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  2. PANAMA IS VITAL TO AUSTRALIA.

    Because it provides America with a quick passage for her naval forces from the Atlantic to her Pacific bases (towards which Australia looks with more than academic interest) the Panama Canal is a vital link which the United ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 876 words
  3. "CRADLE OF EMPIRE."

    Bristol, now a regular target for Nazi bombers because it is the centre of certain highly important war industries, is rightly called ...

    Article : 643 words
  4. AUSTRALIAN TALENT.

    Another week or two will bring to an end Sir Thomas Beecham's tour through Australia. I have attended all of his concerts so far, and I ...

    Article : 1,146 words
  5. LEANING TOWER OF BRISTOL.

    The Knight Templars gave their name to the Temple Church, Bristol—a [?]ch notable throughout England for its leaning tdwer (it is at least four feet out of the perpendicular). This Pisa-like lurch is ascribed to the fact that the structure was built on woolsacks. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 48 words
  6. TRADITION OF THE OLD SCHOOL TIE.

    The "Old School Tie" joke still thrives and enjoys an outing every now and then from the Haw-Haws and Hee-Haws of Hamburg and Humbug. Myself, I am never very certain whether the folk who make these jests about ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,224 words
  7. A GREAT STEVENSON LIBRARY.

    Last week the "Herald's" cable news from San Francisco reported a calamity which must strike home to all lovers of Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain. The details are yet to be made known here; but from the bare report of the loss in a fire at the San Francisco Exhibition of "many pictures and first editions of works," it ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,156 words
  8. EUROPE.

    Childern! The blood-bow's in the skill The wolf has doffed his shepherd's coat: Our fold is burnt—nowhere to fly— ...

    Article : 63 words
  9. REDEMPTION.

    I was the prodigal, You svere the faithful one. Yet there had been no tale Had I not svandering gone. ...

    Article : 86 words
  10. A. "CONVERTED" SHIP'S WHEEL.

    An old sailing-ship wheel which, after knowing the salt spiay of the seven seas, stood for 20 years in the dust of a coal hulk in Sydney ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 395 words
  11. SCIENCE IN REVIEW.

    If "man is what he eats," as the primitive savage who cats a lion to gain its strength believes, Australians could be classed as ...

    Article : 998 words
  12. PERFECT DIPLOMAT.

    A politician may nurse hatted (hatred is a souice of energy). For a diplomat it is enough blandly to oppose. As with Calvin Coolidge's preacher speaking of ...

    Article : 90 words
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    Advertising : 343 words
  14. A RELIC OF CAMPBELLTOWN

    This abandoned mill, near Campbelltown, is a picturesque relic of the days when the district was the granary of Sydney. When Mr. A. N. Clarke made this sketch the roof was falling into ruin, but the huge beams supporting the floor were as sound as when ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 60 words
  15. EGG LOVERS.

    The Nor'-Western Australian aborigines are particularly fond of turtle and turtle eggs, and it would be hard to compute the number of ...

    Article : 268 words
  16. HOLLYWOOD FAKE

    "A legend of bohemianism in journalism persists. Many otherwise intelligent and well-informed citizens think that newspaper men ...

    Article : 149 words
  17. NIGHT-SHIRT.

    There was no one less like a traditional Fellow of Trinity College than the late Lord Rutherford. So invigorating, vital, breezy, and ...

    Article : 179 words
  18. TRUE EDUCATION.

    Vitalising education is only possible when it is under the influence of people who are themselves learning. It is inseparable from teh modern idea of ...

    Article : 74 words
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