OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 26 August 1905, Page 23

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

JULIET’S HOUSE IN’ VERONA. In connection with the revival of “Romeo and Juliet” by the .Tittell Brune Co., the picture we give of Juliet’s house in Verona. Northern Italy, is particularly interesting. The house, which is situated in the Via Capello, was sold recently for .£136. It is an old brick structure, with pointed windows and a quaint Italian balcony, bearing on the keystone of its arch a cardinal’s hat in high relief, the insignia of the Capulet family. It has lately been used as an inn, tinder the name of the Osteria del Cappello. Romeo and Juliet are said to have loved and died in the reign of Bartolomneo (1301-1304). Near the Via Pad lone, within a garden in the Vicolo S. Francesco al Corso, a side street of Via Capp'uccini. is a suppressed Franciscan monastery, where a chapel contains a medieval sarcophagus called the Tomba di Giulietta, or Tomb of Juliet. A BIG PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. ii» The photographs we give on another page of the railway built by the Taupo Totara Timber Company to connect

their mill at Mokai with the Government line at Put arum junction, a distance of 75 miles, show what cun be done by private enterprise. The line, which was built by Messrs McLean Bros., of Auckland, was started two years ago last June, and will be formally opened next week. Its total cost, including rolling stock, will be between L’ 70.660 and £ 75,000. The line is built on the same gauge as the Government lines, 3ft Gin, wi*. Il 301 b rails and 3000 sleepers to the mile. It govs over about 22 miles of fair country and then rises up the MaungiH Range, about 1800 ft above sea level, in some four miles. To get the necessary grades necessitates some pretty sharp curves in the line. On the other side the line falls about the same distance in ten miles to the Waikato River. which is •to sued by a wooden bridge with a 237 ft span, ended a braced arch construction. ’.vhrh v.as designed by Mr. Fulton, of Welling’on. Thence to the mill the line rises 1100 or 1200 feet, and lure again there are sonic fairly sharp curve’. ’I lie country passed through is mostly pumice and w’ivvi grass, and is of very lit« !<• use for agricultural purposes. The line is a really fine piece of work from ml to end, and Joes credit to all concerned in its construction.