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  2. AN UNPOPULAR AUSTRALIAN.

    At its beginning and for a full generation after 1788, this Australia of ours was based on "lags" and the liquor trade. Their spirits were troubled but akin. ...

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  3. PUCK IN PARLIAMENT.

    "Puck: If we shadows have offended, Think but this (and all is mended), That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear." ...

    Article : 1,367 words
  4. THE GAME OF BLUFF.

    Things had been hard in South Australia. Drought after drought lost me Berrimarra. A couple of weeks later Bill Haslam, my neighbour had bad to walk off ...

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  5. MUSIC AND THE THEATRE.

    The well-known Westminster Glee Singers, who have lately been touring Tasmania, following a very successful season in Queensland, are to be heard in Perth again ...

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  6. LABOUR NOTES.

    At the request of the West Australian branch of the Australian Labour Party. "The West Australian" has set aside a column weekly for the publication of Labour news items ...

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  7. BIRTH CONTROL.

    I am too much of a Puritan to welcome the wholesale rejection of taboos which the younger generation has loudly proclaimed since the Great War. The new ...

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  8. AMONG THE CHURCHES.

    Archbishop Le Faun, who attended the Lambeth Conference, will return to Perth on Tuesday by the Orontes. On October 20 he will be given a welcome in the ...

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  9. AFTER TWO THOUSAND YEARS.

    October 15 will be the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of the poet whom we call Virgil. On that day in the year 70 B.C. Publius Vergilius Maro was born ...

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  10. "A MORNING IN ROME."

    Sir,—I always read with delight the contributions to your Saturday issues of Professor Murdoch. But there are two or three questions I should like to ask him ...

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  11. A COUNTRY GIRL'S VERSES.

    When opening the Royal Show last Tuesday, his Excellency the Governor (Sir William Campion) made special reference to a poem by a 10-year-old country ...

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  12. YOUTHFUL VERSE-WRITER

    Mr. Alexander Watson, who was recently in Perth as examiner in elocution for the Trinity College of Music, London, secured a little type-written brochure of ...

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    In his account of the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine ("Raiders of the Deep"), Mr. Lowell Thomas gives the narrative of one of the survivors. ...

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    In "Memories of a Hostess" (Mrs. James T. Fields) is related how once, when Mr. and Mrs. Henry James called on Mrs. Fields, "he (Henry James) talked ...

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  15. New Records.

    The lugubrious closing scene from Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" has beep very well recorded by Benidmino Gigii (tenor) and Ezio Pinza (bass), with the ...

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  16. TO-MORROW'S SERVICES.

    Brigadier Ede (Divisional Commander of the Salvation Army) will conduct services at Cottesloe Beach to-morrow. The girls from the Cottesloe Beach Home will take part. ...

    Article : 244 words
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    One of the personal anecdotes Mr. Leslie Henson, the actor, tells in his book of reminiscences, is of a conversation he had at a party one night with a jovial man ...

    Article : 204 words
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    One of the stories told by Mr. C. W. Miles in his book "Taffy" Tales from Welsh Wales" is about little Johnny Jones's first cricket match. He and his ...

    Article : 132 words
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    Professor Mahaffy, of Trinity College Dublin, had a decidedly trenchant wit. "It was wrongly said that when Oscar Wilde wished to become a Catholic in his youth ...

    Article : 119 words
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