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  2. So They Say

    Naming children has its humours and tragedies. To have heard of the christening of Thomas Catt and Wil liam Gote may sound too far fetched, ...

    Article : 221 words
  3. Mad Springs

    I had often heard of mud springs, but until quite recently had never seen one. I am told that in some parts of Queensland they have to be ...

    Article : 101 words
  4. TO CONTRIBUTORS

    Endorse the first slip of EACH paragraph with your name and address. Payment is made monthly upon cuttings of published matter ...

    Article : 34 words
  5. Darwin Drawbacks

    Darwin seems to be in trouble with the white ants. Firstly they ate through a 5in. concrete wall in search of a delicacy and found instead a mass of ...

    Article : 307 words
  6. Adders and Waterholes

    Forty odd miles from a small south western town is a station of consider able area, which holds a few peculiar records. In the days when its ...

    Article : 231 words
  7. Dead Matches

    An old gardener we had on our station used to place every dead match back in the box after use. Questioned as to the reason, he said ...

    Article : 96 words
  8. A Gruesome Relic

    One of the most gruesome relics ever found in Torres Strait was the discovery on Mer Island, in the early forties, by the officers of H.M.S ...

    Article : 209 words
  9. Snake Swallowing

    Like "Trier" I am convinced that snakes are cannibals. A few years ago, on our farm at Brandon, my hus band was standing talking to a friend ...

    Article : 145 words
  10. Unusual Parrot Experience

    We have an English mulberry tree near our back door, and one day I noticed about 20 blue mountain par rote in the tree eating the mulberries. ...

    Article : 94 words
  11. Advertising

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    Advertising : 511 words
  12. Sardines In Torres Strait

    During certain times of the year great shoals of sardines, looking like masses of black floating seaweed, come up round the eastern islands of the ...

    Article : 230 words
  13. Post Office Competitor

    The speedy carrier pigeon flew many a useful message between shrewd stock-brokers when the Franco—German war was on in 1870. ...

    Article : 117 words
  14. "Buried" Pigs

    A pig-farmer in our district went to the seaside for a holiday, and Bill was given charge of the pigs. When the farmer returned home he was ...

    Article : 124 words
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