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  2. WALL GAME AT ETON COLLEGE

    The big "Wall Game" match of the year, played at Eton College on St. Andrew's Day, November 30, between "Collegers" and "Oppidans" (team representing boys who formerly lived in the adjacent town). Most of the time the players are huddled against the wall, and the ball is invisible. The players wear thickly padded wall caps. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 64 words
  3. Short Story Feature Three Ways Out

    This was Newcastle—minor hell on the southern side of the river and major on the northern. On this side men, if the term could apply, sweated and toiled in ...

    Article : 1,977 words
  4. LEAVES FROM OLD FILES

    The important case, Brown and others v. the Railway Commissioners, which was to have come or for hearing at the Circuit Court, has been postponed until next ...

    Article : 680 words
  5. A Naturalist's Notebook

    If every insect were inimical to the interests of man it is doubtful whether he could survive, in spite of his superior mental organisation. As it is, the ...

    Article : 308 words
  6. 25 YEARS AGO

    The gun trials of the tremendously powerful H.M.S. Orion, the super-dreadnought, have been more successful than the British Admiralty expected. Windows ...

    Article : 682 words
  7. CHIEF JUSTICESHIP

    On the death of Sir James Martin, in 1886, the Chief Justiceship of New South Wales became vacant. The position was offered, by the Premier (Sir Patrick ...

    Article : 987 words
  8. DIXON SCOTT

    When Dixon Scott was taken from us in the last war, English criticism suffered a grievous loss, for Dixon Scott was a born critic, and the critical faulty is ...

    Article : 1,667 words
  9. Necessary Precautions

    Immigration rules often prescribe rigid tests for human beings, but these are simple compared with the tests our insect immigrants have to pass. First there are ...

    Article : 312 words
  10. Insects and Lantana

    The Grafton experiment has a famous scientific precedent, famous because it was in connection with lantana that the first notable triumph in insect control ...

    Article : 215 words
  11. FOR SUNDAY

    If a man love Ma, he will keep My words.—St. John, xv., 23. Whosoever doth not bear his cross and come aftar Me, cannot be My ...

    Article : 906 words
  12. The Blackberry Pest

    Where rainfall and climatic conditions are favourable, the introduced blackberry has covered large areas. In addition to reducing the grazing value of land it forms ...

    Article : 210 words
  13. AN OLD-TIME SAILING SHIP

    MR. E. J. BRENT, of Newcastle, has received from New Plymouth (N.Z.) a copy of the drawing of the old-time Australian-Dominion trader, the Gazelle, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 358 words
  14. GIANT LIGHTHOUSE

    One of the biggest lighthouses in the world will soon be put into operation at Cape Columbine, South Africa. With a strength of 9,500,000 candlepower, it will ...

    Article : 182 words
  15. Birds and Blossoms

    A jacaranda tree is in bloom in my garden. Its beautiful blue flowers make a vivid splash of colour in the suburban landscape. This morning I noticed a ...

    Article : 224 words
  16. THE DAY'S WORK.

    I hailed the morning sunshine. With heart as light and free As beams that dance on streams that glance ...

    Article : 132 words
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