It is worth while to run the eye briefly through these paragraphs, which might be headed thus—­Resume of telegraphic intelligence; short account of Dr. Benson, whose appointment to the Primacy is announced by telegram; short account of the distribution of prizes at the Bordeaux Exhibition; announcement of the arrival of the P. and 0. mail at Albany, and of its departure from Melbourne the previous day; short account of the trip of H.M.S. Miranda, just arrived in the bay; ditto of the movements of H.M.S. Nelson, and of the Orient liner Chimborazo, with mention of some notable colonists arrived by the last ship; summary in eleven paragraphs of the last night’s parliamentary proceedings; notice of a meeting to have a testimonial picture of Sir Charles Sladen placed in the Public Library; a puff of the coming issue of the Australasian; account of an inquest; three notices of Civil Service appointments; one of the intentions of the railway department about excursion tickets, and another announcing the introduction of reply post-cards; another that the Government intends circulating amongst vignerons a report and pictures of the Phylloxera vastatrix; a summary of the doings of the Tariff Commission; a notice of the intentions of the Steam Navigation Board; a list of subscriptions to the children’s charities; a summary of two judgments in the Supreme Court; of a will (value L75,200); of a mining law case; of applications for probate of a will, and for the custody of children; an account of a fire, another of a distribution of prizes; a summary of the programme of a Music Festival; announcements of the different theatre performances, and seven subscription lists.

The last column of the seventh page is headed ‘Special Telegrams.’  Of these there are only five today:  one about the construction of Prussian railways on the Russian frontier, the second about the French expedition to Tonquin, the third on the relations between France and Madagascar, the fourth noting an explosion at Fort Valerian, the fifth on the execution of Oberdank.  Then follow eleven messages from Reuter on M. Tisza’s speech on the relations between Russia and Austria; on the Egyptian Financial control; the new Archbishop of Canterbury; the Lough Mask murders; the health of Mr. Fawcett and M. Gambetta; the trial of MM.  Bontoux and Feder; the mails; monetary intelligence; commercial intelligence, and foreign shipping intelligence.  This list gives not at all a bad idea of what European news is considered of sufficient importance to be telegraphed 15,000 miles.

Turning over the page, a column and a quarter is occupied with a general summary of European news by the P. and 0. mail, telegraphed from Albany.  Then follows country news by telegraph.  Between Sydney and Melbourne the Argus has a special wire, which accounts for three quarters of a column of Sydney intelligence on twenty different subjects.  There is also nearly half a column from Adelaide on nine subjects, and a “stick” from Perth on three subjects.  The list of overland passengers from and to Sydney is also telegraphed from Albany.  ’Mining and Monetary Intelligence’ takes up over a column, without counting another column in very small type of ‘Mining Reports.’