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  2. OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

    As part of the scheme for the defence of the entrance to Port Phillip, approved by Sir W. F. Jervois and Colonel Scratchley, the construction and arming of batteries on ...

    Article : 181 words
  3. A LEAKY SHIP IN A STORM.

    Our artist has depicted a scene that is unfortunately but too frequently seen by those who follow a seafaring life, or have to undertake voyages. Bad weather has been ...

    Article : 305 words
  4. STATE SCHOOL CHILDREN.

    he educational system of Victoria ia now n full operation, and many tens of thousands of children are now enrolled on the school registers, and are daily receiving the benefit of ...

    Article : 1,182 words
  5. A COCOA-NUT GROVE.

    Among the characteristic features of Polynesian vegetation, and inseparably associated with Polynesian scenery, are the palm trees which bear the familiar cocoa-nut. Take any ...

    Article : 959 words
  6. THE CREW OF H.M.C. SHIP CERBERUS.

    To aid in the defence of the Victorian coasts and harbors, the Imperial Government several years ago presented the colony with an ironclad man of war, armed with ...

    Article : 263 words
  7. MESSRS. FELTON GRIMWADE AND CO.'S NEW WAREHOUSE.

    The building is in the Italian style of architecture, and is situated in Little Flinders-street weet, to which it has a frontage of 51, feet by a depth ...

    Article : 160 words
  8. MOUNT STURGEON, WESTERN DISTRICT.

    This strikingly peculiar natural fortification keeps witch and ward over the little township of Dunkeld, in the Western Distrust, and, apart from its forming a ...

    Article : 131 words
  9. THE VICTORIAN DEFENCE CORPS.

    In the present aspect of European complications, it has become essentially necessary for every British colony to bo prepared to repulse any hostile forgo that may attempt ...

    Article : 315 words
  10. THE CHIMBORAZO IN DOCK AT SYDNEY.

    The value of watertight compartments in vessels was never more thoroughly proved chan in the case of the magnificent steamship Chimborazo. As soon when on the blocks ...

    Article : 694 words
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