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  2. DR. BARNARDO.

    In doing this public work for the public and on behalf of the public. Dr. Barnardo did it in a manner which is an object lesson, not only to the authorities in England, but to the whole ...

    Article : 1,315 words
  3. AN EVERYDAY SCENE OFF NOBBY'S IN THE DAYS OF SAIL.

    One of J. and A. Brown's tugs, the Stormcock, is haggling with an inward-bound barque over the rate of towage. The original, a water-colour, was painted by Mr. W. Foster, a well-known marine artist, in 1887. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 46 words
  4. MOSMAN BAY.

    Although it is just over one hundred years ago that the real life of Mosman Bay began in a settlement formed by Archibald Mosman to carry on the whaling industry, the actual ...

    Article : 1,531 words
  5. OVERLANDING.

    It has always been a cause for wonderment with me why Australians continually look to other and distant countries for adventure, when it is to be found in abundance ...

    Article : 1,453 words
  6. DR. ARNOLD'S DIARY.

    Governor Macquarie's true character is well illustrated in Dr. Joseph Arnold's diary, which has been recently acquired by the Mitchell Library at considerable expense. Macquarie ...

    Article : 1,454 words
  7. RELATIVITY.

    There is a story of a lady who, having heard that Faraday had demonstrated the difference between electricity and magnetism on being introduced to him asked what was ...

    Article : 1,128 words
  8. NAROOMA.

    Noorooma (Blue Water), more familiarly known as Narooma may be described as the ideal tourist resort Situated on the Wagonga River, 230 miles from Sydney, this beautiful ...

    Article : 557 words
  9. NOAH'S NEWSPAPER.

    Life in the Ark was becoming a bore, and things looked blue on the ocean, when all of a sudden, to Captain Noah, there came a brilliant notion; and "ho, ho, ho, ha, ha," ...

    Article : 350 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    What a rushing and crushing and pushing and brushing! What a hurry and flurry and desperate scurry What a dip and a clatter! What on earth is ...

    Article : 218 words
  11. WELL DONE.

    I found a blue wren's nest to-day, With three small eggs of speckled grey, I [?]eeped at them—then stole away! I saw a locust on the wall, ...

    Article : 91 words
  12. "PETER."

    Just before Christmas the lady next door gave me her rabbit, because she was moving to another suburb, and did not want to be bothered with it. Often had I sat at our ...

    Article : 542 words
  13. WET WEATHER.

    "It's raining," said Peter, "Oh, what can I do?" I don't like wet weather. And nurse doesn't, too. ...

    Article : 61 words
  14. VIEW FROM MT. DROMEDARY.

    Wild beauty of the Narooma district. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 10 words
  15. GOLF IN PAPUA.

    The first gof links—nine holes—was opened in Port Moresby, the capital of the Territory of Papua, in the middle of 1930, by a handful of devoted followers of the Royal and Ancient ...

    Article : 460 words
  16. PLATYPIDUCIARY.

    Two cunning old platypl, deep in a pool. Were very much down on their luck; For plans that they made and eggs that they laid ...

    Article : 105 words
  17. THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE.

    I dip the hand of my spirit in wells of thought. I light my vision's eyes at invisible fires; Like a bird in the tangled branches that ts caught. ...

    Article : 172 words
  18. BACK TO TOWN.

    I travelled to the mountains, and now I have come back; I loved the moonlit woodland, I loved the old bush-track. ...

    Article : 159 words
  19. THE SINGING SANDS.

    When down the length of Athabasca's Lake The north wind sweeps; The shoreward shallows into life awake, A voice of music rises from the dee[?]s. ...

    Article : 120 words
  20. CINDERELLA.

    The children gather at the glowing fire To ask a story e'e[?] their slumber time. So someone reads the tale, at their desire Of Cinderella and the midnight chime ...

    Article : 96 words
  21. CLOUDS.

    White clouds that drift across a sapphire sky. As in a baby's eye the fleeting smiles With moments of grave dreaming alternate; Soft clouds that wrap the far horizon's rim ...

    Article : 109 words
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