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  2. DR. W. REDFERN.

    To-day a busy industrial centre of the metropolis and a suburban railway station perpetuate the memory of an outstanding pioneer of the Australian medical profession, ...

    Article : 1,268 words
  3. POLYNESIAN ATOLLS.

    Bound to outer-Polynesian groups and sporadic atolls between Viti Levu (Fiji) and the equator our ship swung stern to Suva jetty, negotiated the passage through the coral ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,323 words
  4. BALL HUT, TASMAN GLACIER, NEW ZEALAND.

    Fourteen miles along a bridle track on horseback from the Hermitage at Mount Cook brings the tourist to the isolated Ball Hut, nestling at the foot of snowclad rocky slopes in the Southern Alps. Out on the glacier to the right of the picture, a mile or two from the Hut, are marvellous ice caves and ice arches, also deep crevasses revealing 50 feet or more of solid blue ice, surmounted by 20 feet of snow. The towering summit of Mount Cook (over 12,000 feet above sea level) is shown in the distance on the right. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 102 words
  5. "MISSING WORDS."

    Many people in Sydney who are approaching or beyond their sixtieth year, will remember the excitement some 40 years ago in regard to the missing word competition in ...

    Article : 1,572 words
  6. NATIONAL LIBRARY.

    The first book-stack of the National Library now stands in its place, exquisitely symmetrical and dignifiedly tall. Its surface is of Hawkesbury River sandstone, crushed and ...

    Article : 788 words
  7. BATEMAN'S BAY.

    The charm of Baleman's Bay is its spaciousness, and the Clyde River, which flows into it, is nearly 300 yards wide at the ferry. As your car pants to a standstill on the Sydney ...

    Article : 605 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    When you go with Mother to afternoon tea It's usually served at half-past three. It's always with bread and butter you start, And you generally end with a bun or a tart. ...

    Article : 206 words
  9. "PADDY."

    For many years Paddy, the fox terrier, was the pride of all the Circular Quay wharves. Long and unshapely, but with an expression on his face that seemed almost to be a smile, ...

    Article : 304 words
  10. "MY FANTASTIC MIND."

    John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, is remembered as one of the scarlet spots in the literary and social history of the later seventeenth century. One of the "mob of gentlemen ...

    Article : 981 words
  11. SUNDAY RAIN.

    Rain... its rolling beat swept across the park, hushed the trees to a dripping stillness—drove every living thing to shelter. Sunday rain—a grey melancholy over the ...

    Article : 382 words
  12. ARK ANTICS.

    Laughter and jollity, fun and frivolity, Reigned in the Ark's social hall, Where of cultured society every variety Met at the Ark Artists' Ball. ...

    Article : 159 words
  13. SILVER GULL.

    What a glorious existence me seagulls must have Neither land nor sea, calm nor storm hold any terrors for them. They are found hundreds of miles inland, quite healthy and ...

    Article : 205 words
  14. A. SILHOUETTE.

    It was my first night in the country, and as I sat on the verandah railing looking out into the darkness, the low wind rustled the trees in the gully which lay some fifty yards or ...

    Article : 176 words
  15. THE FAIRY DOLL.

    The warm days of summer have come back again. Christmas and stocking-time soon will be here, ...

    Article : 108 words
  16. DAFFODILS.

    The words of this song came aptly, on a recent visit to a flower farm, where 40 different kinds were spread on which to rest my eyes, town tired—a carpet of enchantment. ...

    Article : 115 words
  17. STRANGE BUSH SOUNDS.

    Australia is admittedly a land of the weird. Reading the article on "strange desert sounds" in a recent "Herald," one was forcibly reminded of one's own experience. ...

    Article : 455 words
  18. TO THE AIR.

    If I should find no music in the morn, If from the flowers my pen should cull no verse, If all the birds were lonely and forlorn, If from the stars I could no lines rehearse, ...

    Article : 103 words
  19. ANGEL'S FOOD.

    The sun is but a jelly red; When set, they put it by For cutting into beams and bars, And countless golden rays and stars, ...

    Article : 66 words
  20. JOHN STOW'S PEN

    Mention of John Stow, in the article "Storied Nooks," by F. S. Burnell, recalls a curious old custom. In the alabaster monument erected to the ...

    Article : 172 words
  21. AN OLD TALE ENDS.

    "So I were out of prison"—"King John," Act IV. On heaven's blue hill a gentle lad tends sheep, Where golden bees hum through the ...

    Article : 215 words
  22. OLDEST HOUSE AT BATEMAN'S BAY.

    The bungalow is 80 years old, and the Norfolk Island pines half a century. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 19 words
  23. ST. MATTHEWS, WINDSOR.

    The Lold church dreaming by the river. The distant hills all green and old: Down where the water grasses quiver, Bright flowers their lovely hues unfold: ...

    Article : 106 words
  24. RONDEAU.

    One summer night, do you remember, dear? Sweet with all flowers, the air was soft and clear, A terraced garden was our meeting place. ...

    Article : 125 words
  25. NO LOVELIER THING!

    I scarce could tear myself away From the yellow gorse on the hills to-day, And thought no lovelier thing could be Until I saw a lilac tree. ...

    Article : 60 words
  26. THE ILLIMITABLE.

    A ripple on the shoreless sea— The flashing of a cosmic ray Are loiterers upon the way To unexplored Eternity. ...

    Article : 26 words
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