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  2. AMATEUR ROWING.

    This year marks the centenary of amateur rowing in New South Wales, and recalls the history of the men who in different spheres have done the State some service since the ...

    Article : 1,143 words
  3. PUZZLE IN PORTRAITS.

    I read with much interest the article by Mr. F. M. Cutlack on Nerli's portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson. He has dealt with his subject very thoroughly, and my only object in ...

    Article : 629 words
  4. RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX.

    Ours is a generation which relishes centenaries of the famous dead. This year Scott and Goethe, for example, have been proved a century dead, and honours have ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,266 words
  5. MARSDEN'S WINDSOR.

    "We have reason to fear and feel the greatest loss from the absence of a person so just and indefatigable in the public concerns and welfare," wrote the "holders of landed ...

    Article : 1,396 words
  6. ANCIENT ELM AT CHEQUERS.

    An artist's impression of this magnificent tree in 1825. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 14 words
  7. THE LONG WAY HOME.

    From Tiflis I decided to go to Baku, on the Caspian Sea. Railway stations are always popular in Russia. People waiting for trains sleep and eat in them, and if they ...

    Article : 1,295 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN. THE SECRET.

    A beautiful secret the brownies knew, Hundreds of years ago; They wanted to tell it to everyone, And their eyes were all aglow. ...

    Article : 165 words
  9. THIRD BUSHLAND EXHIBITION.

    On coming away from this breath of bushland, after passing through this delicious panorama of beauty and colour in the very heart of the dingy city, one's thoughts are ...

    Article : 652 words
  10. AN ANCIENT ELM.

    In 1574 Jane, the widow of Sir William Dormer, married William Hawtrey, of Chequers, in the parish of Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire. This William Hawtrey, ...

    Article : 597 words
  11. THE REAL OUTBACK.

    After he had encountered the sandhills "back-of-Bourke," and wandered out to the Paroo, the comfortable city dweller would consider he had seen the "out back." But if ...

    Article : 805 words
  12. ISABEL ANN.

    When Isabel Ann Came down from Moree, She never had seen A beach or the sea, ...

    Article : 142 words
  13. THE RABBIT.

    The rabbit is a valiant soul; He never turns a hare, But scuttles swiftly down a hole (A very small and dirty hole) ...

    Article : 45 words
  14. BADGES FOR DOGS.

    The other day I had the pleasure of visiting a home where dogs are looked after when their owners are abroad or absent on holidays, and I was very deeply impressed with ...

    Article : 323 words
  15. MISS ELIZ. BETTS, GLADESVILLE, GRAND-DAUGHTER OF REV. SAMUEL MARSDEN.

    Miss Betts is shown with her collection of Marsden family portraits, which she placed on view in the School of Arts, Windsor, during the "Back to Windsor" week. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  16. AN OLD SUNDIAL

    Set in the west wall of St. John's Anglican Church, Wilberforce, is a sundial bearing the figures 1859, the year in which the church was built, and the letters, J.W. ...

    Article : 206 words
  17. CLOISTERHAM.

    Not by frail fence of pallid reeds, My Lethe river runs, Nor 'thwart the yellow targe of waning meads, 'Neath moon-like suns. ...

    Article : 134 words
  18. NIRVANA.

    Earth's eyelids droop; the sun is sinking west; Deep gloom eclipses noonday's flagging laugh. Far sunset furls a bannered epitaph, ...

    Article : 108 words
  19. NASTURTIUMS.

    One led me through a garden, wide and fair, "Are not my roses beautiful?" she said; And so I praised them, delicately bred, And wisely tended with another's care. ...

    Article : 109 words
  20. FINIS.

    Dead leaves falling from the tree-top. Bare brown branches on the hill; All the birds that sang so sweetly Now are still. ...

    Article : 49 words
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