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CHARLES DICKENS.
Letters written by celebrities are always interesting, and the following few extracts from the hitherto unpublished correspondence which passed between Charles Dickens and ...
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SIR LESLIE WILSON.
That Sir Leslie Wilson, the recently appointed Governor of Queensland, will be popular is well assured. Numerous friends throughout Australia, and particularly in ...
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THE CANBERRA CHAIR.
The swearing-in of the members of the 13th Federal Parliament, and the election of Speaker, has directed attention to the historic chair in the House of Representatives at ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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THE ANTARCTIC.
About this time next year a small British party under the leadership of Mr. H. G. Watkins will land on the Antarctic Continent to attempt to solve the last great problem ...
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A FORMER SYDNEY LANDMARK: THE BENT-STREET FOUNTAIN.
In the background is the old Australian Club building, at the corner of Bent and O'Connell streets. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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BOB-TAIL.
A bunny family lives in our garden in a lovely spot covered with vines. There's father and mother rabbit and three dear little baby bunnies. Now, sad to say, these rabbit babies ...
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OLD LANDMARK.
Old Government House, as the records tell, stood till 1845 at the corner of Phillip and Bridge streets, at a convenient distance from the Tank Stream. The drawers of water, in ...
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MOA ISLAND.
I left Thursday Island accompanied by two friends in a small cutter called the "Jimmy." We were bound for the Island of Moa (St. Paul's Island). We were the only white folk ...
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FOR THE CHILDREN.
In our Gardens, not far from the principal gate, Where'Micawbers in somnolent attitudes wait Stands a monument, very adroitly designed. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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PRESERVATION CREEK.
The accompanying illustration of Preservation Creek, near Mount Poole Station, Western New South Wales, reproduced from a photograph taken during October, 1931, by Mr. H. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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TIME TO RISE.
The sun climbs over the old brown roof, And winks to a piece of brass. He kisses flowers in the window-box, And flirts with a blade of grass. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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ROANY.
I would like to tell of a horse we once owned, a roan. We had him for a number of years, and a better worker we never possessed. I believe he either had a sense of humour ...
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SYDNEY BEWITCHED.
While London braves her wintry pageant, Sydney revels in summer—a season of elysium —and the bewitching charm of frangipani which grace her gardens. ...
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NORTH SHORE GARDENS.
I have roamed a good deal about the world, and have taken a positive delight in seeing and admiring the different private gardens attached to the homes in the suburbs of the ...
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REST.
Blue seas above my head—blue seas of sky, Margined with shores of thin translucent leaves— Green coats of fancy An adventurer I, ...
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OF PAN IN A GARDEN.
I have been startled from a waking sleep, Painted with dreams of sunlight, and the blaze Of flowers in a garden. Warm and deep ...
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A DREAM.
Beneath a willow's cool, caressing shade, Beside a stream, blue, dancing in the sun, (It seemed that Love alone dwelt in this glade And we had rapturous company with him ...
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