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  2. MUSIC AND THE THEATRE.

    The Perth Professional Symphony Orchestra will give the next concert of this winter's series at His Majesty's Theatre on Sunday week, June 18. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. AMONG THE CHURCHES.

    The Archbishop of Perth (Dr. Le Fans) will spend the week-end at Morawa where he will consecrate the new church of St. David. He will return to Perth on ...

    Article : 1,295 words
  4. A DRYBLOWER'S DAY.

    Gray dawn, cold and chill to the face as I peer out of my blankets and reach for the pipe on the box near my bunk-side. A few puffs of tobacco smoke and I am ...

    Article : 1,445 words
  5. 45 YEARS IN THE NORTH-WEST.

    Way back in the early part of 1888 the Government decided that the West Kimberley district warranted the formation of a township and the appointment of a ...

    Article : 1,486 words
  6. SCHOOL HISTORY ERRORS.

    It sometimes happens that a statement on a matter of history may be true, and yet the inference drawn from it by the writer may be false, and the general reader ...

    Article : 978 words
  7. THE DAILY DOZEN.

    The habit of the "constitutional" is not confined to man. Animals at the Zoo love to take their daily dozen, as a relief from the monotony of observing the ...

    Article : 999 words
  8. FEDERAL MEMORIES.

    In 1907 Mr. Deakin was Prime Minister and in that year the Colonial Conference was held in London. Mr. Deakin attended: he was accompanied by Mrs. Deakin and ...

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  9. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

    Just one hundred years ago, or four years after the foundation of the colony, there appears in the "Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal" the first ...

    Article : 757 words
  10. PHASES OF PENELOPE.

    I had just inserted a fresh sheet of paper in the typewriter when Penelope burst into the room. "Now, no more work to-night," she ...

    Article : 405 words
  11. WATER POLLUTION.

    The following article from "Engineering" is not without Interest to Perth, where the problem of combating the growth of algae in the Swan River remains unsolved:— ...

    Article : 658 words
  12. NORTH EUROPE PEACE CENTRE

    The Scandinavian and Baltic countries formed an atmospheric centre of peace, which for about 125 years had no single war between themselves and condemn ...

    Article : 271 words
  13. THE FIRST COLONIAL SURGEON.

    Sir,—Mr. Watson's reminiscences in last Saturday's "The West Australian" ("Looking Backward") were most interesting, but it is questionable whether he ...

    Article : 312 words
  14. NOVELS WORTH READING.

    This list has been compiled by a selected committee of competent judges nominated by the Australian Booksellers' Association. It is issued to serve as a guide to fiction of merit. ...

    Article : 251 words
  15. TO-MORROW'S SERVICES.

    St. George's Cathedral.—Preachers: 11 a.m., the Very Rev. H. H. Moore, M.A. 7.30 p.m. the Rev E. H. Strugnell, M.A. There Will be celebrations of Holy Communion at 7 a.m. ...

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    Some more school-boy "howlers":—The sun never sets on the British Empire, because the British Empire is in the east, and the sun sets in the west." "A blizzard is ...

    Article : 277 words
  17. NEW BOOKS AND REPRINTS.

    The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918;" Vol. IV. by O. E. W. Bean. (Sydney. Angus and Robertson. Ltd.) 21/. "Manuscripts" A Miscellany of Art and Letters, ...

    Article : 179 words
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    The "great Rachel" was one of the most avaricious of women. In his "life of the French tragedy queen, Mr. James Agate says that "there is the ...

    Article : 140 words
  19. New Records.

    The gramophonist who knows his Bach and who has a disbelieving friend convinced that that composer is a dry-as-dust old perpetrator of tiresome fugues should ...

    Article : 127 words
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    In his "Diary of a Journalist," Sir Henry Lucy tells the following story concerning a certain famous editor of London "Punch": "One time he appeared ...

    Article : 89 words
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    Two ladies at a tea-party got to quarrelling about their respective ages. At last to end the dispute, one of them said, in a conciliatory tone of voice: "Don't let ...

    Article : 77 words
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