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  2. GUNBOAT DAYS.

    At daylight one summer morning the treaty port of Chinklang was just waking into life. From on board the junks moored to the river bank the smoke of hundreds of cooking fires ...

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  3. IN EARLY CHRONICLE.

    When Captain Matthew Flinders sailed from Plymouth on July l8. 1801. in command of the Investigator (which was no other than the worn-out Xenophon, dubiously repaired ...

    Article : 1,430 words
  4. COCK-FIGHTING.

    Cock-fighting, although banned by law, is an unsavoury pastime prevalent among the miners of the northern coalfields. The dense scrub that surounds the mining villages ...

    Article : 968 words
  5. FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    It is always interesting to make a study of the men who were responsible for the government of New South Wales in days gone by. Admittedly there have been good and bad ...

    Article : 941 words
  6. THOSE WAR BOOKS.

    Ian Hay and the author of the article on war books in Wednesday's "Herald" are quite right. The gloom and the horrors of many of those recent war books are overdone; the ...

    Article : 1,543 words
  7. SOME MEMBERS OF PARKES'S LONGEST MINISTRY.

    THE ABOVE PICTURE OF SIR HENRY PARKES AND HIS COLLEAGUES IN 1880 IS TAKEN FROM A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH CAREFULLY PRESERVED BY MR. E. HILLMAN, OF 23 EDNA-STREET, LEICHHARDT. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 34 words
  8. PETER THE GUINEA PIG.

    Something had gone wrong with the kitchen sink, and workmen were called in to set it to rights. Soon after their arrival in the back yard we saw them, crouching down on their ...

    Article : 624 words
  9. KANANGRA WALLS.

    The picture appearing on this page.supports the contention of Mr. R. G. Johnson that the Kanangra Walls, a vast and little known region, reached by way of Jenolan Caves, ...

    Article : 456 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    When Noah set sall in his wonderful Ark, the nights were long and the days were dark, so the animals tried to pass the time, staging a monster pantomime. Among the crowd ...

    Article : 285 words
  11. VIEW OF THE KANANGRA WALLS.

    This gives a good idea of little known sights worth seeing in our mountains. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 19 words
  12. "THE GENERAL."

    Mrs. Ward was a mother to all the orphaned things on her farm, cosily entrenched in a corner of the Lachlan River. Her husband said he grew wheat and reared cows mainly ...

    Article : 573 words
  13. NICHOLSON MUSEUM.

    The Nicholson Museum was formerly in the main University building in a room off the southern hall, the hall that has a large window covered with coats-of-arms in ...

    Article : 610 words
  14. DICKENS.

    When Dickens caused Micawber to emigrate with his family to Australia, there to erase his past mistakes by becoming a very respectable magistrate and an honourable ...

    Article : 445 words
  15. ELIZABETH ANN.

    Elizabeth Ann, How can You behave like that? Breaking your toys. ...

    Article : 196 words
  16. NIGHT'S CALL.

    Oh! to be with you, where the lake a silver sheen, Touches the mountains grassy green. Where the lofty trees sway gently to the ...

    Article : 160 words
  17. PERVERSITY.

    Though Vimy Ridge some years ago Was not where one would choose to loss, Though Master Jerry used to throw A lot of nasty stuff across. ...

    Article : 104 words
  18. SUMMER SKY.

    Blue as a madonna's robe. Enmeshed with wistful stars, So is the sky, the summer sky, Beyond my window bars. ...

    Article : 44 words
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