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  2. A WOMAN OF NOTE.

    On the morning of Sunday, the 2nd of July, Marian Clarke, loved and esteemed by all who knew her, passed quietly away at the age of eighty-one, more than half a century after ...

    Article : 1,529 words
  3. NOON-TIDE HALT.

    The best part of a motoring trip is the pause at lunch time. Unimaginative drivers who leave their cars outside hotel doors, and sit down to a conventional lunch in the ...

    Article : 412 words
  4. THE SCILLY ISLANDS.

    Writing to a friend in Sydney, July 9, 1831, regarding his return to England, Allan Cunningham, the famous botanist and explorer, says: "After a vovage of 20 weeks from Port ...

    Article : 1,227 words
  5. THE MUTTON BIRD

    The mutton bird, or short-tailed petrel (Puffinus brevicaudus), is a sea bird familiarly known to most travellers of our coastline, where it is common, and which frequently ...

    Article : 1,459 words
  6. NERLI'S R.L.S.

    There is something to add to the story of disputes about the Nerli portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson in a former article (in the "Herald" of November 19 last). I have been ...

    Article : 1,053 words
  7. AO-RANGI—NEW ZEALAND'S HIGHEST PEAK.

    Mount Cook (or Ao-rangi, as the mountain was known to the Maoris), is the highest peak in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, and rises to a height of 12,349 feet. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 35 words
  8. FAVOURITE OF THE PAST.

    Morton Selten forwards me a portrait of himself inscribed with his autograph and the words "from his old friend," and as the gift recalls the earliest engagements of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 667 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN. FAIRIES ON THE BRIDGE.

    As midnight sounds from the Town Hall, A hush, a silence softly fall, Lol forth there steals an army small, Of fairies, elves, and pixies tall, ...

    Article : 131 words
  10. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

    In the prospectus of the New York Zoological Park the requirements for the creation of a really great zoo are laid down as "a great many people, a great many animals, and ...

    Article : 885 words
  11. SAMBO.

    Sambo was a cute, domesticated butcher bird, which, in addition to employing a rather extensive vocabulary for a bush pet bird, used to astonish the family circle frequently with ...

    Article : 255 words
  12. FIRESIDE PICTURES.

    On winter nights, I like to watch The pictures come and go In firelight that flickers round A log, when burning low— ...

    Article : 125 words
  13. WHO KNOWS?

    I have just been watching my two tortoises, Salome and Cartaphilus, eating some worms, and if Carthaphilus has been eating worms for as long as I think he has, I wouldn't be ...

    Article : 231 words
  14. "AO-RANGI."

    Ki te tuoho koc, me mounga tel tel. (If you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain—Ancient Maori proverb.) The neolithic Maori, intensely religious, had ...

    Article : 396 words
  15. NONSENSE.

    Anemone Fish is an enemy fish No matter how friendly it seems. It's small and It's bright, but it knows how to bite, ...

    Article : 52 words
  16. THE CORAL TREE.

    From my window I can see a coral tree, thrown into bold and brilliant relief against a background of faded brick wall and dull slate roof. A few months ago its dense, green ...

    Article : 185 words
  17. R.L.S. ON HIS PAINTER.

    Photograph of verses written by Stevenson in an album while sitting to Nerli. The album was sold in Sydney by Nerb along with the replica of the original painting about which controversy has since arisen. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 39 words
  18. BULLI PASS.

    On the pass a watch I'm keeping. Far below the coastline sweeping. To the northward—to the southward— And the billows racing shoreward; ...

    Article : 178 words
  19. THE SERPENT.

    A limbless movement that rustles away— A death-lash to dread, a ling-worm to slay— Or a riddle-shape quickened as symbol of Night and ot Day? ...

    Article : 181 words
  20. BURDEKIN HOUSE.

    Let the old house know wit and gallantry Just once again before it has to go; Let there be leisured talk, and candlelight. And graciousness again within its rooms. ...

    Article : 190 words
  21. CENOTAPH.

    Broadbased and deep the pile that makes a pier, The cornerstone of all a people's dead; Truncated shrine of last thoughts winged and ...

    Article : 109 words
  22. NOT WASTED.

    It is not idleness To sit here in the sun With tasks undone. This golden day is short, ...

    Article : 55 words
  23. HABIT.

    A tree whose lenves. increasing with each branch, Fail, and with Nature subtly do conspire To make a loam just deep and rich enough— ...

    Article : 37 words
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