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  2. Over the Sliprails

    E. S. S.: The great north-western corner, which stretches from the Darling River to the Queensland border, is the land of tanks, the excavated tank being ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 374 words
  3. BALMAIN'S FIRST POST OFFICE

    Bookworm: It is just 78 years ago (December 30, 1842), that it was officially notified that "a letter bag will be forwarded to Balmain every morning at 9 ...

    Article : 180 words
  4. STARTING A JIB.

    Paul Cupid: The chronic jib is a heartscald to the person who has to work him. Sometimes he twill start off cheerfully enough, and just when you get in a ...

    Article : 358 words
  5. TRACK FINDS.

    Murrungurry: My horse had died on the track, and I was footing it to meet a drover. Near Augathella I caught up a swagman and chummed in with him. He ...

    Article : 267 words
  6. THE OPTIMISTIC PROSPECTOR

    Sugar Bar:--The gold prospector deserves well of his country, if only on the score of pluck and an enduring optimism. You seldom strike him when ...

    Article : 281 words
  7. BULLOCK DRIVING--PAST AND PRESENT.

    Sam Smile: The bullock driver of the olden days was a noisy racket of a man who could be heard in his frantic urgings of his team a mile off. How that ...

    Article : 344 words
  8. THE PASSING OF THE SIDE-SADDLE.

    Werrimee: The side-saddle is disappearing from the bush--and without regrets. At one time almost every woman had a riding habit in her ...

    Article : 300 words
  9. BYROCK'S BLOW.

    Whaler: Byrock recently had a cyclone, so the dallies tell us. It capsized a railway shed and some trucks. One can almost picture the excitement--how ...

    Article : 157 words
  10. EARLY RATIONING.

    Savid: The food trouble in the first days of New South Wales did not centre round the question of price fixing, everybody being rationed from the public ...

    Article : 286 words
  11. THE BUSHMEN OF OLD.

    Coolabah: I write of the bushmen of old, not the up-to-date denizens of the eucalyptus glades who can show many of the "sprucies" of the city a point in ...

    Article : 314 words
  12. SNAKES.

    E. S. S.: When one considers the carelessness of country people in the habitat of the world-old enemy, it is surprising that so few cases of snakebite are heard ...

    Article : 405 words
  13. THE 'POSSUM TRADE.

    Mick M'Gregor: There are many lads in the bush now who have never seen an opossum, for the little, soft-eyed, grey-furred animal that used to ...

    Article : 418 words
  14. HIS ONE GREAT GIFT.

    Jordan Ford: It was when Morrissey was taking M'Glynn's clip into Gundagai for delivery at the railway station many years ago, that he got badly stuck on a ...

    Article : 291 words
  15. THE MOST HONEST BULLOCKY

    U.: The old-time bullocky, of whom many stories have recently been told, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, owing to the increasing network of ...

    Article : 360 words
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