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cable trams, a company having obtained a concession to put down fifty 

 miles of these costly roadways. Let a heavy shower of rain fall at or about 

 six p.m., however, and the rush is too great for the accommodation, and those 

 ' too late ' have to wait for return vehicles, and to bewail their misfortune. 



Bird's-eye View of Central Melbourne. 



In public buildings Melbourne would be really great, if all that have been 

 begun were finished. But few are. The citizens are not running up miserable 

 flimsy structures, but are building for posterity. Final contracts have been 



