It might have been thought that the various post-offices of the world suffered ao much extra trouble and worry from the recently- of sending Christ mas and New Year cxrds,—a custom which the Getieral Post-n@ more nding of Valentines used February,—that they of a post-card more than the proverbial grocer's boy does the taste of sugar. So fur from this being the the postal admi ions of the world bit of sending each a special card to ite colleagues at the New Year: and by the kindness of Mr. Machado, we have en allowed It contains three panels, the inner of which present views of the post offices at Melbourne, past, present and future. The past is dated 1853 and represents 3 row of wooden sheds, which have way to the magnificent building of the present, which is itself only " portion of the really handsome block, with a lofty campanile, which is to be the ge office of the future, On the out panels, the contre cental tions of the officers of the post office and telegraph department of Melbourne, fimuked on one hand-by a beautiful engraving of Government house Melbourne, and on the other hand by x sylvan econo with the wonderful Lyre-bird in the foreground, 'Téhérau, St. Viueout, the Philippines and Quatemala send plainly-printed cards of congratulation, Guatemala adding in the margin a view of its post office: Munich sends an artistic card with the post waggon of the past on it contrasted with the modern mail-train, Geneva sonds a view of her celebrated lake with the ann rising over it, while in one corner civilisation, typified by a young lady in the most modern French costume, is standing on ons side of the globe and talking through the telephone to a noble savage and feathers on the elver card is in the modern with a tinted hama, Calcutta sends "with all good wishes" a perfectly executed photograph of the General Post Ottice in the City of Palacos, itself an Ionic Palace with a lofty dome, the reflection in the river below '80 perfect that one longs for little breeze to rutile the water. The card from Sydney is a largo double one, of somewhat rough execution, giving views of Sydney ey Fails, a vignette of supporter, the Kangaroo, and a page of postal atatiatics, from which we learn that the 921,129 souls who made up the population of New South Wales on Slat December, 1884, contributed in that ne to the postal and tele-and over 23,000,000 newspaper Italian admin of congratulations most promijects in which is the name and of the producer, Last, but not least, comes England with a largo chromoithographed card hearing new year greot~ ug from the officers vf the general post office, London, to their colleagues at Shanghai, surrounded by pictures of the General Post Office St. Martin's lo Grand, the field post in the Soudan, a post cart, a mail-steamer, mail-train, s rural post cart and a gentleman telephoning into space. Ihe execution of the card is hardly worthy of the intention.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.