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  2. "Beautiful Blue Devil"

    Probably India sent us that feathered pest, the Buln Buln, to pay us back for rending them the water-hyacinth (Queenslander, 2.1.36). Originally ...

    Article : 239 words
  3. SO.THEY.SAY.

    In the early nineties I was droving around Bourke and Brewarrina, tout things being slack I started pig hunting at sixpence a scalp. This paid ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 285 words
  4. Modern Crusoes

    According to the cables a white man, living alone on a lonely island near Fiji, urgently signalled a passing steamer. A boat was put ashore to ...

    Article : 143 words
  5. Marathon Fasten

    How tang can snakes go without food or water? Some authorities declare that in this respect pythons are superior to all other living creatures, ...

    Article : 177 words
  6. Well Named

    The report that the Federal Government has ordered a new patrol vessel for policing the waters of Torres Strait recalls that one of the most ...

    Article : 232 words
  7. White Man's Magic

    [?]acky was sent to a station about 30 miles away for a supply of tobacco. In due course he returned with the weed and a letter, which he gave ...

    Article : 156 words
  8. World's Best Drink

    Country people, accustomed to their own tank-trapped rain water, usually find the filtered pipewater of large towns or cities quite distasteful, ...

    Article : 95 words
  9. Stone-age Relics

    Relics of the days when the aborigines held undisputed possession of the southern coastal portions of Queensland are becoming increasingly ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. Twists' Paradise

    To an old Northerner it is good to see tropical Queensland getting its rightful place on the tourist map at last. How tired we grew of hearing ...

    Article : 159 words
  11. Doing Tilings in Style

    Bill had lived in an hotel in one of the ports of Papua all his 30 odd years. When his father died Bill became the owner and carried on the business. He ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. A Scrub Phenomenon

    Mr. Harry Barnard, once of Coomooboolaroo, but later of Rio Station, has always had a good word for the prickly pear, and maintained it affected ...

    Article : 162 words
  13. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 657 words
  14. No Laughing Matter

    It is said that Ireland presented the bagpipes to the Scots, who are not yet "awake" to the joke. That may be. but the black boys, who were ...

    Article : 116 words
  15. The Hunter Hunted

    Off Murray Island, Torres Strait, sardines, which literally teem in those waters, provide great harvests for the gulls, but the birds have to run the ...

    Article : 104 words
  16. A Knock-Out

    Although the aborigines of the north have some sort of treatment for most bodily aches and pains I have never heard of an aboriginal undergoing ...

    Article : 191 words
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