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  2. MODEL PARLIAMENTS.

    At this week's meeting the address in reply was debated by the Attorney-General (Mr. R. S. Hawke), Messrs. C. Hawke, J. Kildes and T. Cato, and the Premier (Mr. W. T. Turscott). The ...

    Article : 154 words
  3. POEMS AND RHYMES.

    "I was at the back of the shop, my dear, But you did not perceive me. Well, when they deliver what you were shown, I shall not know it, believe me!" ...

    Article : 175 words
  4. WRITINGS AND WRITERS.

    [This article, which was printed in The Register in September, 1890, as one of a series of "Echoes from the Smoking Room," by "A Scribbler," is republished ...

    Article : 36 words
  5. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    A child in a Sunday school was asked what he knew about Solomon, and said, "He was very fond of animals." Being asked why he thought so be replied, "Because he had three hundred ...

    Article : 961 words
  6. THE WISEACRE.

    No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death. 'Tis life whereof our nerves are scant, 'Tis life, not death, for which we pant ...

    Article : 516 words
  7. LIGHT CYNICAL SKETCHES.

    "The Adventuress and Other Stories, by George Willoughby; Max Goschen, London.—A collection of light, social-life sketches, well written, with a slightly acid ...

    Article : 60 words
  8. OUR SISTERS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

    In the Press Gallery of the Assembly, on this September afternoon of the year of special grace, 1940, I witness the transaction of Parliamentary business in a House ...

    Article : 2,299 words
  9. GAWLER.

    The Gawler Model Parliament met on Tuesday evening in the Town Hall. The Deputy Speaker (Mr. A. Milne) occupied the chair. The Act to regulate and control the use of artesian and ...

    Article : 297 words
  10. MISCELLANEOUS.

    From Ewart, Seymour, & Co., London—"From Pit Boy to Champion Boxer—the Romantic Career of Georges Carpentier, Champion of Europe," by F. Hardman ...

    Article : 377 words
  11. NIGHTFALL.

    The day dies. The last faint ember of the setting sun Goes out; and long, dark Night comes on space. A stillness wraps the world in solemn thought. ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. MERCHANT SERVICE.

    It has long been a matter for astonishment to the citizens of other maritime Powers, no less than to many of our own people, that within the British Empire ...

    Article : 918 words
  13. TWO VIEWS.

    Highest of God's creation. What is your cty? Why sit with hands thus folded? Why weep and sigh? ...

    Article : 165 words
  14. Advertising

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    Advertising : 930 words
  15. KEW CHURCH.

    On Kew Green, standing in an expanse of common facing the famous Kew Gardens, is a quaint little church. Two hundred years ago, in 1714, a petition was ...

    Article : 1,324 words
  16. FICTION IN BRIEF.

    Book titles must be a great trouble to authors and publishers. Apart from the difficulty of finding unused ones, there is the problem of how bert to win ...

    Article : 916 words
  17. LITERARY NOTES.

    Mr. G. B. Shaw comes in for rather severe handling in a vigorous pamphlet recently written by Sydney Grundy. The Victorian dramatist, who has few good ...

    Article : 1,543 words
  18. MEDIEVAL FRANCE.

    "Ashes of Vengeance," by H. B. Somerville; Hutchinson & Co., London.—Statistics of circulating libraries are popularly supposed to prove that the demand for the ...

    Article : 431 words
  19. REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

    "The Papal Question," by the Rev. George Bayfield Roberts; Isaac Pitman and Sons, London.—Any one who argues either for or against the Church of Rome ...

    Article : 874 words
  20. A GHOSTLY MURDER.

    "The Thing in the Woods," by Margery Williams; Duckworth & Co., London.—Country doctors have their uses, if in no other way in serving as the background ...

    Article : 386 words
  21. A CLEVER NOVEL.

    "Ineffectual Fires," by E. M. Smith-Dampier: Andrew Melrose, London (George Robertson Proprietary, Adelaide).—The ineffectual hero is not popular in ...

    Article : 599 words
  22. EAST TORRENS COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH.

    A meeting at the board was held at the Town Hall, Norwood, on Thursday. Present—Messrs. Maliar (Chairman), Phillips, Dankel, Brooks, Sincock, Kelly, and Taylor. Mr. T. F. Maliar was ...

    Article : 158 words
  23. W.C.T.U.

    In connection with the Parkside W.C.T.U. a successful drawing-room meeting was held on July 1 at Mrs. W. H. Colllver's residence. Mrs. Edwards presided, and there was a large ...

    Article : 104 words
  24. SHORT STORIES.

    "Lovers' Meetings," by Katharine Typan; T. Werner Laurie. London.—Contrary to custom, Mrs. Tynan has not chosen the title of one short tale as the ...

    Article : 427 words
  25. Advertising

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    Advertising : 213 words
  26. KITTY IN QUEENSLAND.

    "A Bachelor's Wife," by M. Forrest; New South Wales Bookstall Company, Sydney.—Quite rare in Australian fiction is the "girly" novelette, in which the ...

    Article : 362 words
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