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 purchased at Lavender Bay, on the North Shore of Sydney harbour, where ten peaceful years were spent. When ‘Bartie’ was about nine years old, Mr. Allen Hughan, of Noumea, New Caledonia, paid his father a visit. Mr. Hughan was an intimate friend, and on leaving begged that the boy, to whom he had taken a fancy, might be permitted to go with him to Noumea for