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  2. OLD COLONIAL DAYS.

    Eighty-one years ago, Mr. David Butchart, then 13-year-old boy, reached Fremantle on the barque William Jardine. The colony had then been settled for only ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,539 words
  3. DROPSY.

    There is probably no more terrifying "disease" to the lay mind than dropsy. And yet dropsy is not only not a "disease," it is not dangerous—and, therefore, should ...

    Article : 1,701 words
  4. DENIZENS OF THE BUSH.

    Nurse Hewitt teDs me that a kookaburra appeared on two successive days near her home at Narrogin. "I believe this is the first time the bird has visited this ...

    Article : 884 words
  5. LIFE AND LETTERS

    It takes a person of idiosyncrasies adequately to write about eccentric people. This Miss Edith Sitwell has done to admiration in her recently published book ...

    Article : 1,599 words
  6. ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

    "Veteran."—Herewith a batch of schoolboy "Howlers":— The solar plexus is part of the solar system. ...

    Article : 1,403 words
  7. WHERE THE JUNGLE WINS.

    For the most disheartening chapter in the story of Australian colonisation turn to the history of the Northern Territory. Over 100 years a handful of isolated white ...

    Article : 1,337 words
  8. BOOK REVIEWS.

    This monumental work is being published in eight volumes, but not in their numerical order. Volume I., "The Old Empire," was published in 1929; Volume VI., ...

    Article : 723 words
  9. RECENT FICTION.

    The most sagacious reader of mystery stories will hardly be able, without the author's assistance, to solve the problem which is presented by the murder of M. ...

    Article : 1,131 words
  10. MAINLY MATRIMONIAL.

    Mr. Rothfield is a bold man, as well as being an uncompromising idealist. How anyone could imagine it practicable to deal adequately with such a diversity of sub ...

    Article : 682 words
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    There were occasions when the late Lord Salisbury was almost as adroit a flatterer of royalty as Benjamin Disraeli. The following story was told by a retired member ...

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  13. MRS. MEYRICK'S REMINISCENCES.

    It will be remembered that Mrs. Kate Meyrick, who died whilst the present book was in process of publication, achieved some notoriety in the post-war years in ...

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