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  2. CONTINENTAL GOSSIP.

    It seems strange that Paris, without whose imprimatur of satisfaction no lyric artist is considered to be the right thing in the right place, should be unable to support either French or Italian opera, even with the aid ...

    Article : 2,118 words
  3. MAURITIUS.

    Both the French-Australian mail steamer Yarra and the Cape mail steamer Melrose sail to-day at the same hour, thus leaving little time to us all to reply to correspondence roceived yesterday. This time the ...

    Article : 1,171 words
  4. WOOD PAVEMENTS.

    Sir,—It is unfortunate that Mr. Young's third lett[?] should open with another [?]roneous assumption. He there in deprecating the decision of the board, regzeta that it had not taken " reliable evidence of the experiences in ...

    Article : 613 words
  5. DIPLOMACY AT PEKIN.

    Pekin is just the place where diplomacy in its ordinary sense has never had, and may neverhave, any real existence. There is positively nothing in China at all answering to it, and it is misleading to apply familiar terms to a state ...

    Article : 2,734 words
  6. A PROPOSAL TO AMELIORATE THE AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE.

    Sir,—Any idea brought forward concerning the above question is valuable, inasmuch us it may set others "a thinking" on the subject, and a useful result may be arrived at thoreby, even it this latter propesal were totally different ...

    Article : 1,503 words
  7. TO THE EDITOR, OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—I notice that your correspondent "Linnaeus" in your issue of the 29th instant quotes the case of the streets of Turin for our consideration. In doing so he draws the attention of your readers to the cement used there, and ...

    Article : 678 words
  8. THE POST OFFICE CARVINGS.

    As testifying the interest taken by the mother country in the art progress of her colonies, the London Art Journal for December contains an excellent woodout of two of the spandrels of our Post Office, with a faithful representation ...

    Article : 655 words
  9. THE FATAL YACHTING ACCIDENT.

    Further tracos have been found, under remarkable circumstances of the victims of the fatal yachting accident which occurred on the eastern shore of Port Phillip on the 13th or 14th instant, when the two sons of Mr. R. J. ...

    Article : 526 words
  10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; but is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked."—PROV. ch xi., V ii. Sir,—This old and trite apothegm may not inaptly be Used as a fitting heading for a few remarks that are thought ...

    Article : 447 words
  11. TRAMWAY REFORMS.

    Sir,—Mr. Freeman advocates, in your issue of to-day the institution of cable for locomotive tramways in this city. I have a lately inspected the works and the working of the cable system in San francisco, where it has its greatest ...

    Article : 306 words
  12. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—I have read Alderman Young's series of letters on this subject with considerable interest, and I think much of his criticism on the report of the Commission is sound, but in his last letter offering suggestions for the improvement of ...

    Article : 193 words
  13. PSEUDO-MARTYRDOM.

    Sir,—It seems as if those stories of the alleged religious grievances of the Irish convicts were treasured up for use when bad blood becomes desirable, for it was not in New South Wales that Dr. Moran first proclaimed the martyrdom ...

    Article : 140 words
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