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  2. WHEN THE LALI BEATS I IN FIJI.

    Let learned critics speak of the effects of major musical compositions on the mind of civilised man... For my part I should like to hear again at dusk the relentless "pom-POM-pom," of the lali as it sounds an age-old message across the hills and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 936 words
  3. A PERFECT ECLIPSE.

    As perfect a solar eclipse as astronomers have ever been privileged to see has come and gone in the clear skies of the Karroo, that ...

    Article : 924 words
  4. THE GREAT WHITE STADIUM OF ATHENS.

    The famous white marble stadium at Athens. Dating from classical days, it was restored in modern times to its original magnificence by a wealthy Greek from Alexandria. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  5. GREECE OF TO-DAY.

    Greece contains only one Athens; the United States can point to some five or six. In view of the respective dimensions of the two countries, this might perhaps be expected, but it is rather more surprising to realise that ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 914 words
  6. GLOOM COMES TO JAPAN.

    On the first of each month no one in Japan must enioy life, all loyal Japanese are asked to meditate seriously on the future New ...

    Article : 668 words
  7. PRIVATE LIFE OF THE CICADA.

    The voice of the cicada is again heard in the land. Often libellously called a locust, this raucous insect, a confirmed lover of hot weather, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 745 words
  8. CRICKETERS PLAY THEIR PART IN THE EMPIRE'S TEST.

    Sportsmen throughout the Empire are "playing the game" in various branches of the fighting Services. Waterloo may, or may not, have been won on the playing-fields of Eton, but at least we can say that in the present war British sportsmen are all ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 973 words
  9. DISCREDITED PROPHET.

    The date that Hitler named and set For our defeat his passed, and yet We missed that grim fatality. But since that time he changed his min[?] ...

    Article : 101 words
  10. THAT ELUSIVE AVERAGE!

    A week or two ago I wrote in these columns an article on the "average" Australian, the "whole point of which was to express my opinion that no such being as an average Australian existed. In effect I said, like Mrs. Camp, I don t believe there's ...

    Article : 1,173 words
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  12. ATTACK CREEK.

    Attack Creek, about 40 miles north of Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory, was the site of a desperate fight with "blacks." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 295 words
  13. HOME.

    Kings have their mausoleums... and Love's elect, The Taj Mahal, that moon-pearl peritomb, ...

    Article : 128 words
  14. SHELTER IN LUXURY.

    Smart hotels in London have expended great efforts and spared no expense to make their shelteis attractive. ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. GREAT DROUGHT OF 1838.

    Turning back the records, we find that, in 1838, Sydney was in the grip ot a drought similar to the one we are experiencing ...

    Article : 166 words
  16. "THE GLORY THAT IS GREECE."

    Ye Isles of Greece, that Byron's genius sang, Where grew the rival arts of war and peace, ...

    Article : 122 words
  17. A PERFECT GENTLEMAN

    Von Moltke. who was a very religious and very humane man, was a perfect gentleman, in this respect the antithesis of Bismarck. For example. Bismarck, ...

    Article : 139 words
  18. TRUE EDUCATION.

    "To my thinking the criterion of the intellectual ability of the mass of the people is not their ability to read and write, but rather their ...

    Article : 95 words
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