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  2. THE AEROPLANE.

    The exhibitions of flying given by Mr. Harry Hawker emphasises in a marked way Australia's distance from the centres of knowledge and science. ...

    Article : 538 words
  3. GENERAL'S MISSION.

    The only effective or possible means of defending Australia arc those on which General Sir Ian Hamilton is it present engaged—the ...

    Article : 516 words
  4. WORLD-WIDE NOTES. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

    Au experiment which may prove [?]poch-making in the history of medicine has been performed before the Federation of American Societies for ...

    Article : 212 words
  5. Salt Soil for Crisp Radishes.

    In many a section of this, and, in fact, other countries where the soil is fertile, it has been difficult a recent years to grow as fine ...

    Article : 297 words
  6. Circumstances Lied in Life Melodrama.

    One of those melodramas in which, the heroine is wrongfully accused of murder and survives three arts full of woes has been staged in real life ...

    Article : 293 words
  7. Discovery by a Woman.

    Mr. Bellinshurst, a geologist, who, under the instructions of the Official Receiver, has been engaged in a survey of the estate of the late ...

    Article : 161 words
  8. GREAT AMBER DIAMOND NEEDS REGAL BUYER.

    Enormous in size, and glorious in colour, a diamond is just now in London awaiting the advent of some princely purchaser. It was found in ...

    Article : 269 words
  9. A War Correspondent's Beginning.

    When the Zulu war breke out in 1879, the editor of the "Daily News" sent for a man who had solicited work from him. The man ...

    Article : 166 words
  10. AUTOMATIC HOP-PICKER.

    After the steam plough, the electric harvester, and the mechanical milking machine, the automatic honpicker has come to do away with ...

    Article : 218 words
  11. "LIFE EXTENSION" INSTITUTE FOUNDED.

    A new organisation to prolong human life scientifically, known as the Life Extension Institute, has been incorporated in New York State. ...

    Article : 139 words
  12. Lassoing Alligators.

    Shooting alligators is tame sport compared with the met hods adopted by Mr. Lee and his two sons, who have an alligator business in ...

    Article : 441 words
  13. A Lake of Soap.

    One of Nature's marvels is to be seen in the north-east corner of the State of Washington. It is a lake which bears the name of Soap Lake, ...

    Article : 308 words
  14. Why Rhodes Was Single.

    Some good stories of Cecil Rhodes are told by one of his private secretaries, Mr. Gordon le Sueur, F.R.G.S. ...

    Article : 267 words
  15. PICTURES OF 200 B.C. WILL BE PRESERVED.

    Steps are being taken to send an archaeological expedition to the Jegmari Cave in the Ramdayal Hills, Orissa, to secure as complete a set ...

    Article : 112 words
  16. CHAMPAGNE FOR ASKING.

    Celebrating his fifty-sixth birthday by entertaining old people in the village near Welbeck, the Duke of Portland at Whitwell said that whenever ...

    Article : 66 words
  17. THE QUEST FOR OIL.

    The Government ol South Australia is to be congratulated on having secured the services of Dr. Arthur Wade, to report on the probability of ...

    Article : 477 words
  18. THE PORT OF BRISTOL.

    Bristol, in her choice of delegates, has shown great perspicacity. Mr. H. L. Rosely (president of the Society of Bristolians, in London), and ...

    Article : 369 words
  19. NEW SOURCE OF RADIUM SUPPLY.

    Paradox Valley, in South-Western Colorado, is said to have become the richest radium-bearing field in the world. A small supply, from ...

    Article : 288 words
  20. PREHISTORIC RIVER NEAR SO[?] WAY FIRTH.

    Excavations for the sea wall constructed by the Cumberland County Council at Allonby, a little waterplace on the Solway Firth, revealed ...

    Article : 130 words
  21. CHANCE FOR INVENTIONS.

    There is a prize awaiting the inventor who can suggest to the leading omnibus company of London a method of making the bus top ...

    Article : 348 words
  22. Fire-Eating Commander.

    There was a Nelson-like Welshman named Griffith in the reigns of King William and Queen Anne. Griffith was a poor fisherman, ...

    Article : 322 words
  23. LAW TO CHECK FIRE FOE.

    Recently, in England, there came into force one of the most beneficent Acts ever passed by Parliament. By the Fabrics (Misdescription) Act a ...

    Article : 216 words
  24. POWER FROM THE ASSOUAN DAM.

    The Assouan Dam on the Nile can be called upon to furnish a large amount of hydraulic power for operuting an clectric plant; it ...

    Article : 205 words
  25. SERUM FAILURE.

    M. Marino, of the Pasteur Institute, in Paris, has proved the failure of anti-tuberculous serum. The discovery turns on the fact hith[?] ...

    Article : 69 words
  26. WIRELESS RECORD HELD BY AUSTRALIA.

    With characteristic enterprise, Australia in beating all other countries in her wireless equipment, every point of her 12,280 miles of seaboard being ...

    Article : 78 words
  27. RADIUM CURE.

    Dr. A. Jacobi, an em'nent New York physician, announces that he has cured himself of a cancerous growth in the nose by means of the ...

    Article : 68 words
  28. DOMINIONS HOUSE.

    While in Australia, Earl Grey has [?]een urging the claims of his scheme or the establishment of a Dominions House in London. ...

    Article : 67 words
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