MISCELLANEOUS.
It ia noldnm enough that T ' puff" any literary production, so much so, iudeod, is this tho case, that my friends linvo boon heard to vrbiapor that I ' writ* myself ;' but 1 would recommend folks nt (he sw* side, and on their holiday, for of course I would uot rontui'o to propose llio roadinp; of a novel nt nny ethor time, to t?ot t!ie " Wreck of tho Grosvenor," Tho first two volumes and a-half nro oxco'lcnt ; it is tho b««t ica itory that has been written .linco 'Tom Crin^lo's Lor. 1 Whether tho author can vrrilo except upon marine sub* jeots I cnunot say, md indeed am rather doubtful about it ; but on (he rolling wbw
_ ho bun no living rival, nnd yet tha boole ham only ronnhad n hocoikl edition. Tho ronson of thin no doubt is that tho lovo Bfory formi only a nocondnry portion of i(, nnd Mim Jonas nnd Mms Brown and Mifis Robinson, wlio nro (lio novelinl/8 public, float on lovo Rtorirs nnd enro little for anything clap, I hoc ihnt no loan than thrco publishing houses luivo como to Kriof (his week, all through publishing trnvclfi and normons, and things of that sort, no doubt. My frioi.da of tlio Ifow, why, oh why, do you insist on improving our mmdx P Stick to the lovo alon'es. Thfl Molbonrno correspondent of Ihe Otn«o Daily Tim«« snyfl :— An impro.isive 7>ropo«nl Tor mi intercolonial railway upon n grand Kcnlo has been plncerf boforo tho public, chiefly in tho intercuts of tho QiiOMntilanrl Gnvornmnnt. It would ntnrt from noar Doniliqnin, wlicro branch lines would leave to Adohiido nnd Molbourne, and, pHssinc; northwards, wou'd bo met by others from Sydney and Brisbane, iirul Ihcnco trnvel weslw/irdly to tho Gulf of Carpon aria, Thn project is a very taking one, an it, would bring the Oolonioa much nearer lo oneUoilior, to A«i«, and oven to Kuropo. while it < would open un «n immonHo c^tont of interior pastoral country. It would bo about 3000 milfg in length, but would havu nothing iiko »ho flifflcultios which the trans-conlinnnfal rail *my« in tho, United StuioH ami Canada had to oncountur, aa tho coun'ry. would bo almofit entirely lordtlhrou^li which it would liaro to pans. Vmtoria- \ri-nh\ ho <ho only Colony nob pnrtioi|)rttiii!< in iho opening up of tho interior, for hnmmod | in a little corner, as wo nr*?, nnd wtrli a «oniparatively insignifld«nt eatitff 4 , nlroady witliin oasy comraunicrtlion of the 8«n« hoard, wo Bhould have notbing to fni" by it in thnt direction. But t f, n m many bore nro inclined to demand, tljoro ulntild bo BMfth a redistribution of Miis inbind torrid tory as should givft Victoria lior fair nhnrc, the question would b« th"n very much altered, llivarina is rcjilly or geographically ours, nnd with a s'-rtp of lnnd renoliinej into tho centre of tlio groat AviH'ralian plain, wo should bo upon a more equal footing with our rtfrlghbdiirn in Kuch an undertaking, which Viotorinn pntorpridfl nnd Victorian cnpital would I him probably bo tho (Imfc to curry ou'» As it i«, wo rliouM d«riro vory link direct bono(U from such a railway, wbioli Q'loendbmd and South Atukralrn, tbo jurlifl") most intoroxtod, nro not likely to attempt themaolvn*. I
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Inangahua Times, Volume 21, 20 November 1878, Page 2
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