I recollect while the track was being laid speaking to an Australian in charge of a gang of natives preparing an earthwork, and asked why it was that a trench was dug before earth was piled up.

Though the Home Office had treated him disgracefully during his life, and ignored his services, he lives for ever in the hearts of the Australians as the hero and chief figure of the exploration of their country.

On that day Americans assisted the Australians in taking Hamel with many prisoners.

Yet Stephens tells us in his article that before the advent of the whites these people were chaste, and "conjugal infidelity was almost if not entirely unknown;" while Westermarck (61, 64, 65) classes the Australians with those savages "among whom sexual intercourse out of wedlock is of rare occurrence.

I know of no early people, savage, barbarous, semi-civilized or civilizedfrom the Australian to the Greekin which the men did not look down on the women as inferior beings.

He isn't the only Australian by a long shot who upholds Australia by fist and boast and astounding gallantry, yet stays away from home.

An engagement typical of the prolonged fighting on the Somme occurred near Armentieres, where the Australians on a two-mile front made the greatest trench raid ever undertaken in any war, inflicting heavy damage upon the enemy by bombing and hand-to-hand fighting.

I fully understand the recent excitement of the Australians over the rabbit scourge which threatened to devastate their land.

You bet he'll sign it: Besides, he's white; pulled out of the firing-line by an Australian at Gaza, and hasn't forgotten it.