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  2. Over the Sliprails

    Sam Smile: The jackass, alias the kookaburra, or gookaburra, alias the ''Settler's Clock," is a great old pal of the bushman. Perfect immunity from ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 355 words
  3. KISSING THE POLICE OFFICE

    Savid: If a Sydney reporter of 60 [?] ago is to be believed, the fair witness kissing the police [?]cer and not the "book," finds its ...

    Article : 187 words
  4. WENTWORTH STORIES.

    Umbali: William Charles Wentworth, the anniversary of whose birth was celeat Vaucluse for the first time on October 26, sowed some literary wild oats in ...

    Article : 351 words
  5. "WILL G. AUSTRALIA."

    Savid: Dr. Broughton, the first and only Bishop of Australia (he used sometimes to sign himself. "Will G. Australia") Was a stickler for ecclesiastical rule ...

    Article : 257 words
  6. ONE FOR PETER DAWSON.

    Mick M'Gregor: I got down from the country a few mornings ago in order to spend a week or so in good old, gay old Sydney, seeing the sights, hearing the ...

    Article : 359 words
  7. ACTIVE SERVICE PAPERS

    C. J.: I. was very Interested in rea[?]ing article by. J. H. M. Abbott in recent issue regarding certain soldier papers he had come across. I had ...

    Article : 248 words
  8. THE FIRST ENGLISH MAIL.

    Umbali: The people who came in the first fleet had to wait 18 months for their first English mail; if you reckon from the day they arrived In New South ...

    Article : 325 words
  9. THE FRIEND OF MAN.

    Amos: It was gratifying to learn that Moa ("Town and Country Journal" on this page) admitted the sagacity of the dog while extolling that of the horse ...

    Article : 375 words
  10. A WRONG DEFINITION.

    C. J.: I hereby record my disagreement with the remark of Syd. Ney (in "T. and C.," 161018) concerning, the origin of the expression "windy" and ...

    Article : 222 words
  11. MURRUMBIDGEE WHALERS.

    Murrungurry: With few exceptions, the Murrumbidgee whalers are old men [?] great are retired bush workers, who have become too old for knocking around ...

    Article : 377 words
  12. THE CO-NESTING OF SNAKES.

    Pot Luck; When I was living at Reedy Flat, now called Batlow, many years ago, I once came across a nest of 13 tiger snake eggs, when ploughing up a bit of ...

    Article : 409 words
  13. "SQUARSON."

    Umbali: The term "squarson" may be unfamiliar to Australian ears; but we had an equivalent of the thing in the early days. A "squarson" is a who ...

    Article : 313 words
  14. CHINESE CHRISTIANITY.

    Savid: In the days when Sydney had a fairly large Chinese population, the Celestials who kept gambling and Opium dens, found a smattering of English and ...

    Article : 234 words
  15. GRINNING MATCHES AT RACES.

    U.: The following advertisement appeared in the "Post Boy" (a London newspaper) of September 11 and 15, 1711:--"On the 9th of October next will ...

    Article : 557 words
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