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Issue Details: First known date: 1895... vol. 30 no. 360 May 1895 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1895 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
If He Had Waited, single work short story romance
Maggie Mills, eldest daughter of a farmer in Victoria, contemplates her response to a proposal by life-long friend and son of a neighbouring station owner, Frank Nicol. She contemplates saying no, but a dream of his trip to Europe and his encounter with and marriage to a beautiful woman reveals to her the true state of her heart ... She says yes. (PB)
(p. 476-477)
A Fairy Tale, May Clifton , single work short story romance

Two ordinary mortals are visited in turn by L'Amour and La Perversité. A chance encounter in the street leads to infatuation; annoyance; a sceptical younger brother; indifference and ending with a happy fairy tale marriage. Personification of qualities of gods mixed with touches of Hans Christian Andersen. (PB)

(p. 478)
A Business-Like Man, single work prose
A systematic youth has his plans rendered unnecessary when his proposal is not accepted. (PB)
(p. 478)
A Strange Story, Robert P. Whitworth , single work short story
Two young men, cousins, emigrate from England to Victoria and travel to a cattle station on the Goulburn River for 'colonial experience' before buying a station of their own. Aboriginal attacks on cattle cause one of the cousins to ride to a neighbour for advice. The appearance of his ghost causes his cousin, the narrator, to ride after him. He discovers the body pressed through the heart by a spear. He collapses, and recovers from an attack of brain fever to the horror of reality. Slight emphasis on the existence of ghosts despite all rational explanations. (PB)
(p. 490-492)
The Lord Mayor's Ball, single work short story humour
Domestic and social humour. The plans of a friend of a new Lord Mayor to attend the inaugural ball without his wife are spoiled when she is sent a spare ticket from her sister, sees him there and marches him home. (PB)
(p. 492)
May-Day Memories, single work short story
An English traveller forced by weather to spend the night in an old man's cottage in Somersetshire hears a tale of 1840. A farmer's son who steals the pretty blacksmith's daughter from a poor but honest farm hand is cursed by the labourer to suffer on the first of May each year. He loses his wife in childbirth one year later, and his beloved son to the hangman twenty one years after that. And the old cottager dies that night - also the first of May ... (PB)
(p. 493-494)
Mr Jinks and Miss Janes, Grosvenor Bunster , single work short story fantasy
A government schoolteacher in a small town, Wild Duck Flat, in the Goulburn Valley of Victoria is dismissed for laxness with discipline and addiction to alcohol. The local notables arrange his dismissal through the department but when a registered letter and his replacement teacher, a pretty young woman, arrive his reactions are unexpected. He confesses to being an English gentleman who left England for Australia ten years before rather than marry a girl chosen for him in childhood. And his female replacement is the girl he left behind, who had done the same thing. Satirical sketch of small town life, parochialisation, the temperance movement and school children. (PB)
(p. 498-501)
One Who Was Forgotten, single work prose
Domestic humour. A small boy's information decides a husband to return home and seek reconciliation with his wife after an argument - but he forgot his mother-in-law. (PB)
(p. 501)
The Curse of Gold, W. W. , single work short story
Reminiscence of the diggings. A new digger and his niece camp near an established camp of four diggers. Their new neighbour informs the four honest digging mates that his niece poisoned her father and is now attempting to poison him in revenge for preventing her marriage with a dishonest chemist who procured her drugs. The chemist in the guise of an old swagman is injured and arrested but poisons himself; and the girl is committed to an asylum. (PB)
(p. 510-516)
How Wars Begin, single work prose
In dialogue form. A couple reveal to their child how wars start. (PB)
(p. 516)
Nerve Enough For Anything, single work prose
An Edinburgh doctor's test of courage for boys applying to be his assistant involves a skeleton and ventriloquism. One lad finally passes. (PB)
(p. 517)
A Starlight Dream, Viola Dand , single work short story
Australian 18-year-old girl is in the garden awaiting her fiancee who had promised to return a year before. His ghost and hers dance together instead - and she feels she will meet him soon (probably in death but this is unclear). (PB)
(p. 517)
Two Episode in Jenkins' Life, single work prose
Jenkins at the club toasts man as lord of creation and woman born to obey. His return to his wife reveals the true state of affairs. (PB)
(p. 519)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Includes final instalment of 'Out of the Jaws of Death' by Chrome, pp. 501-510.
Notes:
Includes eighth instalment of 'A Daring Game', p. 479-489.
Notes:
Includes first instalment of Mrs Harriet Lewis' 'Beatrix Rohan', pp. 465-475.
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