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  2. HOLIDAY SKETCHES DOWN THE HARBOUR.

    "OUR BEAUTIFUL HARBOUR." Many are the jokes levelled against us by the dwellers in other colonies (who do not possess such a treasure) because of the proverbial pride with which we regard Port Jackson. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 164 words
  3. MARS AND VENUS.

    WE learn, on the unimpeachable authority of no less a person than John Dryden, that "none but the brave deserve the fair." Well, if civilians ever do deserve the fair, they do not very often get them when brass ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 147 words
  4. ONE OF "THE OLDEST INHABITANTS."

    THE advent of the usurping white man does hot seem to have been an unmitigated evil for our sable friend, if one may translate his facial expression into words. "Baccy" is, for him, "tired Nature's sweet restorer," and, judging ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 146 words
  5. INTERIOR OF THE EMPIRE HOTEL.

    WE present our readers with some of the principal interior features of the Empire Hotel. In our November issue, we illustrated the exterior of this imposing addition to the first-class hotels of Sydney, and furnished ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 167 words
  6. A CORROBOREE.

    ICHABOD! The "glory" of the aboriginal tribes, or such imitation of that commodity as they possessed, "has departed." In this colony, thanks to the benign influence of rum and tobacco, the sable race is represented ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 139 words
  7. A SMOKE ON THE SLY.

    IT is amazing how popular the weed of which Sir Walter Raleigh is supposed to have been the European father, has become. Everybody smokes, or would like to. Even ladies of society amongst us are said to be partial, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 166 words
  8. TWO RECENT AUSTRALIAN INVENTIONS.

    MR. JOHN HEMBER, of Queen Street, Melbourne,, has recently brought under the notice of the Victorian Government two inventions. One is a hollow rifle bullet, made of pewter, or some metal slightly harder ...

    Article : 122 words
  9. THE BEACH AND HANLAN RACE.

    THE Nepean has been lifted, at a bound, into world-wide notoriety by the struggles upon its waters of Our various sculling celebrities. Both Beach and Hanlan have praised, in no stinted terms, the facilities which ...

    Article : 184 words
  10. CHRISTMAS VICTIMS.

    CHRISTMAS! Season of family festivities and reunions, of mild mirth and merry junketings, how glad we are to see your cheery face once more! Although you bring us to the threshold of another year, and admonish us, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 235 words
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