OUR engraving of Mr. Fernleigh L. Montague's prize painting, Burragorang valley, gives an outline and at least some idea of his original, as much probably as is possible to convey by a wood block representation. In the painting the colours ...
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Article : 201 wordsTHE two cups illustrated in these pages are the challenge rowing cups of the Melbourne Banks and the Public Service clubs; they were designed and manufactured by Brush and Drummond, Collins-street. The Public Service Challenge ...
Article : 157 wordsRoss is situated in the Hokitiki district, Province of Can— terbury, and abounds in many specially pleasant localities which are never forgotten hy tourists. The small engraving given on page 20, although depicting a scene taken in the ...
Article : 195 wordsThe half-yearly statement of the Bank of New South Wales, shows a credit balance of £3436 13s. 6d., from previous account, and net profits for the past six months amounting to £117,598 Os. 2d., making a total of £121,034 ...
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Article : 188 wordsTHIS event, which occupied three days, took place upon the 28th, 29th, and 30th October, in the Botanic Gardens, whither were attracted a vast number of connoisseurs, amateurs, and upper ten of Sydney. The Hon. Lady ...
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Article : 347 wordsWHO has not heard of the celebrated North Cross Reef? or rather, who does not know that the North Cross Reefer is in his district an aristocrat worth courting,—always rich, too frequently drunk, but ever the centre of an adulative ...
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