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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 21, 1911
Page
7
The fragment offers prescriptive guidance for wives covering behavior in marriage. It urges women to flatter, support, and please their husbands, praise positive traits, and manage quarrels with tact while emphasizing obedience, gratitude, and understanding.
A travelogue aboard an island steamer describes Solomon Islands plantations by Lever Brothers Pacific, native labour, and social life. The writer notes health, diet, and industry as natives adapt to plantation work, with vivid scenes of Santa Cruz and Nukuladlat encounters and a moving farewell on return voyage.
A report notes the Borombongra steaming eastward from the Solomon Islands toward the Union and Ellice Islands. The Union and Ellice Groups are described as low and flat with treetops 60 to 80 feet above non level.
A fragmentary recounting of Payne’s literary career from his early fame with Rip Van Winkle to a stage debut in 1809 and later ventures in England and America. It notes his diary earnings, management attempts, and his enduring song Home Sweet Home with music by John Howard Payne.
Australia ix riding prosperity drives AMP Life Office to a new annual record with total business £5,487,376 in the Ordinary Department over three months. Life assurance stands at £8,810,068 with endowment policies £2,157,410. Industrial Department shows strengthenings, London Branch up £10,000 in income with 9480 policies. In force policies total 58,627 with £1,911,807 in assurance. Surplus after liabilities £1,089,002, £899,002 set aside for participating policyholders. The AMP urges readers to secure policies promptly.
The Northern Rivers district in New South Wales attracts travelers from New Zealand and Victoria seeking mild winter climates. A round tour travels along the Main Northern line to Brisbane then to the border and Murwillumbah Lismore Casino and Grafton, with boat passage to Sydney. The subtropical region offers varied scenery, including mountains meadows and ocean, with refreshing breezes.
Emmelie Samuelson writes on Venice as seen from Piazzas, Grand Canal, and the Lido. She contrasts graceful gondolas and grand palaces with future changes such as a lagoon railway and new bridges, recalling a bluejacket’s remark about Venice not “taking the cake.” She notes Venice’s unique stillness and beauty amid waters, and mentions the city’s history of postmarks in London around 1600.
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