ana resold a dozen times over till some pigeon is got in at a satisfactory prices and- is kindly allowed to keep it. In turn he must ran a little swindle on Mβ own account, by telling a friend (in strict confidence, you £>ow), whit a chance it Iβ to bay an allot ment tneocha place and district; it fe sore to doable in value inside a month, and he ought tobe " la it." and so this friend gets in at the expense of Mβ friend and so the thing goes onTbut ewm tb»« sort of a thing havje an ending some day, and the end is not far offi So mad and furious was the speculation a few months ago, that one lawyer told mc he had in his office instructions to prepare transfers of the same bit at real estate or j land from A.8.C.D.E.F., and G ; , before A waTaWe to give the title to B. He told mc j that he hadnot time to be in the boom ! himself, but would make more money on it than those in it, as he was paid cash for his work, while the other transactions W N^twit P this Melbourne fc a mighty city foe its age. Sixty years age it was only * hamlet with aurten mud cabins, and when ft few years later it was called by its present name m honour of Lord Melbourne, an English statesman, I do not fancy he was roach Jtetfcer.eA.Jo day it is the seventh city of the Bnttsh Empire. When the Queen began hep reign, it was only a little village on the banks of a dirty little stream ; to-day It has a population of not far short of half a millionTand has a dirty little stream yet. Its system of tramways U not excelled, if approached, by any other «ty in the world. When Melbourne gets over this yellow fever and set down to honest work, it will continue to wield * yasfc influence over the Australian Continent, bnt it is lamentable to see it as .it is now almost wholly given up to land speculation. A ,S»od advertising agent who can get ouvsome sensational novelty is well paid by the auctioneers. 