12 JANUARY 1895, page 11

Omens From Birds.

M IYOJI ITO, Secretary-General of the Imperial Cabinet of Japan, and a Member of the House of Peers, has presented to the Mikado a memorandum of "an unprece- dentedly auspicious......

Sentiment And Sep17lture.

J UST behind Vailima, Mr. Stevenson's estate on the coast of Samoa, rises a precipitous though well-wooded hill, itself a peak of the gigantic mountain which, lifting itself for......