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  2. The World of Science

    THE transmission of the organisms of disease through the bites of flies is well known. For instance, the sleeping sickness of Uganda is conveyed by the ...

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  3. Better Than Gold

    Farne was reading in his cabin when, without so much as a knock, the door burst open, and Farne, jumping up, found himself facing Mark Roston. ...

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  4. PILOTING IN THE SAILER DAYS.

    OCCUPYING almost the entire space of an end wall in the large room used by the members of the Port Phillip pilot service as their secretary's office and ...

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  5. SHIPS OF THE PAST

    In this correspondence earlier in the year the name of Captain Tregurtha has been appreciably mentioned. By an interesting coincidence his great-grandson ...

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  6. British Trident.

    Sir,--Well, here goes. I left Liverpool in 1853. I was born on 26th September, 1849. That makes me 85 last September. I arrived in Adelaide in 1853, Stayed in ...

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  7. Utopia.

    Sir,--My mother, Mrs. C. McCalman, arrived as a passenger on the Utopia at Portland, in the year 1862. She still enjoys good health, aged 93 years, and ...

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  8. Bolton.

    Sir,--My grandparents, James Pritchard and his wife, sailed from England to Australia in the ship Bolton, in 1847 I remember my grandmother saying it ...

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  9. Itrato.

    Sir,--My parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman McLean, of Glasgow, brought me and brother and sister--very small children at the time--out in the ship Itrato ...

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  10. FOR THE VERY YOUNG.

    Kinikot the Dragon, Billy Penguin, Blinky Bill the Koala, the Little People of Chimney Town, and the queer creatures of Guinland are some of the ...

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  11. Atalanta.

    Sir,--In reply to A.S. (Caramut): My parents came out in the Atalanta in 18[?]. I was never on the Ladybird. I was born in 1860, and was the fifth ...

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  12. Lightning.

    Sir,--My parents and myself left Killarncy and sailed in the famous clipper Lightning from Liverpool on 9th August, 1865, and landed in Melbourne after 78 ...

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  13. Asia.

    Sir,--The reading of "Ships of the Post" has been a great joy to us all, and we wish "The Age" continual success. Seeing the Asia mentioned by J. ...

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  14. Mary Nixon, 1841.

    Sir,--I was greatly Interested In the Issue of 27th October, re the early ships and letters from early settlers. I can give most of them a long start. My ...

    Article : 140 words
  15. Donald McKay.

    Sir,--My mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleine, came out from Ireland, sailing from Liverpool, in the Donald McKay, at the age of 19 years, with her mother. ...

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  16. Great Britain.

    Sir,--There have been many references to the Great Britain, so the following reference to Captain H. Chapman taken from the shipping records ...

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  17. The Lightning.

    Sir,--Wm, Rain, my father, came out in the Lightning, which weighed anchor at Princess landing stage, Liverpool, in charge of a steam tug and commenced ...

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  18. Fed Jacket

    Sir,--I have been very interested in references to the good ship Red Jacket. My mother came out in her on her first trip. She made a very quick ...

    Article : 259 words
  19. MUSIC IN GERMANY.

    All concerts given in Germany will in future be subject to local control, says the Berlin correspondent of the London "Observer." ...

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  20. First Immigrant Ship.

    Sir,--I have seen many references in your paper to early settlers, and I would like to trace the ship in which my grand- mother came our. I always understand ...

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  21. Red Jacket.

    Sir,--Seeing the picture of the clipper ship Red Jacket reminded me that my late mother was a passenger from Donegal(Ireland) to Australia. The Red ...

    Article : 63 words
  22. South Sea.

    Sir,--I am interested in the old ships. I have not seen the South Sea mentioned. My father and mother came out on her, sailing from Liverpool in ...

    Article : 214 words
  23. Constant or Constance.

    Sir,--My family left England during November, 1854 in the sailing ship Constant or Constance. We were anchored off Plymouth on Guy Fawkes day, and ...

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  24. ACTION OF X-RAYS.

    That kind of artificial light which we Australians still call by the name given to it by its discoverer, Rontgen, of Wurzburg, in token of his ignorance of its true ...

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  25. TOBACCONISTS' BLIND CLIENTS.

    A famous London firm of toboc-conists tells me that they have several blind clients, most of whom are regular purchasers of cigars and cigarettes ...

    Article : 196 words
  26. Fulwood.

    Sir,--In the series of letters in "The Age" under the heading "Ships of the Past," I have not seen any reference to the ship Fulwood (or Falwood), in which ...

    Article : 156 words
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