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Issue Details: First known date: 1874... vol. 10 no. 113 October 1874 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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* Contents derived from the 1874 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Madman's Coffin, W. W. , single work short story
A swagman stays in a hut in country Victoria, to rest for the winter to follow an abandoned gold lead. A coffin in the hut is explained by a maniac who tells him its origins and consigns him to it ... (PB)
 (p. 66-69)
A Night in the Wimmera, Aurifex , single work short story
An Englishman ('new chum') on a visit to a station in the Wimmera stumbles across a bush shanty and decides to spend the night - which is nearly his last from drugged brandy and noxious fumes ... Some promise. (PB)
 (p. 70-73)
Luck, Myson , single work short story
On its origins, influences and definition. (PB)
 (p. 75-76)
For Love or Money, Etta Manning , single work short story
In Brighton, England, a woman marries for money not love and is rewarded accordingly - her true love inheriting a fortune too late. Moral. (PB)
 (p. 83)
Little Kitty, W. C. T. , single work prose
Quarrels in a mining claim over an agent who employs too many Chinese and is disliked. Slight; interest in subject more than style. (PB)
 (p. 84)
Who Shall Earn?, single work prose
On those women who don't need to work but in doing so bring down the wages of those who must. (PB)
 (p. 85)
Neighbours in Very Deed, Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , single work prose
On fair play between two honest neighbours setting a boundary line in New Hampshire, USA. (PB)
 (p. 92)
Fair Julia, C. C. F. , single work short story romance
A sailor on a ship bound for Adelaide in the 1850s falls in love with a female passenger and deserts ship to marry her - but in the meantime she marries a lucky digger. Brief but with the tang of personal experience. (PB)
 (p. 96)
Hubert Wyman's Escape, John F. C. , single work short story detective
Detective work by a constable stationed in Victoria's western district in the early days of settlement there solves a murder blamed on an innocent man but committed by his rival in love. (PB)
 (p. 97-99)
Ingratitude, Observer (fl. 1874) , single work short story
The origins of ingratitude in selfishness. (PB)
 (p. 107)
A Night of Terror, Camellia , single work prose
In the Spring of 1855 near the Ovens Rivers two groups of diggers mistake each other for bushrangers. (PB)
 (p. 116)
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Notes:
Includes the fifth instalment of 'The Golden Idol: A South Sea Story', pp. 86-91.
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Includes the second instalment of Marcus Clarke's novel, 'Chidiock Tichbourne; or, The Babington Conspiracy. An Historical Romance of the Days of Queen Elizabeth.', pp. 61-65.
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Includes the second instalment of David Blair's 'Romance of Current History', pp. 74-65.
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Includes first instalment of Ence Rolf's serial fiction 'Traced in the Sand', pp. 102-105.
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Includes first instalment of Luke Darrell's serial fiction 'Ethel', pp. 93-96.
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Includes tenth instalment of A Melbournite of '38's 'The Early History of Victoria. Being Reminiscences of Bygone Days', pp. 77-82.
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