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  2. EDEN TO BOMBALA.

    To many of the touring public, the main roads connecting the southern tablelands with the coast are well known. The "Big Jack" (Bombala-Merlmbula), Tantawangalo ...

    Article : 1,061 words
  3. SQUATTLESEA MERE.

    During a recent visit to Warrnambool, I voiced a desire to see Squattlesea Mere, my father's old station, nenr Port Fairy. My hostess. Mrs. Fleetwood, a daughter of the ...

    Article : 1,238 words
  4. NOISE.

    Silence, a great. olly, stagnant sen washes everywhere, covering the city a thousand fathoms deep so that it seems like some Atlantis crumbling noiselessly under the feet ...

    Article : 1,456 words
  5. JAPAN.

    It is not at all a usual experience for a visitor to Japan, and especially a woman, to be a guest at a dinner party in a Japanese home. I was one of the favoured few, and ...

    Article : 1,715 words
  6. A RIVERINA TRANSFORMATION.

    View of stored water from the Resident Engineer's verandah. It is the intention of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission shortly to take up the 2ft gauge railway, which has been used for construction purposes, and to convert the formation into a road of access. It is anticipated that a large number of motorists will then visit the dam and hydro-electric power station, and it is probable that provision will bo mado for a motor camp on a suitable aroa fronting the stored water. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 99 words
  7. BIRD PESTS.

    Bird allens, introduced from overseas, are increasing apace in New South Wales, and in the eastern States generally, and one cannot fail to be struck with their rapid spread. ...

    Article : 960 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    We'll go for a sail On the tall of a whale. And roam o'er the oceans wide. We'll steer by the sun ...

    Article : 189 words
  9. MORE "HOWLERS."

    In my room stands a stupendous monument to Industry, three piles, each three and a half feet high, of worked examination papers —thousands of papers, representing hours of ...

    Article : 941 words
  10. VILA.

    Mo.qultos, heat, and cockroaches, a uarrow road, flanked by unsightly stores and shining palm trees, brlliiant-hued crotons, and everywhere picturesque hills rising from out a ...

    Article : 731 words
  11. THE REWARD.

    Just say a word of cheer to someone, Tolling on life's way, And you'll find that life grows brighter, Brighter, day by day. ...

    Article : 99 words
  12. AN AUSTRALIAN STORY.

    Long years ago, before the first white man had set foot lu Australia, a quaint little gumnut fell from its parent tree down to earth. And there it lay, in the warm, dark ...

    Article : 565 words
  13. PERSONALITY IN ART.

    In "The Strayed Reveller"—a poem that over-tops the spotted orchids, the shy fleldflovvers, of the greater Victorians—Matthew Arnold says, ...

    Article : 520 words
  14. ROMANCE.

    A recent visitor has expressed the view that there is no romance in Australia outside the racecourse. There is no romaneo in the brigalows, ...

    Article : 222 words
  15. SELF-WINDING CLOCK.

    A self-winding clock, "run by what is virtually a glycerin thermometer, has been invented by a Swiss engineer, Karl Heinrich Moler. It utilises the energy oaptured by the ...

    Article : 162 words
  16. BUNGOOL.

    Where the slow-winding Hawkesbury twines an arm, Whosd limpid wavelets round the low shores run. ...

    Article : 117 words
  17. IN ABSENCE.

    Apart are we, but fast and free Fly little thoughts so swlft and fond, No space, no barriers there be But Love can wing her way beyond. ...

    Article : 40 words
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