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  2. NORTH AUSTRALIA.

    To a person who arrives at Darwin after a long journey overland the capital of the north makes an immediate appeal. Situated on a promontory raised some fifty feet above ...

    Article : 1,342 words
  3. AUSTRALIA IN ART.

    The present place of Australia, in a backwater of the stream of art, is settled by Inevitable facts of geography and history. We are too far from Europe to comprehend ...

    Article : 1,207 words
  4. EAST AND WEST.

    We passed from the Nullarbor Plain the Second night out from Adelaide, and by breaklast-time the next morning we were once more amongst the mulga and mallee and black ...

    Article : 1,411 words
  5. OMAR KHAYYAM.

    It will come as a great surprise to all lovers of poetry to learn that the old Persian philosopher and poet, Omar Khayyam, spent years in wandering in the "unhappy valley ...

    Article : 1,440 words
  6. MRS. ARMSTRONG'S DEBUT.

    THIS PHOTOGRAPH OF MELBA IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES WAS TAKEN AT BALLARAT. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 15 words
  7. ST. FRANCIS.

    The Bishop of Birmingham, preaching in his own cathedral, has launched what is described as "an amazing attack" on St. Francis of Assisi. The latter's seventh centenary, he ...

    Article : 913 words
  8. MELBA.

    There are probably some people who can remember Melba's first appearance on the concert platform in Sydney in the early 'Eighties Hardly anybody, perhaps, saw her and ...

    Article : 1,377 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Oh, such fun. to-day I'm seven. Daddy said "Good morning, Kevin, Happy birthday. Come and look, The fairies left a great big book. ...

    Article : 114 words
  10. REVESBY ABBEY.

    The beautiful mansion known as Revesby Abbey, near Boston, in Lincolnshire, might fill for Australians the place that Sulgrave Mauor occupies in the hearts of Americans ...

    Article : 1,108 words
  11. THE NASTY MOPOKE.

    When little birds in the trees are singing, Or after elusive gants go winging, The mopoke sits with his head in his wing, And mopes and mopes, the nasty old thing. ...

    Article : 124 words
  12. THE FROG.

    Moonlight falling on the pond Makes a shining sky; In the water-world beyond Woolly cloudlets fly. ...

    Article : 99 words
  13. SCIENCE NOTES.

    Salvarsan may have a rival in polonium, the radioactive element isolated by Madame Curlie, which is now being tried out in treatment of syphilis. ...

    Article : 706 words
  14. BETTY AND THE SUNFLOWER.

    It was a very hot morning, and the first day of little Betty's holidays from school; so she selected her favourite dolly and book, and started off to the swing, which was un ...

    Article : 571 words
  15. MY SON.

    Long years ago my son came to me to gladden my heart, to give me the greatest loy, and at times the greatest sorrow of my life. What a little follow he was, and how ...

    Article : 304 words
  16. THE SUNDOWNER.

    The sun sinks down behind a rosy sky, A figure moves alone on yonder hill, With wenry steps and oft-repeated sign; But strong in heart, and with determined ...

    Article : 172 words
  17. PRICKLY PEAR PARASITE.

    Outside the population problem, nothing is of more serious import to Australia than its prickly pear pest. The "Chico," or Arizona cochineal insect, so far as Queensland ...

    Article : 196 words
  18. ROSE BAY.

    I think some artist, rising ere the night Had drawn nor vell from off the water's face Ascended from the Bay to some high place Where dawn's first smile could greet his eager ...

    Article : 124 words
  19. MASQUERADE.

    Dawn came down the star-strown way, ln mask and domino of grey; A most demure and Quaker day— Cold, unbeguiling. ...

    Article : 94 words
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