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  2. for the BOYS AND GIRLS

    Senior:—MARJORIE KERB, Victoria Park-road, off Kelvin Grove-road, Brisbane. Subject: The Curlew. Junior. Second Prize.—KATHLEEN ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 52 words
  3. HARD NUTS

    Madam, ma, dam, mad Adam, Ada. BURIED POETS. Gray, Moore, Byron, Pope, Dryden, Gay, Keats, Hemans. ...

    Article : 62 words
  4. NOTABLE EVENTS

    The battle of Flodden resulted in the defeat and death of the Scottish king, James IV, the slaughter of nearly 30 of his nobles and chiefs, and the loss of ...

    Article : 153 words
  5. WEEKLY ESSAYS

    This competition (for which book prizes will be awarded) will be continued. Senior and junior competitors to select their own subjects. The ...

    Article : 92 words
  6. OUR OWN COUNTRY

    When W. E. Gladstone became Secretary of State for the Colonies in December, 1845, he was faced with the problem of disposing of convicts who ...

    Article : 403 words
  7. Duke of Wellington

    Arthur, Duke of Wellington, the most illustrious Englishman of his time, was born in 1769, the younger son of an Irish peer remarkable only for his ...

    Article : 153 words
  8. SENIOR.—FIRST PRIZE.

    Plainly there comes on the evening air, Over the earth that seems so fair. A mournful, walling cry: Ah-ooh! Ah-ooh! Ah-ooh! ...

    Article : 537 words
  9. MORE TO CRACK

    Place four fives so that their sum shall make 6½. CHANGED WORD. Change the word SING into TALK, ...

    Article : 104 words
  10. SECRET INKS

    With the issue of these inks a correspondence may be carried on beyond the discovery of all pot in tho secret. Thus:— ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 429 words
  11. First Cheque Used

    Some of our older readers have banking accounts, and have drawn out money with a cheque, which is, after all, ...

    Article : 77 words
  12. PICTURE STORY

    This interesting competition attracted a large number of entrants, and as no one succeeded in giving a correct reading, the task of examining each ...

    Article : 151 words
  13. GEORGE HOUSTON REID

    The Right. Hon. Sir George Houston Reid, P.C., G.C.M.G., D.C.L. son of Rev. John Reid, a Presbyterian clergyman, was born at Johnstone, Renfrewshire, ...

    Article : 583 words
  14. PRIZE FOR POSTER

    An Olde Englishe Fayre it being held at Government House on October 13 to help Toc H, and a prize of one guinea for an original poster to advertise it is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 291 words
  15. JUNIOR.—FIRST PRIZE.

    There is no grander, lovelier figure in the whole field of English literature than the elf-flung-away Sydney Carton," So says a critic of Charles Dickens's ...

    Article : 691 words
  16. SILHOUETTES—Can You Name Them ?

    Here are six silhouettes of objects known to all. Look carefully at the shadow pictures and you will soon distinguish what each one represents. When you have done this write (in ink), the answers on the spaced line below the silhouettes, and forward the solutions to "Silhouettes," Martin Hambleton, The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 108 words
  17. Cleopatra's Needle

    The so-called Cleopatra's Needle, brought from Egypt, is not a needle, and bas nothing to do with Cleopatra. This Egyptian obelisk of pink granite, ...

    Article : 576 words
  18. James Fenimore Cooper

    James Fenimore Cooper was born in New Jersey, of mixed English and Swedish stock, and his earliest years were spent amid the wilds still tenanted by ...

    Article : 233 words
  19. COBB & CO. GREAT COACHING FIRM

    In the Queensland Museum may be seen the last coach of Cobb and Co., which was taken off the road in 1924. The original coaching firm was started by four ...

    Article : 456 words
  20. JUNIOR.—SECOND PRIZE.

    Perhaps there is no other writer whose literary efforts are more deserving of praise than Charlotte Bronte. Born at Thornton on April 21, 1816, of an Irish ...

    Article : 426 words
  21. THE ROMANCE OF INVENTION AND DISCOVERY

    1. In the 18th century a boy named James Watt was wout to amuse himself by removing the lid of the kettle and trying to condense the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 240 words
  22. A CAPITAL GAME.

    Now for a capital same to be played with an old pacn of cards Sides are chosen, and the pack is distributed among them, one side taking red and the other black cards. ...

    Article : 104 words
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