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  2. CHAPTER XIII.

    The long slanting shadows lay at full length on the grassy slopes, and the declining sunbeams gilded all the western sides of the trees and rocks, like the gorgeous scenery at the close of an extravaganza, when the glitter of gold-leaf and the rainbow ...

    Article : 4,689 words
  3. ATHLETIC SPORTS ON THE ALBERT GROUND

    To the Directors of the Albert Cricket Ground Company a good deal of credit is due for their efforts to popularise athletic sports of all kinds, and thus suit the tastes of many to whom cricket alone would form little or no inducement. Their Christmas ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 90 words
  4. THE INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION.

    UNDERNEATH we give an engraving of the Octagon, in the new Exhibition building recently erected in Melbourne. This portion of the structure is principally devoted to exhibits of an ornamental character. The spaces on either side of the Octagon ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 74 words
  5. BURNING OF THE CLIPPER SHIP JOHN DUTHIE, OF ABERDEEN.

    THE John Duthie, Captain Phillips, arrived from London on the 19th ult. About midnight, the watch, perceiving smoke issuing from the fore part of the ship, gave the alarm, arousing the crew, who, half suffocated bythe dense smoke, rushed on deck. The deck pumpa were at once manned, the decks wetted, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 587 words
  6. NEW PUBLICATIONS.

    GRIF—a story of Colonial Life—by B. L. Farjeon, 253 pp., 12mo. paper. The author, eacouraged by the success of his previous year's Christmas story, "Shadows on the Snow," has, he states, been ...

    Article : 161 words
  7. THE CHAMPION RACE.

    OUR Victorian friends have readily acknowledged that we have beaten them at all points: rifle shooting, cricket, and racing, and cannot help twitting themselves that their supposed superiority has vanished into thin air. The victory which Mr. Tait obtained ...

    Article : 134 words
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