I am indebted to Messrs. John Fairfax and Sons for permission to reprint The Ghosts of Hunter Street and A Ramble round Old Sydney, which appeared, in part, in the Sydney Morning Herald and the...
When evening's hush comes on the land And day's last legions flee, I fain would sit and see the hand Smooth out the wrinkled sea. And then I see the island lights Shoot out from night's black...
IT is a very pretty difference! Cook having announced a personally conducted tour from Olympia to Australia at very reasonable rates, a large party undertook the journey. On arrival at Sydney, Sir ...
The lofty windmills that with outspread sail Thick line the hills and court the rising gale. ON reading these lines it requires no great imagination to conjure up the vision of a delightful English...
After much time had been lost through the wheels in Y\ ilkinson's machine going wrong, the whole thing was abandoned; the responsibility for the failure was laid principally on the timber used for t...
Our next view carries us down to Miller's Point, and depicts the last of the three windmills which, at various times, graced the Point. The mill in our illustration stood on the site of Messrs. Dalget...
IT has been objected that the adjective old does not, cannot, apply to Sydney. Your city is but a century and a quarter old, and as cities go, it is but an infant. our critics have urged. We ca...
The Old Stables, Dawes Battery;' If one could write of this as the stable of some mighty racer of yore, as Jorrocks, Bennelong, or The Barb, it would open a page of history full of fact and fancy. Al...
ONE Sunday morning in the month of April, 1831, the good people of Sydney were astonished to see the ship Edward sail into port. A week before, this vessel had departed from Sydney bound for Batavia, ...
The fate of the officers and their unfortunate ladies is wrapped in the most appalling uncertainty. We derive some consolation, however, from the fact, that cold-blooded butchery is the reverse of t...
HIS address is No. 2 Cave, Domain. Hours: 6 to 8 p.m. in winter, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. in summer. May be consulted 011 any subject under the sun, from the comparative warmth of the Sydney newspapers as bed...
Howell's Mill, Parramatta. When Grandpa was young. When I made enquiries about the goldfields, I was not at all impressed with my chances. The Turon, I was told, was done, except for exp...
Preface
