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  2. For the BOYS AND GIRLS

    Senior.—First-prize, James M. Yeated, Bose Bank, Hill-street, Toowoomba Subject: Aviation Senior—Second prize, Ivy M'Donald, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 49 words
  3. NOTABLE EVENTS

    David Garrich, generally acknowledged as the greatest actor that the English stage has seen, was born at Hereford, England, on February 20 ...

    Article : 308 words
  4. HARD NUTS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 65 words
  5. OUR OWN COUNTRY

    The first fleet had been accompanied fay three companies of Royal Marines, commanded by Major Robert Ross; they numbered some 212 men in all. The term ...

    Article : 355 words
  6. TRICKS AND GAMES

    Someone collects on a small tray 20 small objects of the most miscellaneous kind—a pin, envelope, hat-brush, match, button, etc. When these are arranged ...

    Article : 194 words
  7. Charles Start

    Captain Charles Sturt, distinguished Australian explorer, entered at an early age the army, in the 39th Regiment. When his regiment landed in Australia ...

    Article : 337 words
  8. Junior.—(No award.)

    Many, yean ago a mind of singular agenuity devised a means whereby we night travel without the assistance of animals to provide the power. The ...

    Article : 783 words
  9. Verses While You Wait

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 194 words
  10. MORE TO CRACK RIDDLE-ME-REE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 254 words
  11. Memory Test

    Here is a good game for exercising the memory. We sit round and one who acts as leader says an alliterative sentence, that is, one in which all the words ...

    Article : 123 words
  12. Trick With Figures

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 135 words
  13. Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon was one of the greatest philosophers of his age, and is popularly known as Friar Bacon, and the admirable doctor. He was educated at ...

    Article : 220 words
  14. Alfred Lutwyche

    Alfred James Peter Lutwyche was born in London, and educated at private schools and at the Charterhouse. In 1828 he went to Queen's College ...

    Article : 426 words
  15. Try This One

    Here is an amusing trick to try on your friends when you are sitting round the table: Ask one of them to raise the right foot an inch or two from the ...

    Article : 119 words
  16. Unworthy Officer

    It was unfortunate for the colony that nearly three years elapsed before the second Governor, Captain John Hunter, took up office. During this interval ...

    Article : 323 words
  17. DE ROUGEMONT

    Many of our older readers will remember the publication of Louis de Sougemont's story of his wild adventures on the north-western coast of ...

    Article : 457 words
  18. SENIOR—SECOND PRIZE.

    Art is exclusive concerned with beauty and is a transcript of Nature. It is in fact a language for expressing human emoptions, The creation of ...

    Article : 589 words
  19. Charles Kingsley

    Charles Kingsley, .novelist, poet, and social reformer, was born at the vicarage of Holme, Devonshire. He was a delicate, sensitive, and precocious ...

    Article : 352 words
  20. Duke of Marlborough

    John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, was perhaps the greatest of all military commanders. He was the eldest son of Sir Winston Churchill, and was ...

    Article : 467 words
  21. PICTURE STORY: CAN YOU TELL IT ?

    Chilly nights make most people melancholy; but that mood will not last if you cheer yourself up with The Sunday Mail Picture Story. Forward solutions to " Picture Story," Martin Hambleton, The Sunday Mail, so that they arrive not later than Saturday, June 23. The letters ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 90 words
  22. FACTS ABOUT WATER

    The extent to which water mingles with bodies, apparently the most solid, is very wonderful. The glittering opa[?], which beauty wears as an ornament, is ...

    Article : 225 words
  23. Sir Thomas Mitchell

    Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, the eminent explorer, was born at Craigend, Sterlingshire. At an early age he joined the army in the Peninsula, as a ...

    Article : 423 words
  24. DUKE OF YORK

    An amusing experience which befell king George as a sub-lieutenant in the Navy is related in the new book written by Major Graham Brooks, called The ...

    Article : 291 words
  25. Advertising

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    Advertising : 197 words
  26. BIRDS AS SENTINELS

    In many parts of Northern Brazil, Southern Venezuela, and elsewhere the Indians claim that the tapir is warned of man's presence by the trumpet bird ...

    Article : 177 words
  27. Benjamin Franklin

    To Benjamin Franklin, author, soldier, diplomat, and scientist, the world owes much of its knowledge of electricity, and it was on June 15, in the ...

    Article : 282 words
  28. WEEKLY ESSAYS

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

    Article : 91 words
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