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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 7, 8 June 1883, Page 5

The London Era noticing a recent performance of Paganini Redivivus, in St. James' Hall, speaks in high terms of the great ability of the violinist.. The performance consisted of twenty-four caprices, representing the famous studies of Paganini, and was attended by some of the most jlebrated musicians of the day. The Era says that the performance was not only a complete success, but was a feat such as few, if any, of the most eminent violinists of the present day would either dare or care to attempt. Paganini Redivivus is a son of the popular Dublin violinist, Mr. Levey. " There is now," says the London Tablet, " little doubt that the Conservatives are practically unanimous in the wish to facilitate in every way the speedy formation of a peasant proprietary in Ireland, and we suppose that Lord George Hamilton's bill is the first move in this direction." The bill referred to is one soon to be introduced by LjMf* George Hamilton to make the purchase clauses of the Land Acj^m J effectual. This information comes at a timely moment, jUBnY "Je Land League Convention assembles. It is a splendid proof of the service done by that organisation. — Pilot. " Notwithstanding the fact," says a writer in the New York Sun " that all goon men should and do regret the difficulty between Ireland and England, is it not somewhat pardonable for citizens of this country to smile inwardly at England's present scrape, when we remember the position that country took with reference to our recent civil war? I think it would have a powerful influence on public opinion in this country if some of the editorals of the leading English journals cloring the period covered by that war could be given a wid« publicity here at the present time. Possibly Treland could find no better way to gain our sympathy than by entering on an enterprise of this kind,"