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Oamaru Mail, Volume XX, Issue 6439, 25 December 1895, Page 3

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According to a -writer on tho_ Yankee marriage market, Newport and £v»rrag»nsett Pier are tho fashionable marriage markets of America. Here are congregated the wealth and beauty of the United States from Jane to September; and here one sees the prince from Italy, the doke from France, the marquis from Spain and the prince from Kuaai.*, all diligently at work endeavoring to find the amount of the dot that goes with Miss . of Kansas City or Osbkosh. But yon seldom see an English nobleman among this motley crowd of European wife-hunters. The score of "Don Giovanni" (wrote Gounod) has exercised the influence of a revelation upon the whole of my life ; it baa been and remains for me a kind of incarnation of dramatic and musical infallibility. I regard it as a work without blemish, of uninterrupted perfection: and this commentary is bat the hamble testimony of my veneration and gratitude for the genius to whom I owe the purest and most permanent joys of my life as a musician. There are in history certain men who seem destined to mark in their own sphere a pinnacle beyond which it » impossible to advance. Sach was Phidias in the art of sculpture, and Motiere in that of comedy. Mozart is one of these men, "Don Giovanni" is such a pinnacle. The tittle economies that have made Japan so rich may be noticed everywhere. The dust of charcoal is gathered op and mixed with the chair of wheat, barley, and other grains, and with chopped straw. It h then moistened info paste, rolled into balls about as big as a billiard ball, and makes eaesßant fuel.