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Issue Details: First known date: 1870... vol. 5 no. 61 June 1870 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1870 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Nora's Revenge, Lilly Lee , single work short story
A coquettish girl spurned by her lover wins him back only to enter a convent as revenge.
 (p. 565-566)
Down by the Yarra, single work short story
A story of city detective work - of a husband who murders his wife for love down by the Yarra in Melbourne. (PB)
 (p. 576-579)
A Dinner With a Spiritualist, J. K. H. , single work short story
A visit to a spiritualist friend's house is preceded by several hot toddies with the result that the spirits are very active in moving furniture etc. Humorous. (PB)
 (p. 579-580)
Cowardice or Courage, Amy Randolph , single work short story
Clarence Seville's sister, Mrs Elton, despises his fiancee, Juliet Chaloner, until she sacrifices her life to save Mrs Elton and her children. (PB)
 (p. 580-581)
Beside the Billy, Susan Nugent Wood , series - author short story
No. I. The story of two goldfield mates who worked together in New Zealand and Australia, one of them perishing with two others in the winter cold years before. Told by the Gold Commissioner who heard the story while snowed in. (PB)
 (p. 584-585)
The Dog and the Artist, M. K. D. , single work short story
How the love of a dog saves his bohemian master from suicide and witnesses his union with the woman he loves. (PB)
 (p. 585-586)
Talking Two at a Time, T. M. A. , single work prose humour
On being talked to by two persons at once. Humorous. (PB)
 (p. 586)
Paid in His Own Coin, single work short story
An old blind man kills a noted duellist in a duel to avenge his ruined daughter and dead son. He takes aim through hearing not sight. (PB)
 (p. 589)
On Debts and Debtors, T. M. A. , single work prose
On debts and the difficulties of keeping out of it and paying it back. (PB)
 (p. 589-590)
Down a Silver Mine, Eulalia , single work prose
Tour of a silver mine in San Domingo, Mexico. (PB)
 (p. 593-594)
Clare : A Tale of Tasmania, single work short story
A young girl is restless at home with her respectable Methodist family and secretly meets and marries a handsome man of doubtful reputation. When he is arrested for embezzlement she reveals all to her family ... (PB)
 (p. 594-596)
Under the Verandah, Waif Wander , single work short story
Of a hypocritical, selfish, miserly old woman while she and the female narrator were sheltering from a storm on an old verandah. Sketch of an eccentric in Melbourne. [This tale is also interesting for its introductory references to Collins Street gentlemen.] (PB)
 (p. 599-602)
Elijahi"Into that grand old Hebrew's soul sublime", Henry Kendall , single work poetry
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