky was sorry for him, So she blossomed twice a day. ...

    Article : 179 words
  15. THE QUARREL.

    The kookaburra sat in the old gum tree, As he always sits in poetry. When up there came a pert peewoe, Who loudly cried: "It's plain to me ...

    Article : 134 words
  16. MYSTERIES.

    They are only shimmering petals in a drift of soft mist-blue, Little fairy barques that tumble sweet and light; ...

    Article : 178 words
  17. LACRIMAE RERUM.

    There is a beauty in each hour— The grace and splendour of the flower; A loveliness akin to pain, In sunlight glistening through the rain! ...

    Article : 177 words
  18. RECENT NOVELS.

    This list has been compiled by a special committee of competent judges nominated by the Associated Booksellers of Australia and New Zealand. It is issued to serve as a ...

    Article : 161 words
  19. TERRY IN SYDNEY.

    Young Terry's eyes were wide and blue With wondrous things to see, For Terry came from far "Out-back," And knew each grass and tree, ...

    Article : 152 words
  20. THE GIFT.

    September's gold on hill and plain, The hillsides qulveitng blue, The rose's perfume after rain, I bring them all to you. ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. ROSE BAY.

    You fascinate me, Lady of the Sea. Clothed now in filmy dress of misty grey, Pence reigns upon your brow right royally. And yet you fiercely frowned but yesterday. ...

    Article : 94 words
  22. ADVICE TO AN OCEAN.

    Yes, Ocean, roll! Right glady I endorse The counsel offered by the poet-lord: I love to sit beside thy brink and watch Thine immemorial waves advance, and break, ...

    Article : 92 words
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