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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 36, 27 December 1889, Page 31

Goldfields of great value are said to have b?en discovered in the vicinity of Managua, Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan Government has sent engineers to lay out a new city at toe Atlantic terminus of the proposed canal, to be named '' America." Augusta Holmes, the girl who has leaped into the world -wide fame by her grand Triumphal Ode in honour of the French Republic, which was produced in Paris before 22,000 spect itors, is a FrancoIrishwoman. The first performanoe of her great Ode was a magnificent affiir, the co3t of the staging in the Palais de l'lndustrie being more than 70,000 dols. The orch stra of 300 selected musicians vras led by M. Golonne, the famous orchestral leader. The production is of an exalted cVs of poetry, and the grandeur of the work is equalled by the appreciation of the great city. Joaquin Miller is one of the many prominent men who have been lately asked by a newspaper syndicate to say what they would do if they were women. We infer from his reply 'hat Mr. Miller has no intention at present of entering that sphere of lif >. He says if be wore, that he would " quit fooling with fig leaves," meaning dre3B, and adds, brutally :—": — " My, oh my llf a woman only could learn bow to keep quiet in word and deed and dress, what a dominion would be hers 1 All the ships we sail are for her ; the gold and diamonds that we dig, the deepest ruins we explore, the lands we discover and subdue, the battles that we fight, where brother goes down to death against brother— all, all for woman ! Yet here she goes galloping up and down street car and store, store and street cir, the same garrulous parrot as when she was the first to speak to the serpent ; the first to open her sweet mouth and eat of the forb.dden fruit. Fig leaves and flirtations I Flirtations and fig leaves I ' Get tbee to a nunnery.' " But Joaquin isn't a woman, and it i« well for him be isn't, after ottering those atrocious libels.— Pilot,