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  2. Boomerang Throwing

    Fifty years ago, at Mungindi, I saw aboriginal children making boomerangs out of bark, throwing them more than 100 yards, and very often ...

    Article : 89 words
  3. The Wedge-Tail's Strength

    Much has been written concerning the strength of the wedge-tail eagle, some persons even claiming that it can lift a full-grown sheep. This has ...

    Article : 222 words
  4. SO THEY SAY.

    An interesting feature about Willis Island, on which is situated the cyclone warning station, is its remarkable bird life. Countless thousands of birds— ...

    Article : 206 words
  5. Varied Mail Boxes

    Most mailmen have a soft spot in their hearts for the lonely selector or farmer whose holding adjoins the mail road, and on their trips both collect ...

    Article : 208 words
  6. Billy's Logic

    An old blackfellow on Wingadee Station, near Coonamble (New South Wales), was noted for his shrewdness. During a shearing trouble in 1902 a ...

    Article : 138 words
  7. Cattle and Curlews

    As a strange coincidence, the same night on which I read a contributor's par relating his experience of a cattle rush at Dead Man's Gully something ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 248 words
  8. Queer Dining Places

    Here are two odd places in which I found two of the blood-sucking species dining. One was a shellback scrub tick and the other a scrub leech. ...

    Article : 84 words
  9. Llamas in Queensland

    It is not generally known that years ago that queer South American animal the llama was introduced into Queensland in an effort to make it a ...

    Article : 190 words
  10. Three Moon Creek

    There is a creek out from Springsure called Three Moon Creek, named thus because in a very narrow gorge of the mountains the blacks declare ...

    Article : 138 words
  11. Served Him Bight

    Knew an old-time Barcoo drover who was overlanding to New South Wales with 10,000 wethers some years ago. On making camp one evening his ...

    Article : 143 words
  12. Cheap Meals

    It was just about tea-time when I arrived at a camp of men and was invited to remain and have a meal with them. They told me that they ...

    Article : 165 words
  13. Contrast in Rulers

    Badu, or Mulgrave Island, in Torres Strait, about 50 miles north-east of Thursday Island, has the only white woman administrator in the world— ...

    Article : 243 words
  14. Some Rabbiters!

    A family of six men, rabbiting on a station on the Maranoa, took 60,000 rabbits off an area of 30,000 acres in five months last winter. They were ...

    Article : 184 words
  15. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 516 words
  16. Blackfellows As Bushmen

    It is a general belief amongst people in the out-back that a blackfellow will never be lost—at least in his own district. Whatever reliance can be given ...

    Article : 292 words
  17. Mortgage Fig

    Large and isolated trees on the Atherton and Evelyn tablelands are sometimes literally devoured by the "Mortgage" fig tree. The seed of this ...

    Article : 146 words
  18. Too Much Collar

    My partner and I pulled into old Deardon's pub. at Torren's Creek, on the Flinders. With us was Harry Combo, our head also stockman. The ...

    Article : 133 words
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