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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 113, 14 May 1890, Page 3

An Auoklander now resident in Melbourne Writeß to a friend in the northern oity : — "Melbourne in very unhealthy just now, and will be until the drainage ia taken thoroughly in hand. At present it is a disgrace to a Turkish town, and they are about the worst in the world. The dirty linen of the land boom ia still being washed out, the courts being kept busy with bankruptcy, fraud, etc. I think that Melbourne's prosperity resembles that of New Zealand's ten years ago, but the Melbournite is as proud of his stinking oity and ite supposed prosperity as ever he was ; bnt I think the oondition of the natural producers, or the farmers, ia a fair index of the true oondition of the whole. The farmers in Victoria are in a very bad way, and are olamouring for redactions in rent, taxes, and charges of all kinds,

The influenza has been set to music. Composer Maroni, director of the opera at Smyrna, having recovered from an attack of the grip, has expressed his gratitude to Hygeia in a symphony, the melody clearly indicating the course of the malady from the first Bneeze to the dootor's bill.