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  2. For the BOYS AND GIRLS

    Senior, first prize, R. C. M'Kie,Stanley-terrace, Taringa. Subject, Australian Poetry. Senior, second prize, Myra Barlett ...

    Article : 51 words
  3. OUR OWN COUNTRY

    A visitor to Portsmouth on the day preceding the sailing of the first fleet to Australia, would not have noted anything unusual in the daily routine ...

    Article : 860 words
  4. ANOTHER PRIZE PUZZLE

    The puzzle is to move the single rook over the whole board, so that it shall visit every square of the board once, and only once, and end its tour on the square from which it starts. You have to do this in as few moves as pos sible, and unless you are very ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 184 words
  5. HARD NUTS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 50 words
  6. NOTABLE EVENTS

    John Dryden (1631—1700), an English poet (the "glorious John" of Claud Halers in Sir Walter Scott's Pirate), was born in the little village of ...

    Article : 353 words
  7. Thomas Mort

    Thomas Sutcliffe Mort was born at Rolton, Lancashire, on December 2[?],1816. He was trained for a commercial career, and in 1833 arrived in Sydney ...

    Article : 561 words
  8. SENIOR—FIRST PRIZE.

    When we study poetry we see it in the form of a beautiful body with a glorious soul—a soul that moves all over the world, entering slowly, yet ...

    Article : 619 words
  9. MORE TO CRACK

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 240 words
  10. Hudson Bay Company

    On May 1, 1607, Henry Hudson started out on the first of bis voyages to reach China, by way of a passage to the north of Canada. On the last vovage ...

    Article : 192 words
  11. Pilgrim Fathers

    To understand who these pilgrims were, and why they went to America, we must go back to the north part of England in 1600. Then it was that ...

    Article : 416 words
  12. LONELY OUTPOSTS

    The world's lonliest man, Mr. Hector Pitchforth, lived on Baffin Island, a huge tract of ice-clad land lying far to the north of Hudson Bay. For two years ...

    Article : 446 words
  13. SENIOR.—SECOND PRIZE.

    Nowadays, girls are, more than ever, filling positions and selecting professions which formerly were held by men alone Girls are eager to equip ...

    Article : 303 words
  14. Sir James Simpson

    Sir James Young Simpson first discovered the value of chloroform for surgical operations. The benefit he conferred on mankind is almost too ...

    Article : 370 words
  15. Vindictive Sunk

    As long as England lives the story of the Vindictive will be remembered. Ostend and Zeebrugge on the coast of Belgium—then in German occupation— ...

    Article : 275 words
  16. WHAT WERE THE CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS?

    Among the ancient Jews (see Lev XI) those animals watch chew the end and part the hoof were dean, find might be eaten. Hares and rabbits ...

    Article : 92 words
  17. Sir Robert Herbert

    Sir Robert George Wynham Herbert was born at Brighton (England) on June 12, 1831, and was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford. He ...

    Article : 386 words
  18. 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 : 86 words
  19. JUNIOR.—FIRST PRIZE.

    If everything man desired were given to him, what an uneventful life we would lead! We would have nothing to strive for, nothing upon which to build ...

    Article : 518 words
  20. HISTORIC ADVOWSON

    Associated with the celebrations of the 1300th anniversary of the founding of York Minster was the purchase for the See of York of the advowson of ...

    Article : 246 words
  21. BERLIOZ, LEG PULLER

    Composers with a sense of humour have a habit of "pulling the legs" of those who like personal information, and sometimes they do so to sueh an extent ...

    Article : 186 words
  22. Dante

    The beautiful city of Florence was the birthplace of a man whose name has been handed done from generation to generation as one of the greatest ...

    Article : 364 words
  23. COATS THAT COST FORTUNES

    Furs of all kinds will be just as popular this season sb they have been in past, years, and furriers are considerably alarmed by the acute shortage ...

    Article : 160 words
  24. WHEN PRINCES WED

    It is not, as some say, "impertinence," but legitimate and affectionate interest, that makes most of us curious as to the bride the Prince of Wales will ...

    Article : 156 words
  25. Rouget de Lisle

    By a strange coincidence there was born on this date in 1700 Rouget de Lisle, the author of The Marseillaise, flnd 14 years later, also on May 10 ...

    Article : 136 words
  26. GRAMOPHONE TRICKS

    Arousing acoustical stunts can be performed with one or two gramophone records for which you have no further use. Drill a hole slightly to the side ...

    Article : 134 words
  27. WORLD'S BIGGEST BOOK

    Can you imagine a book so tall that an average-sized man could walk behind it without being seen? Such a book, believed to be largest in the ...

    Article : 116 words
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