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  2. RECOLLECTIONS AND REMINISCENCES OF POLITICS

    One of te quaintest figures in any Parliament was Alex Hutchison, who represented Glen Innes in the N.S. Wales Legislative Assembly from 1889 to 1891. He held most ...

    Article : 291 words
  3. HE WAS NO SUCKER

    The Australian aborigine has some quaint superstitions and customs, and it is not hard to work upon his belief in the supernatural. Once in a town on the North Coast of New ...

    Article : 414 words
  4. A Missing Umbrella

    Senator Sir Albert Gould has more than a gleam of humor in his make-up, albeit a very serious legislator when he deals with the higher subjects of Federal politics. He always has a ...

    Article : 368 words
  5. Encouraging—Very!

    Old Sir Henry Parkes, somehow or other, was able to take more liberties with the amour propre of fellow-members than any other man in the political life of N.S. Wales. He did his ...

    Article : 152 words
  6. UNDER FIRE

    Bambardments affect different animals in different ways. Dogs, as a rule, show great distress when shells burst near them and nowl piteously. On the other hand, they have been ...

    Article : 252 words
  7. Appeal to Standing Orders

    A famous politician was asleep in his place in an Australian Parliament. His snores rose with deadly, not to say aggravating, monotony, above the voice of the member who had the ...

    Article : 127 words
  8. A Bent Story

    G. J. Stock, actuary of the National Mutual Life, in Melbourne, tells a good story of his earliest acquaintance with Thomas Bent. Stock was a schoolboy at the time, and Bent, who ...

    Article : 1,110 words
  9. "I am Undone"

    George Reid is fond of telling a little tale against himself. A party of Federal politicians were travelling in the express train from one State to another. When it came to the usual ...

    Article : 479 words
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