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  2. RE-LIVING THE EARLY DAYS.

    Sir,--I have been greatly interested reading the letters, especially those relating to South and Port Melbourne. My father, the late Captain William Collier, ...

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  3. London Gossip

    The discovery of two more Pepys diaries does not mean that we are to be treated to further intimate details of the celebrated Samuel's spicy escapades. The ...

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  4. FIRST ANTARCTIC NIGHT.

    UNNOTICED by the great world that makes heroes of men in a day and forgets them overnight there died in Brussels last December. Baron Adrien ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. HUGH WALPOLE AND THE LAKE DISTRICT

    UNTIL a few years ago everyone who visited the English Lakes made pilgrimages to literary shrines built round the memory of Wordsworth. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--South Melbourne--SS. Peter and Paul's School:--I attended the above school in Bank-street, starting in the year 1886. The head master was Mr. ...

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  7. A DAY BY THE BAY.

    While spending a day recently in one of our Bayside towns I stood on a little promontory overlooking the glorious stretch of water we call Port Phillip ...

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  8. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Re letter appearing on the 26th, from Florrie Faull under the heading "Old Carlton," I would like to state that the place where Florrie Faull bought her ...

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  9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I was interested in reading Miss Florrie Faull's letter of the 26th January. I have a faint recollection of Miss Faull, and I remember Lizzie Muir, Miss ...

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  10. Old Bendigo Days.

    Sir,--Perhaps those of your readers interested in the early history of Bendigo may be in a position to supply particulars of a pioneer by name John Bakewell, ...

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  11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Florrie Faull (Newport) on 26th January would like to know if there is anyone who remembers the State school at Lygon-street, Carlton, near the ...

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  12. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I read with pleasure Stanley Rae's reminiscences of the old Ironbark school, Bendigo, having attended his father's school to 1876, and well do I ...

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  13. Old School Days.

    SIR,--I have been very interested in many letters from correspondents from different suburbs, I being an old Fitzroyite and a scholar of Bell-street ...

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  14. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--In answer to Florrie Faull, I, Arthur Reddoch, remember the Lygon-street State school, known now as the High school. I remember the teachers she ...

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  15. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--In reply to Miss Faull, I often meet scholars who attended there in my time. My first association with the school was in the old ...

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  16. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--In a recent issue of "The Age" a correspondent, writing of early Emerald Hill days, mentioned Mr. McNicoll as a teacher at Smith's school. ...

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  17. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--Re the opening of the railway line from Maryborough to Dunolly in 1873, I was attending the State school at Newtown when the first passenger train ...

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  18. Ring Warriors.

    Sir,--"Shako's" interesting contribution recalls memories of "Gentleman" Jackson and Martin "Buffalo" Martin Costello. It was at the old Crystal ...

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  19. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I was indeed interested to read the letter from Mr. S. Rae and pupils of Nott-street school. I was a pupil and have a slight recollection of him but ...

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  20. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--There has been much correspondence in "The Age" on the above subject, and memories revived concerning teachers' names. But nothing about ...

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  21. DAVID GRAYSON.

    Sir,--I am sure many of your readers are grateful for the stimulating editorials in last Saturday's issue of "The Age"--Life as Adventure, and Plain Men's ...

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  22. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--In reference to letter signed "J.T.," I was going to the old Carlton school before the "giant's stride," or swing, was introduced, At that time ...

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  23. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I was a scholar at State school No. 1073, Lygon-street, Carlton, from 1880 to 1887. During my time there the head master was Mr. Willmott. He ...

    Article : 548 words
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