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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6533, 3 February 1882, Page 6

Several international exhibitions are projected in Europe. It has been determined to hold an international and colonial one at Ameterdam in 1883, the Governments of France and Spain having promised their support. It is also proposed to hold a urnversal exhibition at Borne in 1885-86, and a committee has been formed in London for the purpose of securing the participation of British exhibitors. , # The Marquis of Lome's visit to England will have a considerable influence instimulating emigration to the Dominion. The English tenant farmers who went out two or three years ago to report on the resources and oenditionof Canada as a field of emigration have done much to bring its advantages into notice, but the recent of the GovernorCreneral to Manitoba and the North-West has done much to make Englishmen understand the wonderful fertility of the soil. His lordship has spied out the fertility of the soil busses which cross London in tion, from 8 in the morning until midnight. i&e destination of eaoh is painted upon the outside. The chief points of inte»ectiMio the omnibus lines are the Bank (as the Ban* of England is termed, par excellence), Charing Cross, FicadiUy, Oxford Cirous, Tottenham Court road, and Oxford street. One fares vary from Id to 6d. Lately, owing to tbe coming on of some new lines, the fares have been lowered, and 2d is the charge between pointß in the central portions of the Oitf.