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Two ex-lovers meet by chance on a New Zealand coasting vessel near Auckland. She is now married to another, but they are united one last time ... Light. (PB)
(p. 323-324)
Galateai"A silver slope, a fall of firs, a league of gleaming grasses,",Henry Kendall,
single work poetry
(p. 324)
A murdered woman is found in a small Australian country town, the only identifying features being a garter on her right leg and a new bridle rein around the bag she was in. The murderer escapes ... but only for a time. (PB)
A group of children decide to explore the tunnels of a much-mined hill near their home in country Australia when they are trapped by a cave-in ... (PB)
An Irishman on the Victorian diggings takes advantage of his cousin's callowness to convince him he is dying of a snake bite, and in the ensuing spree they strike gold. (PB)
The story takes the form of the diary of a day, beginning at 5am and continuing through to 11pm, in which the vagaries of the weather and its effects upon the body are noted.
Reminiscence. Written to show another side to colonial literature and life besides ruffians, bushrangers and swindlers, the record of the author's two years in Victoria. She records her move with her husband to a small isolated up-country township, the poverty and illness suffered there, and the extreme kindness and support of their fellow townspeople. (PB)