Contents: Mrs Francis Vidal - The convict laundress p73. Mrs Charles Clacy - Retribution p84. John Lang - The master and his man p90. John Lang - Music a terror p98. Horace Earle - Revenge of Jem Dalton p106. James Skipp Borlase - Mystery and murder p119. Marcus Clarke - The romance of Lively Creek p131. Marcus Clarke - Human Repetends p144. Campbell McKellar - The premier's secret p154. Rosa Praed - Miss Pallavant p169. Edward Dyson - Mr and Mrs Sin Fat p186. R. Spencer Browne - The story of Wills' Leap p197. A.G. Hales - Chinese Ginnie p204. 'Tasma' - An old time episode in Tasmania p208. Francis Adams - Miss Jackson p221. Francis Adams - 'Long Forster' p229. Price Warung - How Muster-Master Stoneman earned his breakfast p237. E.W. Hornung - The luckiest man in the colony p245. J.A. Barry - 'Sojur Jim' p254. Ernest Favenc - Malchook's doom: a Nicholson River story p262.