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  2. MORE FUGITIVES.

    Discretion, being the better part of valor, even in the eyes of the colonial of a regiment, it was resolved not to disturb the victorious blacks at their meals, but to retreat while the road was ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 605 words
  3. The Overlanders in '38.

    WILLIAM PITT FAITHFULL, who was born in 1806, on his father's farm at Canterbury, and who ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 220 words
  4. New Ideas in Wheels.

    AT would not seem possible that the construction of the modern bicycle could be changed so as to make any ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 801 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 280 words
  6. CANNIBALISM.

    ANNIBALISM has always a distinctly horrible effect upon the imagination at first, but when closely ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 981 words
  7. A FATAL RIDE.

    When young Faithfull had finished his schooling, at the age of 15, he was placed in bis uncle's office—Robert Jenkins, a flourishing merchant in Sydney, who had more than one cattle station ...

    Article : 202 words
  8. RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

    THE Lights of Sydney," by Lilian Turner, Cassell and Company, London, &c: Miss Lilian Turner is to be ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,228 words
  9. THE OVERLANDERS.

    The sudden, dash, into the new Port Philip country made toy Batsman and Fawkner in '35, followed by Mitchell's exploration, filled the young squatters of the time with such excitement that ...

    Article : 207 words
  10. The Conjuror's Revenge.

    "HOW, ladies and gentlemen," said the conjuror, "having shown you that the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 728 words
  11. THE PORT PHILLIP FEVER.

    The course steered by the Overlanders being south-west from the Goulburn plains, through Yass and Gundagai to the Murrumbidgee, and thence to the Hume, it followed that the Goulburn ...

    Article : 132 words
  12. THE WINDING SWAMP.

    By the first week in April the party had crossed the Hume and the Ovens without meeting with any trouble, of having any reason to anticipate it. Thirty miles beyond the latter river they camped ...

    Article : 217 words
  13. LA GRANDE ROQUETTE.

    HE great interest still surrounding La Grande Roquette is that it contains the condemned ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 620 words
  14. SPEARS AND MUSKETS.

    No signs of Faithful being seen on the following morning, Crosley resolved to break up the camp and move on slowly, and orders were given accordingly. After an early breakfast the shepherds ...

    Article : 166 words
  15. A DUEL.

    They were plucky fellows, all of them; but there was one in particular who distinguished himself by leaving his shelter find coming out into the open, where the stood and poised his spear at ...

    Article : 129 words
  16. SAUVE QUI PEUT.

    The fight, meanwhile, had become general, but the blacks come on in such numbers—there were 150 of them, or so it seemed—that there was no chance of beating them off. They shoved so much ...

    Article : 177 words
  17. A DAY TOO LATE.

    Scattering in different directions, they tried to recover their track from the Ovens, in the hope of meeting Faithful and getting assistance; but after a day and a night in the bush, only one of ...

    Article : 170 words
  18. "She" Dead.

    "She" is dead, according to official news from Pretoria. Her real name was Majajie. She was the mystical queen of the so called Woodbush tribes of South Africa, and she is known to have ...

    Article : 79 words
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