PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2778, 12 June 1907, Page 66

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The Red Funnel for June presents • very good programme to its readers, and, moreover, confirms the impression that the magazine is once more on the up grade. The opening article is an illustrated one, descriptive of Kosciusko and the Australian Alps, and further on is a second article, quite strikingly dissimilar in scene and interest, on " The Roof of Tasmania." There is a little sketch of the unveiling of the Marsden Cross, written pleasingly and> sympathetically ; some verses here and there, and a good deal of quite presentable fiction, especially in the field of short stories. The pages devoted to " The Stage " deal with the portraits and personnel of the Grand Opera Company now playing in Melbourne. Tho busy manfinds a convenient summing up on topics of the time. Interesting Itema from Everywhere group together a number of selections from the world's magazines, varied, interesting, informative, or original; while the choice of book* embodies a capital resume of a very notable novel, " The Fighting Chance," by Robert Chambers. In addition to the monthly prize of one guinea offered for the best joke, the editor now offers a prize of one guinea for the best tale of real and exciting adventure, and a. further pcize of one iruirvetL for ihe best phofcogr»pii sent m during the month. . The June number of the Triad reeks at America. With that pleasing egown* which is always a feature of the publication, the editor takes the pubho into hiß confidence and shares with them the experiences, the impressions, and the jokes which he gathered durfeg his recent tour m America* He has brought v, back some photographs reminiscent of the Tbaw trial, and Eome news of Montreal.

The council of the New Zealand Boxing Aseociation, at a meeting on Jan© % granted a request from the Wellington Boxing Association that me Australasian championships should be held there on September 9 and 10. Mr J. F. Gnereoa was elected chairman of the council. The trapper in the lonely ranges grim; The miner gaeping in the drivings dim; The horseman winding cattle o'er th« 3 plain; The farmer husbanding his golden gram ;i The pressman scorning time* at dead of night; The high, the low, and the cosmopolite; Tho shiv'ring beggar and the epicure — New Zealandera all— use Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.