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  2. SKETCHES AT THE EXHIBITION.

    THE well-known firm of David Jones and Co., bas this year come strongly to the front, and, were proof necessary of the advancement of art in the particular branch of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,676 words
  3. THE GERMAN TRANSIT EXPEDITION.

    WE present our readers with a view of the locale on Auckland Island, occupied by tbe German savans, who were sent thither for the purpose of observing the transit of Venus. The expedition, consisting of Dr. Seeliger, Captain ...

    Article : 961 words
  4. THE FIRST EIGHT-OARED RAGE ON THE YARRA.

    SEVEN and twenty years have passed since I saw the Cam, in the bright May term, when all the aquatically-given undergraduates row on the river; some in skiffs, some in pairs, the rest in eights. The latter preponderate. Tubs to ...

    Article : 930 words
  5. JUDGING HUNTERS.

    To our country visitors, no doubt one of the most attractive sights at the Metropolitan Exhibition was the display of jumping horses—the subject of our illustration. The jumping was first-class, and a very close competition took place ...

    Article : 126 words
  6. CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION BUILDINGS, PHILADELPHIA.

    AFTER the Vienna International Exhibition had been closed, it was supposed that a very considerable time would elapse before a similar exposition of the arts and manufactures of the various countries in the world would be ...

    Article : 1,057 words
  7. A FIJI HURRICANE.

    OUR engraving represents the scene of a terrific and destructive hurricane, which occurred at Levuka, the capital of Fiji, on the 7th January. At four in the morning of that day the tide was coming in, and the water from the high ...

    Article : 442 words
  8. MR. PUTWAIN, THE DIVER, IN THE WRECK OF THE "GOTHENBURG."

    LAST month, it was our sad duty to send home details of the terrible disaster which occurred on the 15th February, when the steamship "Gothenburg" struck upon a spur of the Great Barrier Reef, on the coast of Queensland, and sank in ...

    Article : 730 words
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