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Issue Details: First known date: 1873... vol. 8 no. 97 June 1873 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1873 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Bush Life and Bush Fire, Myra , single work prose
On the interests of bush life and the experience of a bush fire on "The Alps" of Australia. (PB)
 (p. 522)
Yatalonga, Waif Wander , single work short story
A widow and her son take work on a gentleman's country station near Echuca on the Murray. Love develops but is forbidden by the widow's revelation that her husband may not be dead. The sale of the station and arrival of the new owners helps solve the mystery ... (PB)
 (p. 523-528)
Caught At Last, W. W. , single work short story
A romance between George Merrivale and Jane Pascoe is ended by her father's murder and suspicion of George. Though he tracks down the murderers, all is not repaired. (PB)
 (p. 533-539)
Life in Southern India, single work prose travel
Description of landing, the local flora, fauna, coffee planting etc. (PB)
 (p. 544)
One Summer of a Life-Time, Lina , single work short story
A Melbourne bank clerk is transferred to the Box Hill office of his bank and on the way meets and falls in love with Alice McKie. His summer of romance is ended by a charge of embezzlement manufactured by a work superior. 15 years later the clerk has regained fortune but lost his love forever. (PB)
 (p. 545-547)
A Night Scene in Melbourne, James Lockhart , single work short story
An encounter with a drunk on Bourke street leads the narrator to a wretched shanty where he meets a dying woman he had known before her marriage in New Zealand. Pictures the suffering of beaten wives and penniless women on city streets. (PB)
 (p. 547-548)
The Acrobat's Last Performance : A Tale of Melbourne Hospital, Bazar , single work short story
A Melbourne merchant causes the fatal fall of a street acrobat who recognises in him the sleeping man he had touched while fleeing a murder in London years before. (PB)
 (p. 581-582)
An Object on a Donkey, May Wilson , single work prose
Jumbled account of a woman 'swearing' - near Albion Chambers, Sandhurst at the sight of a man on a donkey, and her determination not to marry him. (PB)
 (p. 586)
Love and Burglary, single work short story
A law clerk arranges to elope with his employer's daughter, Madge Tangletongue. He is arrested and she in fact elopes with his erstwhile friend and accomplice, Stephen Slye. (PB)
 (p. 588)
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