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  2. ANSWERS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 161 words
  3. NOTES & QUERIES

    THE BLIND TRAVELLER.—"Alice F." (Perth). — James Holman, who became known as "the Blind Traveller," was born in 1786 at Exeter. He served, in ...

    Article : 935 words
  4. "DIGGER HUNTING."

    EIGHTY years ago the search for diggers who had no licence to dig was being pursued on the goldfields of Victoria. "Digger-hunting," as it was ...

    Article : 1,750 words
  5. HUMAN AVOIRDUPOIS.

    Readers who followed the recent correspondence on this page on the subject of human avoirdupois will be interested in this letter published in the "Field" ...

    Article : 335 words
  6. READERS' QUESTIONS AND NOTES.

    "Nemesis" (Adelaide).—James Anthony Froude's surname is pronounced as if written "Frood." A.S. (Adaminaby, N.S.W.).—You have ...

    Article : 408 words
  7. A WAPPING WHALE.

    "The P.L.A. Monthly" in its July "Calendar of the Past" records that on July 25, 1746, a young whale, 18ft. long, after having sunk three boats, was killed in the Thames, ...

    Article : 37 words
  8. SAILERS OF THE SIXTIES.

    Sir.—The mention of the schooner Flying Squirrel in "The Australasian's" review of "Vanished Fleets" reminds me that in the sixties this vessel traded between ...

    Article : 668 words
  9. BURIED TREASURES.

    Mr. Lawrence G. Green, in the "Empire Review," writes of the strange existence of the inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha, an island in the Southern Pacific, almost ...

    Article : 587 words
  10. SEATS IN PARLIAMENT.

    The "Spectator" reprints from its issue of July 9, 1831, a portion of its report of a sitting of the House of Commons:- Mr. Hume, on Monday, complained that ...

    Article : 263 words
  11. MORMON ANNIVERSARY.

    Parades, pageantry, and aerial exercises were promoted in Utah in celebration of the "Covered Wagon Days" of 84 years ago. Following "Homecoming Week," of ...

    Article : 152 words
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