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  2. OUT OF DOORS

    This extraordinary lizard is called by the Hacks "Due-all." It is a fair-sized lizard growing to about 15 in in length. The front legs are small, but the back ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 367 words
  3. ROUND THE CITY.

    Breaking down old buildings s tirs up reminiscences. The scattered masonry at the corner of Grenfell and King William streets Is full of them. Recently in The Register "Kuraya," with fine imagination, peopled the historic spent with familiar identities of long ago, and with saeh ...

    Article : 396 words
  4. TWENTY-EIGHT WASHINGTON

    In an amusing bulletin, issued by the Postmaster-General at Washington, attention is called to the rapidly growing crop of new towns in the United States. Every ...

    Article : 499 words
  5. PELICANS AND CORMORANTS.

    My enthusiasm as a Nature lover got a rebuff this week when, meeting a Murray River identity in the city, conversation turned to pelicans and cormorants, their ...

    Article : 201 words
  6. BRINGING IN THE COWS.

    It was the first morning of my brief visit to the farm, and rising soon after daybreak I dressed and went out into the freshness of the morning. It was not ...

    Article : 650 words
  7. NATIVE SPEAR FIGHT.

    One of the sensations which relieve the tedium of isolation and loneliness of the Northern Territory is a native spear fight —not just an innocuous spectacle, but the ...

    Article : 192 words
  8. THE OLD FLOUR MILLS.

    A faned cutting, taken from The Register, of 1865, also brought in by Mrs. Hughes, refers to Die sale on Wednesday, December 13, of the "magnificent property ...

    Article : 163 words
  9. "THE BEACHCOMBER."

    Mrs. Bertha Banfield, widow of the famous author of "Confessions of a Beachcomber," is still on the island of his dreams, and where he sleeps, having ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. WRONG AGAIN.

    Then, proceeds Mrs. Hughes, Mr. Sounders is wrong again about Levi & Crimp. They were both in Grenfell street. Crimp's place was just cast of the present Imperial ...

    Article : 171 words
  11. DRINKWATER'S DIVORCE.

    A decree nisi was granted by Mr. Justice Hill in the Divorce Court, London, under the new Divorce Act, allowing a wife a divorce on the single ground of adultery, ...

    Article : 312 words
  12. HAVE YOU HEARD THIS ONE?

    A man up in London for the Cattle Show went into a West-End restaurant, and, on looking over the bill of fare, found that a sole was 4/, a chop 2/, and other ...

    Article : 111 words
  13. IS THE FOX "FOXY?"

    Few animals arc said to have greater naming, or to be endowed with such alert senses—hearing, smelling, and seeing—as the fox. It may be so; indeed, as far as ...

    Article : 641 words
  14. ELECTION JOKES.

    With elections in the atmosphere—the particular inspiration for this incident was the recent municipal contest in Adelaide—the talk over coffee drifted to ...

    Article : 128 words
  15. MACHINERY IN MINIATURE.

    Many remarkable pieces of machinery in miniature made the Model Engineer's Exhibition, which opened on January 4, at the Royal Horticultural Hall, ...

    Article : 272 words
  16. GEOGRAPHY ACCORDING TO THE SMALL BOY.

    Sometimes you got a lot of amusement with your tram ride. The other light I heard a surprised father reprimanding his small son for saying that a certain ...

    Article : 173 words
  17. BABY AS WITNESS.

    A tiny child stated on its mother's knee surprised the Bench at Tottenham, Kngland. The woman said her husband denied ...

    Article : 64 words
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