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AUSTRALIAN BOOKS.
NORTHERN TERRITORY.
At Darwin, the capital of the Northern
Territory, tliey play football during the
summer aiid cricket during the winter.
The reason for this reversal of the prac
tice in -other lands is that in the North
ern Territory they divide the climate into
tho w'et season and the dry season, anil
that cricket is played in the dry season,
which happens to correspond with the
winter months, anil that football is played
in the wet summer months. This is. one
of the many interesting bits of informa
tion scattered about iu Mrs. J. S. Litch
field's entertaining book "Far-North
Memories" (Angus and Robertson Ltd.,
Sydney), in which she writeB about her
life iu the Northern Territory, where she
spent ten yeais 111 the diamond drill
camps. She left Sydney in a state of
physical and mental depression, 111 order
to see if a' change of scene would do her
good- She stuved with Mrs. Grey, the
wife of one of the men employed 011 the
Government diamond drill working ut
West Arm, nnd subsequently moved with
her -friend 'and Mr. Grey to Anson Buy.
She hns-- much" -that 'is interesting to . re
cord about the country, the conditions of
life and about the aborigines, , of-, whom
she writes with , understanding nnd sym--
pathv. When -she wout back to Sydney
she pincd for tlie grcat .open spnees ot tho
Northern Territoiy. and returned there.
"I- found the: Territory, a glorious conn-
try," she writes -in her concluding chap
ter. 'T 'had found, life to/ lie \volKwOrth
living. I found the ; 'awful climate'— n .
bunyip.-: I- had found that tlio average
wliitn woman,: whether she. bo married or
single, can lead its healthy, and -as happy,
a life Tn. the'. Territory , , as anywhere
else in Australia." - . /
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