THE SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

Evening Star, Issue 4955, 20 January 1879, Page 3

THE SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

Considerable interest is naturally felt with regard to the intended International Exhibition building at Sydney. Though not derived from an official source, the 4 Sydney Morning Herald ’ says that the structure will be one that is likely to prove at once useful and ornamental. The Colonial Architect’s idea is to have it diagonally across the highest portion of the . Inner Domain, with the central front immediately facing the Governor Bourko statue. The design of the building, in a general sense, will be after the fashion of a cross, with a large central dome and lantern roof. The main avenues will be after the form of a cross, and from them side compartments will branch out, the plan being that those compartments shall not exceed 23ft, and may be extended just as they are required, and with due relation to the central feature.. Advantage will be taken of the site to make the main building on the level of the highest portion of the domain, and to construct a basement story on the ground floor, so that facing the harbor there will be two stories, and being the Bvurke statue only one. The basement floor, which will be entered as well from the oats'do as by steps leading from tin main floor, will be admirably suited for machinery in m »tion, &g., Besides the main to ver, t here are proposed to be smaller towers at different places about the structure, which will give it from the harbpr and every part of Sydney quite a picturesque appearance. There will be galleries around the main building, and so the entire floor space will be made up to six acres and a half. Mr John Young’s ideas have been, to some extent, embodied in the design, chiefly in that there is'a central feature from which the bays, or 25ft compartmeats, branch off. , His suggestion that the light should be got from the south and soutl - cast, so as to prevent shadow, is also to be adopted. The material to be used in the building has not been settled, but it is probable it will bo iron.

By an extra payment of 2a urgent telegraphic money-orders can novv be sent. They take precedence of all ordinary work, and are dealt with ip precisely the same manner as ordinary “ urgoats.” The ‘North Otago Times’ is responsible for the following There must still bo something good left in the gift of the Government* It is rumored (but we will not vouch for its accuracy) that the, gentleman who is at the head «.f the literary cepartn ent o? an influential Christchurch paper is about to receives substantial indication of Governmental pleasure in the shape of a ‘ billet.’ Whether it is as immigration agent or ‘ head of a department ’. rumor does notsay.” Some sensation has been created in the religions world at Home by the secession of Mr Orby Shipley, the well-known high ritualistic clergyman, to the Church of Rome. He explains iu a letter to the ‘ Times ’ bis reasons for taking this step. For several yean, as a preacher and writer for the Church of England, he volunteers a confession, he has . been inculcating the doctrines of the Catholic Church. He would, in fact, have gone over to Romo long ago, were it not that he hail-held by the right of private judgment. H*> now finds ths f - nnvate judgment is a mischievous delusion, therefore he subjects himself in all things to the Church of Rome; and he has no doubt that many of his Ritualistic brethren will feel bound to do the same thing, The | Homo News’ adds that - his letter in r.h? ‘Times’ has evoked a good deal m >r.-. cerreap.md nc« from Ritualistic clergymen! ; aiitf. it i;j sali.factory, if rather startling, to k;i‘j v m the vi.-al difference between tu> A . ;>■ Rittoiiai;.;, «,u.] -.in; Roman Oafclrdi(>.--iu ti'diii' m-irei it than this, that the 'Ritualists absolutely reject the doctrine of.-Pupal InMlihiMty, whence it would follow that (lie R tnalists are in identically the a nut- position as the Old Catholics, whose Goryphseus is Dr DoUmjcr.