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  2. Over the Sliprails

    Umbali: Sydney, in the days of William IV., must have appeared like an Eastern town at least in one respect, seeing that it was "pestered with innumerable quantities" of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 270 words
  3. A FREAK IN CANARIES.

    Jordan Ford: I once owned a wonderful canary, one of a consignment of five hundred from the islands. My father had been chief steward on the Cyphrenes, one of the A.S.N. ...

    Article : 267 words
  4. RESEARCH WORK.

    Wandi: One thing the war has demonstrated is the great importance of scientific research, as applied to the development of industries. Our botanic products and resources particularly ...

    Article : 148 words
  5. PRESERVE THE EGRETS.

    Timothy: The day cannot be far distant when egrets will be placed among the vanished fauna of Australia, and we will have to go to museums to see what they looked like. It is ...

    Article : 206 words
  6. THE KINDLY QUARTERMASTER.

    Cornstalk Junior: Our company quartermaster, like all of his rank, was kind and thoughtful beyond praise. If ever we went short of anything no one ever dreamt of ...

    Article : 222 words
  7. THE RABBIT INDUSTRY.

    Cornstalk Junior: The drought came down in the west, and stock died wholesale. The big sheep-owner took me in his car to see some of the side-lights of the situation. Over a ...

    Article : 273 words
  8. DEGILBO.

    A. Y.: On reading of the naming of Degilbo Station in your issue of September 11, I was reminded of a good story that excited the risible faculties of many Queenslanders at the ...

    Article : 301 words
  9. HE TOOK IT.

    L. A. C.: A few years ago a little lad, who was just blossoming into the knickerbocker stage of existence, discovered that there were eels in a pond in the neighborhood of his ...

    Article : 179 words
  10. A NOVEL UNION.

    Murrungurry: I was in a small shed one year where the five shearers who composed the board had a union of their own. The principle of the union consisted of each man getting the ...

    Article : 323 words
  11. INTERIOR GRASSES.

    Wandi: In normal seasons, particularly in Mitchell-grass country, a good deal of bush haymaking is done by the more provident stock raiser. On some of the clear plains mowing ...

    Article : 214 words
  12. HANG OR BE HANGED.

    Umbali: This was practically the terms on which New South Wales got its first hangman. Hardly had the convicts and marines landed from the first fleet before the Criminal ...

    Article : 223 words
  13. LONG DROVING TRIPS.

    Mulgo: So much depends on the ability of a drover on long trips that his performances are closely noted by cattle breeders and buyers. A trip or two may give him a good name or a bad ...

    Article : 349 words
  14. COFFEE AND TOFFEE.

    Cornstalk Junior: There is no "eleven o'clock" in the army, nor afternoon tea; but in the big camps in England alternative functions have been evolved. The chief of these ...

    Article : 290 words
  15. JOHN CHINAMAN GETS HIS OWN BACK.

    Syd Ney: The heathen Chinee is a peculiar person to deal with at any time, and is quite likely to prove dangerous, if rubbed the wrong way constantly enough. The ...

    Article : 302 words
  16. WHEELERS' WOES.

    Keira: For sheer desperation, illuminated with volcanic and highly-explosive diction, nothing can equal the behaviour of a wheeler when a full skip of coal gets off the road. The ...

    Article : 359 words
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