'Broader Britain.'

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 920, 29 August 1896, Page 22

'Broader Britain.'

A. PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURE GALLERY.

Mr. R. Spbeokley, of Shortland-atreet } has now on sale the ' Broader Britain ' photographic seiries of porfolios, which inclnde some splendid pictures of the colonies and dependencies of the Crown, as well as of various other countries. We have inspected the series, and we can unhesitatingly say that the views are the " best we have ever .seen in an art series of the sort. The pictures are exceedingly clear and artistic, and the accompanying letter-press is terse bat vividly descriptive. The series is complete in 12 parts at 6d each; and the volnine bound in cloth is 10/6, or with gilt-edges, 12/6. Included in the views are some excellent pictures of typical scenes in Australia, New Zealand, India, North America, the West Indies, and elsewhere. We noticed some splendid pictures of the Niagara Falls, for instance, and the beat reproduction we have yet seen is the great Waikite geyser at Whakarewarewa. Altogether the set is well worth the money, and it would make a very valuable and handsome present to give to a friend or relation, for every picture is a real work of art and will well bear critical inspection.

According to the late ft. A. Proctor, in 16 millon years not a cteop of water will remain on the snrface of The earth. This looks bad for the teetotallers, doesn't it? It is recorded that an exceedingly wealty Adelaidean the other day called at the store and asked for his account. On getting it he asked for 2d, on' the ground that they had saved that mnch in not having to post the bill. He got it. The Waikato Times contains an account of a skilful operation performed by Dr Wilkins, of Auckland, on a man's right leg. The patient had been snff eringf or over six years from a Jarge warty growth, the size of a duck's egg, around the right outer ankle bone, which prevented the patient from wearing a boot or shoe. On coming to Auckland to see Dr. Wilkinß, that gentleman succeeded in clearing and removing the tumour. After carefully dissecting the tumour cleanly away, he filled up the large gap in the skin over and around the ankle by truusf erring a piece of skin from the calf of ihe leg, and adapted it edge to edge to the wound, and made the whole secure by a number of horse-hair sutnres. All the parts healed so quickly and accurately that in eight days he was up and about. The scars are small and almost imperceptible, and the leg and ankle are as good and useful as ever, in fact he could not be better.