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  2. TEN YEARS AFTER.

    TEN years ago the late Sir W. McPherson made a series of tours of Victoria, which were given the general title, "Bad Roads Tour." It was largely ...

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  3. LILLYDALE.

    Friday, 1st December, 1882, was a memorable day for Lillydale. It meant the opening of the railway from Hawthorn to the pretty little town. A special ...

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  4. OLD VICTORIAN SCHOOLDAYS

    Sir,--I started at the West Brunswick State school, in Victoria-street, in the early nineties. The head master then was Mr. Fields, and on his retirement ...

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  5. Comet Morehouse.

    UNLIKE Halley's Comet, which was such a conspicuous object in the southern heavens in 1910, and at one time had a tail which stretched almost across ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. RE-LIVING THE EARLY DAYS.

    Sir,--The photograph which you published in "The Age" of Nicholson's Corner bring back old memories. I was postman on The Block in 1882, also on ...

    Article : 222 words
  7. London Gossip

    Mr. John Buchan's selection to be the successor of Lord Bessborough as Governor-General of Canada will no doubt prove successful, for Mr. Buchan is one ...

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  8. Life, Letters and Music in Paris To-day.

    WHILE the battle still rages over the thorny question of the women's vote, the new and handsome office of the Women's Movement in the ...

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  9. Emerald Hill.

    Sir,--I started school about six weeks after Nott-street school was opened. I remember the school being built. There was a big drain where it stands, and my ...

    Article : 281 words
  10. Promenades of the 80's.

    Sir,--It was the custom of the fashionable section and musical world to meet every Saturday morning in Collins-street and "do the Block," as it was termed. ...

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  11. Fairfield's Jubilee Year.

    Sir,--I have not so far seen any reference to the Fairfield school. It is the jubilee of this school this year, and I have heard some talk of a reunion. I ...

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  12. St. Kilda.

    Sir,--Fifty-nine years ago I went to Acland-street common school. The head master was that fine old gentleman Mr. Hadfield, of whom ...

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  13. Geelong.

    Sir,--I read with great interest an article about Geelong, in your issue of 23rd inst., in which Mr. Hall mentions Mrs. Nougher, of Stick-jaw fame, ...

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  14. Coliseum, Bourke-street.

    Sir,--In "The Age" of Saturday, 23rd March, your correspondent Frank Marks is, in my opinion, incorrect in stating the Coliseum was on the ...

    Article : 296 words
  15. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--your correspondent John A. F. Scarlett brings back fond memories of our old school. I remember all the teachers at Brighton-road he mentions, ...

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  16. Back to Bell-street.

    Sir,--We were highly interested to read all the letters about old Bell-street school, and it put the feelings of old-time days into our hearts. Our people were ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. Hotham Reunion.

    Sir,--I think your correspondent got mixed with Mick McInerney and Dr. P. V. Mick, who played with Hotham, and I fancy Carlton also, and was a ...

    Article : 342 words
  18. TO THE EDITOR OF THE AGE.

    Sir,--I am very pleased to see that some of our old friends of Fitzroy are contributing to this correspondence in "The Age," and helping us old chaps to ...

    Article : 339 words
  19. St. George's School.

    Sir,--Like your correspondent when he says we are delighted in looking backwards on our old school days, St. George's, Carlton, was my first entry ...

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  20. "'EMPIRE REVIEW."

    Captain M. D. Kennedy suggests in an article in the March number of this review, that Great Britain should make up her mind to treat Japan as a ...

    Article : 208 words
  21. HANSARD SLIPS.

    It is not often that those immaculate gentlemen who produce the British "Hansard"--the verbatim Parliamentary reports--slip up, writes our London ...

    Article : 120 words
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