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  2. TALE OF TWO RIVERS.

    TWO rivers flow through Nowra. One, the Shoalhaven, comes rushing down from Braidwood, foams over waterfalls and rapids, dashes through a gorge ...

    Article : 1,619 words
  3. TWO CITIES OF THE PLAINS.

    There is rivalry between two fair cities of the Western Plains—Bathurst and Orange. It is a healthy rivalry which stimulates progress. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 897 words
  4. SHADED BEAUTY OF A WESTERN GARDEN.

    A photograph of Machattie Park, Bathurst, which is described in the accompanying article on Bathurst and Orange. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  5. ALIVE TO TELL THE TALE.—I.

    [This is the first of a series of graphic stories of men who missed death by inches in the Great War. A second lieutenant in the 39th Home Defence Squadron, W. J. Tempest went up from the Hornchurch Aerodrome one October night in 1916 to meet eleven Zeppelins on ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,810 words
  6. APPIN VILLAGE.

    The earliest date to which records of the Appin district refer is 1811, when 1,000 acres were granted to William Broughton, and 200 acres to John ...

    Article : 828 words
  7. LONG DISTANCE FLIGHTS.

    Maps showing the course of the R.A.F. bombers which flew from Egypt to Darwin generally indicated the flight of the machines by means of a curved line. ...

    Article : 920 words
  8. THE ODD ART OF THE SCRIMSHONER

    Cooped up in a smelly ship for years at a stretch in the old whaling days, the monotonous life drove many sailors to find solace in handicrafts to while ...

    Article : 674 words
  9. ARMISTICE AND AFTER.

    Shortly after the Armistice, permission was granted to officer, of the Q.M.A.A.C. to visit the battlefields. By degrees, making short journeys from Rouen and Calais, I succeeded ...

    Article : 568 words
  10. A BURLY CHINESE BUSHRANGER.

    Li Hang Chiak did not belong to the coolie class of Chinese. He was a dominant figure among his countrymen, who sluiced the gravel at Lambing ...

    Article : 568 words
  11. VALLEY OF SCHOOLS.

    Ninety years ago, when Benjamin Singleton ploughed a furrow two miles long to the first school on Patrick's Plains, he did not fore[?] the day when ...

    Article : 567 words
  12. WHALE'S TEETH THAT TELL A TALE.

    The craftsmanship of the "scrimshoner," described above, is illustrated by these pictures on whale's teeth of the old whaling days. The teeth weight 2½lb each, and are in a perfect state of preservation. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 39 words
  13. SWALLOWS" REVENGE ON SPARROWS.

    More than a century ago naturalists remarked on the enmity between sparrows and swallows. Many instances have been reported of sparrows fiercely attacking ...

    Article : 220 words
  14. MARAYONG.

    Who listens for a lofty note, Whose car a softer cadence fills? That shadowy range is too remote To steel the calm from these low hills. ...

    Article : 163 words
  15. LEST WE FORGET.

    Blood red flower from Flanders soil Speak to us of sacrifice. By the scars of battles' toil Blood red flower from Flanders soil ...

    Article : 58 words
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