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  2. SOUDAN CONTINGENT.

    To-morrow, March 3, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the departure of the New South Wales contingent to the Soudan, the first occasion that Australia spontaneously offered ...

    Article : 1,010 words
  3. RUSSIAN DRAMA.

    "The Soviet theatre is the most interesting in the world to-day," proclaims Elmer Rice in his preface to Gollancz's "Six Soviet Plays," and the American dramatist is right for a ...

    Article : 1,087 words
  4. CAROLINE CHISHOLM.

    Picture to yourself a grave colonial Judge of the 1840s, with his mounted retinue on circuit, halted for a moment chatting amiably to a middle-aged lady seated on a horse rug ...

    Article : 824 words
  5. REGIONAL SURVEY.

    PAPEETE (Tahiti), Feb. 4. During the last few years, the Bishop Museum of Honolulu has been engaged on an important regional survey of Eastern ...

    Article : 840 words
  6. HOWEL THE GOOD.

    "Howel the Good" gave to Wales a system of law. As Moses gathered the twelve tribes of Israel into an united people, by giving them a code of law, so Howel the Good united north, ...

    Article : 276 words
  7. NEW SOUTH WALES TROOPS EMBARKING FOR THE SOUDAN.

    This event took place on March 3, 1885, to-morrow marking the exact jubilee. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 21 words
  8. TWO DRAMATISTS.

    A nice-looking audience helps to a harmonious atmosphere, and when the nice-looking audience is responsive to the entertainer, the artist gives of his best. The ...

    Article : 681 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN. FURS.

    The possum and the platypus, foregathered at the creek; Of course, they're not relations, and they very seldom speak. ...

    Article : 315 words
  10. THE ADVENTURES OF OSWALD.

    Oswald is a rabbit. He was bought from a boy for fivepence and three comiec papers. Everybody loved him from the first, he was such a cunning little fellow. He was about ...

    Article : 479 words
  11. LONELY GRAVE

    A curious history is Attached to this grave. In it lie the remains of the first two casualties suffered by Australia in the Empire's cause— Robert Weir, N.S.W. Infantry, and Edward ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 158 words
  12. THE DRAMA OF THE JUNGLE.

    All is quiet in the heart of the African jungle, save for the occasional call of some animal. The bright moonlight streams down through the tangle of clinging vines and ...

    Article : 192 words
  13. LIE-A-BED.

    Oft when I lonely lie abed, And the evening bleezes blow, In fancy I sail in a silver boat— The new moon—floating low. ...

    Article : 68 words
  14. THE ROYAL GEORGE.

    What schoolboy lives to-day who cannot recall Cowper's epic poem, "The Wreck of the Royal George," When brave Kempenfeldt went down ...

    Article : 348 words
  15. FIRE!

    The curtain of night had descended on our suburb. So quiet was it, so dark the rows of cottages on either side of the street, that one might imagine an echo of the old-time curfew ...

    Article : 6 words
  16. COUNTRY CHILDREN.

    John, Joan, and Helen and Barbara dwell Far, far away from the city streets, Where there's a beautiful sunlit dell With a pool which has dear little rocky ...

    Article : 96 words
  17. SAND-PIES.

    Have you seen a little brown boy a-paddling in the sea, With cheeks as red as apples and a dimple on each knee? ...

    Article : 88 words
  18. TAMING THE BUTCHER BIRD.

    Though the black-throated butcher-bird is the best songster of the family, the smaller collared butcher-bird is the easiest to make a pet of. He can be taught to whistle almost ...

    Article : 113 words
  19. A DREAMER.

    He was a dreamer, dreaming a golden dream, Too subtle, too fine for the world to comprehend, Too great to achieve, yet achieving in his mind. ...

    Article : 79 words
  20. WAYSIDE FLOWER.

    A flower by the wayside blooms— But pass it by: 'Tis better thus in Nature's care To let it lie. ...

    Article : 20 words
  21. A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF THE SOUDAN CONTINGENT'S ENCAMPMENT NEAR SUAKIN.

    "Here and here did England help me, how can I help England?" was then, as now, the feeling of Britons overseas. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 28 words
  22. NOMADS.

    We are those happy lovers For whom no love grows old: To us brown earth uncovers Fresh beauties manifold. ...

    Article : 44 words
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