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  2. BOTANIC GARDENS.

    Our Botanic Gardens hold many Australian flowering plants and trees, which have been collected from all parts of Australia. These native plants have a unique beauty of their ...

    Article : 742 words
  3. A PLACE OF BIRDS.

    Like stately Spanish galleons, the black swans sall across the still lagoon, each with its convoy of small craft—the grey cygnets. Some of the youngsters are weeks old and almost ...

    Article : 1,395 words
  4. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, PARRAMATTA.

    The twin towers and spires embody a recollection of the old church at Reculver, Kent. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 24 words
  5. FAILURE OF SCIENCE.

    Of the countless thousands of centuries during which man has inhabited the earth, none perhaps commenced under more happy ausplces than the twentieth. Troubles there ...

    Article : 1,632 words
  6. IN WARTIME DAYS.

    By the visit of Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt to these shores I am reminded of the days back in 1915, when I first met him in Washington, D.O., where he was naval attache to the ...

    Article : 1,305 words
  7. ST. JOHN'S, PARRAMATTA.

    This brief story refers to the ancient, medieval, and modern origins of our dear old historical parish church of St. John's and its precursors, Reculver and Regulbium. For, just ...

    Article : 404 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    When Timothy grows up to be The age of nine or ten, He wants to follow in the steps Of dashing tramway men; ...

    Article : 198 words
  9. MEXIE.

    When Mexle left his native land of South America he must have been "o'er young," for when he reached Sydney he was still a very unsightly fledgling, and had to be hand-fed ...

    Article : 452 words
  10. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    When one thinks of Canberra and the cellent accommodation provided for Ministers and their staffs, it is interesting to recall the earliest days of the Commonwealth' and ...

    Article : 951 words
  11. THE TELEPHONE.

    The publication in a recent "Herald" of copy of Sir Graham Bell's first sketch of his invention recalls to my mind many incidents in connection with the introduction of the ...

    Article : 593 words
  12. PUNISHMENT CORNER.

    (A story of the great painter, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, and his much loved grandchild, Angela.) Fair Angela, by mother's stern commands, ...

    Article : 159 words
  13. WHITE-CHEEKED HONEY-EATER.

    Amid the blossoms of the scarlet bottle brush, hopping about in sprightly mood between clumps of bushes and flowering shrubs, this joyous, vital little elf of a bird may be ...

    Article : 318 words
  14. UNUSUAL HOBBY.

    Mr. William Freame, of Westmead, has just completed the unique task of copying and so preserving os an historical record the inscriptions on more than 2000 early tombstones ...

    Article : 283 words
  15. SAILING.

    I turn our table upside down, And use it for a boat; With paper sails stuck on the legs, Away I gally float. ...

    Article : 146 words
  16. A BRETON LEGEND.

    Strange what legends hover over our gardens, sonu to honour, as with rosemary, that sweet bush on which Mary hung the little clothes of Jesus to dry, and which has been ...

    Article : 225 words
  17. THE FALLEN HORSE.

    He tore my heart on Pyrmont Bridge; Upon some Jagged, rain-hewed ridge— Fated as inescapable. Though smaller than the eye could ...

    Article : 246 words
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    Ruins of the church at Reculver, with its towers, "The Sisters." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 15 words
  19. G.P.S.

    Founded fine men to make For State and country's sake, Taught by traditions old Rarer than minted gold, ...

    Article : 127 words
  20. WERE I A SINGER.

    Were I a singer with a golden tongue Wherein live notes of nightingales might dwell, I'd leave all tales of love and war unsung And weave instead small harmonies to toll ...

    Article : 148 words
  21. WAKEFULNESS.

    Como, happy sleep! Vigil I keep, Brooding o'er life, Hating its strife, ...

    Article : 52 words
  22. THE IRONBARK.

    Lo! Like the valiant warriors of old, And like adventurers bold of present day, So brave it breasts the furled fates that be, Wild raging flies, and the storm-king's will. ...

    Article : 81 words
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