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  2. THE LAND OF SHADOWS

    Slowly, relentlessly, the wheels of time revolve, and each succeeding Christmas marks off another milestone in the span of life. A few brief days and then, with a whirl of ...

    Article : 4,385 words
  3. LONDON'S POST

    Ten tons a day is the average weight of the outgoing mail from his Majesty's Stationery Office. It is London's biggest postbag, and there is something in it for ...

    Article : 358 words
  4. THE FRIEND OF MAN

    The faithfulness of a dog gave occasion for two poets, Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott, to write about his fidelity. Strangely enough neither poet knew of the other's poem until ...

    Article : 493 words
  5. PLANT LIFE MARVELS

    A group of English naturalists and travellers were asked by the editor. of 'Conquest" to write on the subject, "The most remarkable plant I ever saw." Professor D. ...

    Article : 664 words
  6. SCHOOL NOTES

    The teachers' conference has engaged the attention of teachers throughout the State for the past week. The agenda paper was a lengthy one and contained 159 resolutions. ...

    Article : 272 words
  7. NEW CLUB BUILDING

    A proposal to erect a new club building in Phillip-street, Sydney, was considered at conference during the week. In 1921 the federation purchased a block of land with ...

    Article : 212 words
  8. SCIENCE OF WAR

    Mr. A. R. Parkinson, M.Q.I.S., A.S.A.S.M., in a lecture before the Queensland Institute of surveyors, on "The Elements of Sound Ranging," dealt with a method developed ...

    Article : 320 words
  9. TRAVELLING EXPENSES

    The president of the federation, Mr. P. K. Buchanan, announced to conference that the Public Service Board had decided to make new regulations, providing substantial ...

    Article : 535 words
  10. RE-TEMPERING

    Many a time a bushman or selector living in an isolated part of the country wishes that he had a chapce of getting his axes or other edged tools r[?]-tempered or hardened, so that ...

    Article : 768 words
  11. THE DROOD CASE

    The mystery of "Edwin Drood," in which public interest has lately been revived, will never be solved (says "John o' London's Weekly"). Dickens died when the novel ...

    Article : 632 words
  12. SHETLAND CUSTOM

    A schoolmaster at Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, describes an ancient and curiious practice of the Shetlanders when cutting heather or turf for roofing. The islanders ...

    Article : 530 words
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