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,1 WHUIIilL THE VRRY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. totcmUmg Itcini About Our Own Country, Urcat Britain, lb* Unltad Statei, and All Parti of tb« Qlobe, Coail«n*ed and AMorted lor Eaay Reading. CANADA- AVork has beeii coouiienced on the IWaL'b fiadial Railway track at Ham- ilton. 5IorrLs Freeljorn attempted Huicicle at najuilton l)y taking poLsuii. An emelio eavi'd hun. 'J'h«' wulo\v of Peter >S«iyeres. a pure , Mood Iroquois In(?laii Wfuiiaii, idii'il at Caugbnawaga, at tbe age of 118 years. Treanijer Ilarvey of , Uuel|ih, has bein suspended, as the Council is in- vp^ligating an allegeil Khurtage in hia *c<ounl«. Arthur Dupuis, a Montreal laundry- man, â- was gjaMjfd fatall} by uiiknimn: men whom be ordered away from bis re.sideni«. The early-closing by-law recently pa.s<ied t>y the Council of Mcmlreal has iieen pronounce*! bad law by Recorder IVXTonligny. The Rritish waifihip Rambler arrived at Ilalilax from Sriiiuda. She is one of the latest additions - to the North Aimrican squadron. A Vj«f«uver, Xi.C, syndicate has pur- rh'i.«i'd a rich gold mine accidentally di.?- coverpfi in Cavjuie Creek, in IJllooct diii- trict by a hall breed. A young EnKlishman. just arrived at Montre.nl, .vh'i him-sflf dead on the mountain. He registered at the Wind- sor as T. B. C<>twright, England. I,ieut.-Col. Lake has relurnod from England, where he went on business connected with the ret-ent contracts for arms made by the Dominion Govern- HU'Ilt. t There are numerous desertions from the ninks ot ttie Royal Artillery fita- tinnfd at Iialifnx. It is lielieved the men are t«>ing induced to desert by the high pay in tne United States for good ariillerj'inen. One of the Went worth COunty Coun- cillors proposed to use the lawn in front of the court house at Hamilton for a fre- market to enable the farmers to e.xcup- paying fees. The mid ion was treated as a joke. It is stated in Halifax that the North Atlanti'.- hqundron Ls soon lo be streng- thened liy the sen<lljig of a new Hrit- ish war.«hip from England. The 84|uad- ron is to lie strengiiiened proportion- ately wi'b that of the I'nited States. Mrs. E Iwin Henry King, formerly of Mfinlreal, who died in April in Afont« Carlo, iHqueathe I i.O.WKl lo the Mon- trenl General hospital, £IO.nOU to the McGlll I'niversiiy, and £.5,00(1 to the Ladies' Benevolent Society of Montre- al. The Ontario (.'overnm"nt his socur^'d for Toronto Desarge's painting of (be Chirg- of Ih' Liehl Brigade, whi^ h for ye.•lr^^ bung in Ih- Victoiu Crow's gal- lery in I h<- Cryotal palace at .Syden- ham. The central figure is the' late Col. Dunn, V.C a Torontonian liy birth, of the KKJIh Canadian KegiiiuMit. CREAT BRITAIN. Lady Henry .'^merset has lieen el- ected pr. si lent of the Brillsh Woman's Teniixrane A8.»ociation. Englan<l is suffering from a very »o- ver,' drought. In six we.eks the rain- fall in L< n 'mi bisiinly l>een tuo-tentbs of an inch. Tlie King of th- U?lgians is exjtected abort ly in Ixjndon, to neKolinte a loan for the con.st ruol ion of th,- New Congo rii II way . 'Ibe Ilebring .^ea Convention, in se.s- lion in Lclidon, will appoint a coinmiit- sion tu decide upon the mdividual Cana- dian claims. It is slated on good authority in Ber- lin that the Dreibtind will continue to morally suppiirt Kngbind in Egypt if, after the comnatinn fetes, Russia joins France to hara.ss (ireal Rritain. Over 131 branches have lieen added to the Brili.sh AVoin.»n's 'reiniM-rance Assiciation in England, Scjlland and Wales during the pist year. 'Ibe a.s- Bociution is in annual se.ssion in Lon- don. The alleged revival of EenianLsm is creating some excitement in Lfindon. The Scotland Yard dcteellve.s say they are only waiting for the opjiortune mo- ment to pri|-ee<l against certain men for I'ltispirai-y. The Dublin pf)lice have made nn ex- tri'ordinary di^'cuvery of niililary rifles, bayonets, an<l a large, ipianlity of ain- mnnition. All the ariides are out of date, and appear to have in-en hidden for a li»ng time. Sir .Matthew White Ridley, Imperial Home S(s-retary, in the H<iiV« of Com- mons, staled that be ci.'iild find no ren.son for the cxer<ise of further ilem- ency in the casu of Mrs. Maybrick, found guilty of the murder of ber hus- band. In dealing with the caitiff- diseases bill in the Kritish Coinnvms. amend- ments i« favor frf Canadian cattle were imprwe/l by the Gi'jvernuienl. and it was plMe<l that in .spile, of deninl.s fr.^m this country Cinadiaii herds were tainted wilh pleuro-pneumitnia. UNITED STATES. Buffalo is to have Sunday l>and con- certs in the park. .Mr. II. B. RoiKT. inventor of a steam bicycle, fell off the machine at Cam- hridge, Mass., and was killed. Miss Helen M. (Joiild ti! New York, has s<'nl «l(lfl,OflU for the relief of suf- ferers by the 81. Louis tornado. The total numl>er of fatalities caus- fid by the cyclone in HI. L'hiis and East .St. Lc/uis, is ni«w placed at 400. The United States Cliurch Army, a body like the Salvation Army, has been founded in New Y»rk city. An eight-year-old son of Henry Ack- lam. of Racine, Wis., was torn to piece« by two bulldig.s while returning from Bchnid on riinisday afterno(m. The suicide of Henry E, Chnmplin, in Colchester, Ciain., is the third suicide in • single family in that town within a fear, W. H. T. Durrant, the convicted San- Francisco murderer, lias made applica- tion fiKT a new trial in a (Ux'ument coverinif l.floO typewritten Pages. U. l<\ .Stei)hcns and Wr^ Horan, vrif- .minent Bingls Taji advocates in New York, have l>een arrested for !<x>«Aking !d th« streets of Duiver, Delaware. Pi ior to Ibe great Si. LouLs tormido there were sixty-four bduse boats on the river near I lift city, all of which were lost, with probably three hundred ucimpan'tn. The Niagara Falls Power Co. have contniiled for additions to their pro- mlsen and planl to cost J3,000,OOn for the purp<is« of furniahing power to Buffalo. At Columbus, Ga., two negroes were hanged to a tree in the middle of Broad street, the main Imsiiie-ss thoroughfare, and riddled wilh bullets by an infur- iated mob. The United States receipts for the month of May were $24,fi43,717, and the exiienditure 5-8 -I'JC.SDli, leaving a defi- cit for the month of «3,78:i,875, and for the eleven months of the fiscal year of »Jli.928,874. ArranTcrnents are beln? made for the celebration on au elaborate scale on July \ti. a I 1 i,i , ant.uri:). Oswego, and Fort Niagara, of the ctmtennial of the ev.-u-uation of those places by the Brit- ish troops. There Ls a lock-oat al the works of the Illinois steel works, Chicjigo, and 1 nearly 1,50!) men are thrown out of em- r'loyment. The tnen claim the colour ino was the cau.se of the lock-out, al- tlK>ugh officers of the comimny do not ajimit it. Our reports this week from the New York commercial agencies show little if any change. As crojM promise well and old stt.tks are large, it is likely the low prices no-w reaJized for farm products will continue. Factories are mostly on short lime, and the purchas- ing power of the people is thus serious- ly curtailetl. But (he tone among the cimimeri'ial community is reporleil as excellent, and it Ls .-is-sumed confident- ly that business ^vill improve as soon as the convent iuins are over. The b<iut. and .shoe industry Is the only one just nl^v which can t)e fairly call- e<l active, and ejiiployraent in this line is guAl though orders are dim- inishing. Financial complicaticms and pditical agitatidin are seriously affe<'t- uig trade all over the United Stales. GENERAL. Herr Roplfs, the African explorer, is de,'id at B-jtlin. I.#aders of the cholera riot at Cairo have lN>en shot. The Czarinn Ls 111, prostrated by the Moscow cjttastrophe. It is reported that L.'iOO iKinditshave burned the town of Autriralie, in Mad- .ig.iscar. Carl Lad.strobin, a widely known Swedist naturalist, will visit the wilds of PSMagonia this year. Princess I.Uiuokal.ini, of Hawaii, is still in Italy, but is exi)ecte<l in London towards the end of the month. 'J he London Standard corresiKindent estimates the nunilxT of killed at Mos- cow at 3,jM, iH-.sides 1,20U injured. A national Committee has been form- ed in Athens to assist the Cretans who are in reljellion against Turkish rule. Li-Hung Chang took with him a let- ter of cre<lit for expenses incurred at the Czar's coronation amounting to 9)00,UUU. It is said that Signor Crispi will un- d'-rgo a surgical operation soon at Napli's, as the cataracts in bis eyes are ^pri'ading. The village of Krienholz, in the Bern- ese Oberland, has been iKirtially destroy- ed by Iandsb[i8 and the subsidence of the grouiKl. Twenty per.s<jns were probably fat- ally injured in a pinic caused by the falling" of a staircase at a circus per- foriiianiv at Antwerp. A de.siKitch from East Africa says that the French Nig.'r ex|ieditlon has been totally routed, anil many of its members were kille<l by ixjimined ar- rows. A dinner was given In Moscow on Tbur-^dav nigh; by Sir Nicholas O'Con- or, the Brilish Ambjissador, toiheCzar and Czarina. Covers were laid for fifty guests. A de.sjKitih fn m Apia, Samoa, says that an attempt is l>eing made bvtJer- niany to assist the present pretender Tamasese and thus have a puppet up- on the throne. ^ More than a hundred Russians in Herlin have l)een ordered to leave (he city within three days. N" explanation of the onler is given except that they are obnoxious foreigners. The gravity which the Turkish Gov- ernment attaches to the Cretan situ- ation is shown by the fact that thirty- five battalions of troiips have been or- dered to the l.sland of Crete. A iliespalch from Athens says that the Turks, after leaving Vamos, Is- land of Crete, burned and 8acke<l the viHage.s of Duleiina and Tsivira. 'I'he in- surgents retired to the mnun(ainB, and proclaimed the union of Crete with Oreec*'. It is stated (hat a confidential note has lieen addressed to the Belgian Gov- ernment, announcing that ex-Empresa Eugenie has summoned a great meet- ing of French Monanbists to take place in llrii.ssels during the coming month of August. A detachment of Turkish troops, 8,5 in nutnln'r, which bad returned to the recently W'sieged town of Vamos for the purpose of moving war material, were attacked by the Cretans and cut riecea, only two succeeding in making heir escape. The Hawaiian Government have re- fu.sed permission to Mr. Volney F, Aah- fnrd of lielleville, Ont., to return to Honolulu. He appealed to the HritLih Government, and it is understood that he will be taken to the island in a Bri- tish man-of-war, and landed, despite the Hawaiian protest. AN lilSTORTCAL RUBY. 'I'he ruliy in the oenter of the Malte.w crass on lop of the British crown is the utone that was given (« the Black »iniv by King Pedro of Castile after Jhe l>attle of Nejara, Henry V. of VIngland wore it in his helmet at the li«,tllo o^ Aginoourt. THE HOnE. BABY LOVE. Two golden brown eyes has my darling. Th.it lovingly look into mine. Reminding me often ot sunsets Far oCf in .some strange southern c4im/e. With the glints of the gold and the aml»r Far down In the depths of their deep. I often sit walcliing their suns set With the olii.sing of eyelids in sleep. My Ijonny, bri(jht blossom, my Donald, 1 pressed to my Ixsom to-day And cried In my rapture, "Oh darling. How much do you love me? Oh sayl" He waited a moment in silence, _ Then answend with voice full of glee, "If this house w.m as big as all heavem, That's how much I love you, you see?" VEGETABLE SOUPS. A large prc^rtion of the soups in daily use in the French household, says an exchange, are made without stock, but of vegetables simply boiled to a puree in water and properly sea.soned. At the head of this list of maigre soups, as the French call soup made without meat, is Julienne. Take two small carrots, one turnip, one leek, one onion, a quarter of a head of fine young cabbage, and a quarter of a head of celery. Clean all these vege- tables, wash and dry them. Cut them into little shreds, about the size and shape of matches, but not over two inches long. On account of construc- tion of the onion it iM not poesible to cut it on exact straight lines, which are considered the proper shape for this soup, but it should be cut as near the shap«> as poKsible. Keep all the vege- tables as dry as possilile. Melt four tablespoonfuls of butter in a hot sauce- pan and fry all the vegetables in it un- til thev are slightly brown. A quart of the water in \n lilcn peas or beans have been Ixiiled should then be seasoned with salt and pepper, if it is not so Be.a- soned alreadv. The fried vegetables should be added to it and the stmp should be allowed to slowly simmer for three hours, when a handful of chop- p<'d sorrel or a tuaspoonful of minced cheese or a handful of minced lettuce leaves should be put in and the soup s<'rve«l at once. You may add little squares ot bread properly browned in the oven. This soup will be a great deal better it it is made with a rich strH-k or con.-^omme in place ot water. In this case it is mada in exactly the same way, except that the vegetables are cooked for thirty minutes after add- ing them to the stock. An onion soup is one ot the best vege- table soups we have. Fry four onions, cut in thm alias, in two neaping table- s|S)onfu.ls of butter, or even in nice fat .Stir the onions eimtinually while they are frying, ami when they are quite brown add a si.int half cup ot flour. Cimtinue atJrrinjr the rather pasty mix- ture that you have till the flour has cooked a little and is well browned. Then add very e.irefully, a little at a time, three cups of boiling water. Add now a tSblcspoonful of salt ami let the .soup stand at the back of the stove, where it will slowly simmer for half an hour. Now mash smooth two fresh boiled potatoes, and about half a cup of milk to them, and stir them into the soup. Add another cup ot boiled milk, or enough to rwluoe it to a crram con- sistency. Some brands of flour require a little more milk than others. Strain the soup through a fine puree sieve. An ordinary flour sieve will do. He- turn it to the kettle, which should be rin.sed and wiped <mt, and let it lioil ten minutes, stirring it fn-quently. Put a halt cun ot little squarea of toasted bread an<l two tablespoonfuls of minc- ed chives in the tureen and pour the hot soup over them. SOFA CUSHION PATCH WORK. Cut the [witterns any desired size, ot tin or postelxxird, which should be very stiff so that the material may be cut true. The. star pattern, it made ot a .vellow color as originally intended, should lie in two distinct shad.vs of yellow. The diamond shape, which con- stitutes the ground, should tie of apple gre»>n,or golden brown tint. The square No. 5 must be a different color from u !•• u'''**'' point" in the octagon should J P, ^ and dark gn*n alteruatelv, and No. 3 the same, placing the light tint over the light iH)int and the dark In the same way. The square used t6 join the Hocks should He yellow plush â€" that is, if the remainder of the pat- tarn is followed out in plush; ot course, any material can lie used, as silk, satin, cloth, etc. The square if made ot silk, cloth or linen, can lx» embroidered in colored silk. The paCohwork may lie all ot the star pattern or of the octagon, or as in the design, used alternately. manner as to consume as little time and strength M poesible. To begin with, it seems in order to state that this is no little girl's work. In many families this work is often made the work of the children before they are ot a suitable age or size to perform the work properly. It is work which requires no small amount of pa- tience, as well as good judgment, and women who must perform their own housework have no right to shirk this which they find so distasteful, but seek rather to make it as nearly pleasant as p<«sible. That it may be done quickly and thoroughly, one must prepare for it before beginning. Have plenty ot hot water, soft it possible, and plenty of clean dish towels. A leaky pan may lie easily converted into an e.xcellent drainer by punching hfdes in the bot- tom, as many as desired. All sticky dishes should be dipped in water and s<!t aside. Fill the dish pan half full ot water and the drainer placed in a pan also half full ot very hot water. Wash flassware first. When the drainer is ull, lift from the pan t.nd, place the pan upon the stove to ksep hot, and wipe glass upon very clean, dry towels. Knives, and forks, spoons, etc., come next, the china, tin, and last ironware. When all dishes are wiped place towels in rinse water, wash well with soap, rinse and hang in the open air to dry ; dish-cloths should be treated in the same way, and will always be found sweet and clean. Dishes should be washed on a table or shelf, never in an iron sink, thus preventing the chipped dishes which often di;siigure an otherwise faultless table. TUII'LING WASTES. Much waste can be traced to slight neglects like: The open tea and coffee canisters. The soap left to dissolve in water. The wrong use of napkins, towels and hrdders. The potatoes and vegetables left to sour. The tin vessels corroded with vine- gar. The cheese left to mould or to be nibbled by mice. The iHjnes and scraps of meat dis- carded Ijefore used tor a savory soup. The dried fruit left tor the worms. The unsalted beet and pork. The new brooms used for scrubbing. The tinware left damp to rust. The spoons which scrape the kettles and pans. So there are many trifling wast k which greatly swell the aggregate and should lie feared as the " little foxes which stMiU the vines." PAIf' 16,000 RENT EACH WEEK. The late Baixm Hirsoh once rented Lonl Walsingbam's historic place in Suffolk, England, for eight weeks, pay- ! ing $20,000 for that peno<l. As he re- i mained there Imt one month, his rent. i was equal to $5,000 a week for the time the palace was occupied. WASHING THE DISHES. There is a right way and a wrong way to do everything it is said, and this surely holds true ol the tri-daily dish washing. Any work that must be done HO frequently becomes irksome from the very monotony • therefore such work should lie performed in such * JUGGLERS OF INDIA. Thrlr Wondrrfnl Froln Arrompllohrrt By .Weans of Ily|inoll<ui. A correspondent, writing from India regarding tlie theory that the juggl- era perform their tricks by "will pow- er," says: "During the course of the Indian mu- tiny 1 niadu the acquaintance of one of these geulleinen ot India, who tried to instruct me how to perform these ttricks. He .said it was all Imagluaryl on the part of the spectuturs, as he simply willed that they should see thuie things. Yet I, in common with IWestcru nations, was too auimalized, sensual and materialized by flesh-eat- ing and cousuiuiii ion of alcohol to re- tain or accept any deep spiritual teach- ing. "The most exciting perfarmance that he gave for my amusement dvus the converting of a bamboo stick into ai nat ive servant, who waiile<l at table and 8upplie<l our wants. "Afi*'ivajd3 â€" in his alsenoeâ€" I tried it on, and, to my surprise, the same man was before ma a.sking for instructions. I directed him to fill the chatties in the verandah wilh water from the well in th<' compound. This he proceeded to do. [When lie had filled them all to overflowing, I requested him to stop. He. however, took no uolioe of me, and went on stolidlv bringing in the wat- er, until, ill my excitotl Imaglnalitm, it seemed that the bungalow would ba washed away. Finding that I oould not arrest or slop his luovemeuts. he passing through me as though I did not exist, I drtnvi my sword and lay in wail for him. Alaking a slosh, I apparently cut him, in twain, when, lot there were two men bringing In the water, neither of wh< "U could i restrain or prevent from do- ing so. "1 was completely out of my depth, when 1 heaixl a quiet laugh liehind me, and, on turning, I fouud it was my in- stj-uclor, who hold up his right hand, and the two men disupt>oaiTed, the sticli i«suming Its place in the veranda, and to crown all, there was not the slight- eat sign ot any water, having lieen brought in. 1 excitedly appealed to hiia for an explanation. He said that he had lieen pigment all the time, having willed that he should lie invisible to me; al- so, that I should imagine myself to see and do what I thought had taken place. "In order to prove it, he asked me to step out into the compound, and di- recteil my attention to a huge cavern, which 1 know was not there liefore. As I entered it, a nimilier of .huge ele- ptiaitts and camels issued from it In a continuous 8tream;yeL I could not touch one ot them. Thoy apparently passed over me, as though 1 aid not exUt. He again raised his hand, and the cavern and animals disapiieared, and there was no indication ot any lexodus ot anyi kind." ( THE WRONG Fl^NCTION. Snolwon â€" I feel dweadfuUy. I gave an at home yesterday and only ten jw'ople came. Quiz â€" Why ilon't you give a funeral? You'd have it crowd- fed. A CLEAR VIEW. Papa, what Is posthumous fame? It is getting what you want after you have ceased to want iU GOLD IN NEW SOUTH WALES. Vew Field* Opened and Mew Mellied* «t .MIninir .4daple«l. The glamor surraunding the earlier discoveries of gold in Western Austra- lia has naturally diverted public at* tention fr4m the tact that ths auri- ferous output in New South Wales ha« been steadily increasing of late years, the quantity obtained in that colony during the past year being 360,016 ounces, being the largest annual yield since 1873, when the quantity was 361,- 784 ounces, and surpassed only in eight years since the discoveries of 1851. The output of gold during the present year is expected to shciw a further in- crease. In fact, it Ls now generally recognized that instead of the aurif- erous sources of the colony being coDO- paratively exhausted, as supposed by many, they are only just beginning to be property developed. Although the alluvial depo.-sits discovered in the ear- ; ly days have been practically abandon- ' ed and are p<jpularly considered as worked out, there is ample evidence ' that the surface of the country haa I been merely scratched. The search for gold has been vigorously prosecuted for j more than forty years; but new gold fields and fresh d^wsita are neverthe- less being continually discovered. Improved meth >d3 ot extraction have been invented, and A RICH HAJIVEST awaits the skilled miner who shall bring to bear uprin the development ot this industry mi(dern knowledge and appliances such as are being successful- ly employed in other countries. Gold is also found in quartz-veins, occur- ring in older and metamoBTihie rocka. such as argillaceous slates, chlorltic and I talcose schists, as well as granite.^ di- orite, serjientine and porphyry. Vein gold is associated more commonly with! iron pyrites. th'»igh found with cop- per, lead, zino and silver ores, and al- ' so in astiestus. But the extraction of gold from quartz-veins require«s the erection ot extensive machinery and gold-saving appliances, involving an \ outlay of capital sui'h as the ordinary miner seldom possesses. Cjuartz-mining i is generally carried on by limited lia- bility or no liability compmies, most of the capital lieing fiiuyd iu the col- onies. 'The prin<:lpul quartz-veins are situated near Armidale, Bathurst, Hill End, Orange. Barkes and Wyalong. iha districts which produced the lurge.st • quantities of gold during 18S4 were : t)range, 36,208 ounces, nearly all from Lucknow; Collar, 18,524 ounces, of which 7,79li ounces came from one mine, sit- I uated al Mount Drysdale. and disci v- 'ered in 181*3; HiUgrove, 21,051) ounces, anil Hillgrove West, 10,318 ounces; Peak Hill, 12,:i31 ounces; Parkes, 9,745 ounces; ' Wyalong, 9.649 ounces; Adelong, ti,3.=56 ounces; Fairfield. 6,062 ounces; iludgee, 6,373 ounces, and Wellington tMlt- chell's Creek) 5,20S ounces, lle.sides the I Mount Drysdale gold field -the most imjiortant find 'if recent years was made al Wyalong, in the Lachlau disr- trict. Th.- first proBpei.:t lug claim i.n this flelil was registered on the 26tb oi Decemlier, 18i)U; a great rush at once ensued, and in the early part ot 1894 there were probably more than 10,000 persons on th" ground. At the end â-  ot li<U4, the ,i«liili pfyiilation, within u five-mile radius of the Wyahnigi Court lliaiw, uas estiui.iied at 8.825 males and 930 feuWeci. ibe numl«r of quartz claims registered, lo the end of the year, was 900, of which about 300 were being worked, 121 had been sur- i veyed, and perhaps twenty-five yield- ed more than liarely payable results. \ ANOTHER NEW FIELD, was discovered during 1S91 at Garang- ula. near Murruiuimrrah, wbicn is said to have yielded alxmi. 2,400 ounces. At Yalwal, in the southern district, one mine yielded 4,000 ounces tor two months' work, while the richest mine was lying idle owing to litigation. It may f)e menlionotl here that the Bro- ken Hill i'roprietary Company, durini^ 1894, save<l 4,079 ounces of gold from their silver lead bullion. 'iTie princi- pal seats of alluvial gold mining are the llathurst and Mudgee districts, and the country watered by the various feed- ers of the Upper Lachlan, and also in the 'lumut and Adelong and Braid- woLid districts. In 1880 the Temora g(dd fields, in the Murrumtiidgee dis- trict, about thirty to forty miles from the inland town of Wngga Wagga. were discovered, anil were tor some years in a liourishiug condition. The district is now drifting from mining into an imiHu'tant ain'icultural settle- ment, lu the north u£ the colony, in the New England district; on the coast, in the country of Gloucester; and in the extreme northwest, at Mount Piiole, Mount Browne and Ti- b<iiitjurra, tlu.' gidd fields maintain a considerable populatixm of miners. The system ot hydraulic sluicing is adojited in only two or three mines in the New F^nglaud district; at Kian- dra, on the southern tablelands, where extensive reservoirs have bi'en formied, and the fa*!e of the roi'ks attacked in various places; at Nelbothery, near BoiVibala, where the Delegate Kiver Hydraulic Sluicing Company have erec- ted machinery capable, ot lifiiiig 4,500- 000 gallons of water to a height of 3311 teet in twenlj-four hutus; and in the Shoahaven Valley, where large sums have been expended by compa- nies in endeavoruig to bring water to bear for sluicing several promising beds I of alluvium. The ^reut features <^ gold mining enterpruse in New South Wales is the tmsiness-like character with which it is generally conducted, and the permanent nature ot many of the reefs. Discoveries of a sensation- al kind may lie few and tar lietween, but the greater number ot mines give the holders a fair profit on the cost of wijrking. and even where losses are incurred they are seldom ot a serious character. GREATEST LITKRARY AUTHORITY. Mr. Andrew Lang, perhaps the great- est living authority on literary mat- ters, is a tall, spare, dark man. baa a broad toi-ehead, brown ipyes and an ample lower jaw. He Ls extremely deli- cate and nervous. Fishing, as every one knows, Li bis hobby, and, in the hu- manenes-s of his heart, Iho 'nvariably ftrro^vs back into the water whatever fish he jMUhes.