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  2. WAR IN SPAIN.

    DESTRUCTION is the hall-mark or war. but to-day in Spain it is an unlucky town that shows more ghastly scars or deeper wounds than certain ...

    Article : 1,573 words
  3. THE GREAT SEAL.

    The decision of the British Government, in 1786, to establish a colony on the eastern coast of New South Wales, was followed by the creation ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,362 words
  4. THE FIRST FLEET ENTERS THE HEADS

    This old print, a copy of which is in the possession of Mr. Walter Ives, of Summer Hill, represents vessels of the First Fleet. entering Sydney Heads on January 26, 1788. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  5. EARLY DAYS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    THE Mitchell Library, Sydney—through the kindness of Dr. David Russell, of Markinch, Fife, Scotland—is to receive on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the foundation of New South Wales a copy of some interesting letters written from Sydney in the years 1867 and 1868 by Alexander Berry ...

    Article : 2,323 words
  6. OLDEST SYDNEY.

    When, this year, visitors to Sydney look for any remaining part of the city that dates from the earliest times they will be curiously disappointed. Actually, ...

    Article : 1,013 words
  7. "HOWLERS" ABOUT AUSTRALIA.

    A British Columbia school teacher sends to the "Herald" the following list of "howlers" which he collected while marking grade 8 examination papers. ...

    Article : 521 words
  8. For the Children

    When I go with mummy to afternoon tea, I must eat the things that are given to me, And I try very hard not to stare and stare At the beautiful cakes that are spread out ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. STREAM-LINING OF TRANSPORT.

    Stream-lining is becoming more and more a feature of transport. In some cases, as in fast trains and cars, it has important power saving qualities, but ...

    Article : 941 words
  10. I WISH—

    I wish I were a frog, A frog, a frog— I wish I were a frog, Green and cool; ...

    Article : 50 words
  11. CUNDLE'S GUN.

    On the main road north from Taree lies the hamlet of Cundle, or Cundletown, where Henry Kendall spent many days and wrote some of his best poems. The town also ...

    Article : 176 words
  12. AN ABDICATION AFTERMATH.

    Although it is generally known that a penny with the name of King Edward VIII. engraved thereon was issued iii New Guinea, it is not common knowledge that Fiji also ...

    Article : 183 words
  13. IN TRUST.

    Here on this shore which years ago Witnessed a nation's birth, We stand to greet in fellowship The nations of the earth. ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. POINCIANAS AT DARWIN.

    Darwin's foreshores are alight with the flowers of the poinciana trees. These trees grow to sixty feet high and some spread out, umbrella-shaped ...

    Article : 336 words
  15. THE HAPPY FAMILY.

    Many a time while lunching under a tree on the overland we had the lively company of either the happy family or the twelve apostles, both of which associate in companies of about ...

    Article : 378 words
  16. TO THE BROWN HILLS OF CALIFORNIA.

    Though on your breast no single flower lay. To show how fair, you could be in the spring, When poppy-gold your curves embosoming To lure your lovers in a lover's way. ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. A STREAMLINED TRAIN.

    'The Denver Zephyr" is a good example of the streamlining of American trains referred to by Mr. Goddard in an adjoing column. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 25 words
  18. RETURN.

    Out of this mist that folds the dearest known Familiar landmarks as in a stranger's arms, Taking the islands and the Harbour Stone, Leaving the surf alone to sound alarms; ...

    Article : 121 words
  19. FAIRY BUTTONS.

    The night's a fairy cloak. I think, And when the evening's nigh. The daylight dons it hastily And wanders off on high, ...

    Article : 41 words
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