AERIAL RAILWAYS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1230, 17 July 1875, Page 17

AERIAL RAILWAYS.

While the overcrowding and noise in the streets of our forgo towns are uttract|ing_ the ;itt nfciou of 'every man who h&s an idea for an underground railway or a silent pavement, why does no one think : of the relief which might be given by cari rv ™g aerial wipe railways along our principal thoroughfares I Mora than half the traffic- of a big town is of a perfectly regular kind, and consists in the transfer of goods from one station or clock to another along a regular route. Nothing would >c easier than to have along the*e well-as-certained routes just such wire railways as are in use in many mountainous places to convey the produce of soil or mines to the nearest roadway. The cost of them is small, the risk in using them slight, and they certainly, by relieving- traffic, would make more room than they would take. They would not be by any means more unsightly than the telegraph wives. — "ictorkil World.

"JSgles" says in the Australasian :— • " I notice in one of those pleasant gossips which 'A Lady' ecmtubntes from London to the Australian a notice ot Miss Walton (Mrs. Fred Lystev.) • Miss Walton,' it is said, "is an American lady, and has nil the characteristic preltinasa ami brightness of her couutiy, with the great advantage of extreme youthi'ulness in looks and manner. Her accent ia slightly unpleasant, but,' <£c. Now, the prefctiuoßß and brightness of Miss Walton are Australian and m't American. She is not the produce of Columbia but of Coiliugwood Flat. Miss Walton, whose name, I think, is Miss Watson, most of us have seen in Melbourne, where she became Mrs. F. Lyster ; and her great advance in her profession is, doubtless, partly due to skjlful training by fogy