The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-05-08

people The papers here devote more space to |
o chicken fght or horse race or cricket match |
than to the Turkish Russian war A racer and |
smart hound or good setter will command |
better prices than good preacher and about as
much reverence. Melbourne has good supply
OF churches, but they are slimly attended. The
" Independent Congregational is the Austria
lian Plymouth Church. 1t is constructed like an
ancient Roman amphithestre with circularraised
seats and double floors. The pastor, Rev. Thos.
Jones, is the Antipodal Beecher-(his morals
are more steady. HIS rich coloring, poetical
and dramatical sensational style of preaching
attracts thousands of admirers and draws crowd
ed houses. lie is one Of the institutions OF Aus
trala, of whom she NAV well be proud-a gifted
man and talented scholar. But be does not CON-
maud that electrhying oratory or magueticai
power of attraction that live and sparkle from
Henry Ward Beecher. The Congregatoualists
here are the pioneer church-the head and front
UNCONVENTIONAL body of the Continent. Both in
Sydney and Melbourne they possess the ablest
clerical talent aud the strongest and deepest
ecclesiastical minds.
The Catholics and the Protestants have re-
Gently had regular hand to hand fight o dis
asirous row in Hyde Park, Sydney. over one
parsou Allen Several ribs we're broken. 1t
required all the Police Force in the city to
quell the riot, $4,000 we're engaged in the fight.
The animal and bird creation of the anupodes
are strange reversion of the laws of nature.
Four-iegged animals walk straight up on their
hind.legs ond ouIrun the wind, with their heads
carried high in the air. The kangaroo Jumps 40
rods at pace using his monstrous tail as pro-
peller. They use all their bind.legs from their
knees. down, as feet, and sit on their lunches
with cunning looking eyes and ears. at full cock
on tue alert. ready for spring at hunters tread.
| The little kangaroo lives in his mothers pouch
and looks out OF his window at you, with his lit
| tie black eyes sparkling with mischief. On see
| ing man he makes spring bomeward bound,
| then thrusts his head out to see who is looking
| The Eangaroos over the great interior plains are
thick wild gueese in the tnle lands Of Cali
| fornIa, and can outrun a horse. Hunters sur
round and drive them up into pens by thousands
at drive, for their skins. The bird creation is
equally strange standing erect on their rod-like
stems as fishing canes. Parrots OF gorgeous
plumage and multitudinous colors inhabit the
forest The trees here shed their bark instead
OF their leaves. The cherry stones grow outside
of the fruit. The trees lean toward the attIac.
tion of the planets.
All the Australian colonies have been about
baukrupted with late continuous drought.
| SQuatters who had 100000 heads of sheep
are without single hoof, and are serving as
herders for living. The churches throughout
the country appointed day to fast aud pray tor
rain. That morning before they began To wres-
tie with the Lord, the clouds opened their food
gates and poured cut deluge upon the people
and drowned half dozen. and is about to wash
the country and everything off Now, PROPOSE
tions have been agItated about addressing the
Lord touching its disconunuance.
The Australians lack the bountiful vegetation,
ba Inv, fra,b o
and the rich variety of floral beauty and tropical
growth that nature hns so abundantly lavished
upon the Sandwich Islands. Their mountains
are dull in outlines, have not the bold rugged
architecture, the symeclrcal design or the Pc
cular beauty belonging to the Hawaiian ranges.
1t has no such glorious pondrances AS pictured
from Nuuanu Pail. or the bewitching beauty Of
the pretty little Hawaiian valleys. Trees walled
and swung with waterfalls. 1t lacks its coat of
perpetual green. Its highest mountains are void
of the bold grandeur of Mauna Kea or the i'm
pressive majesty of Haleakala and the cloud
| robed dome of Mannaloa. Here you would miss
the wreath of gay colored flowers. sweet swell-
ing shrubs the cool inviting shade. the rustling
creepers, the tapping ferns. the rainbows and
| tropical foliage, tue green shadow mounted for
est that crown Its mountain slopes, the world
OF swaying vines. dangling from the white bark
trees of Hawaii. aud its deep winding canyons
and leapng cataracts Of Waiplo. Its coffee groves
and orange blossoms, its balmy air and sunny
skies. perpetual bloom and eternal spring.
The changes are bolsterous and violent; the
climate chargeabe and oppressive, both damp
dry and hot. Its winds are gales and hurricanes
of destruction, turning loose tornadoes like bat
terlng rams over the country. Nature wears @
dull unattractve sullen Interchangeable aspect, as
dull IN Its unbroken summers, as the banks Of
the Mississippi river. You have no change OF
variety to refresh the eye, but dust enough to
put out the eyes of argus. The continent resem
bles the sand-hIlls east of Waikiki or the coun
try inter Reno and Ogden. between Salt Lake
and Tahoe. the land to its farthest confines
so do the flowers open, and the melons aud Gu.
cumbeas curve in that direction EcIpses and
natural phenomena are more frequent here, anG
strange stars bedeck the sky. The moonlight i;
merely candle light compared with her rict
floods OF silver in the Sandwich Islands. The
seasons here are reversed aud the climate Of
temperature reverses itself about six times
day, you can perspire and sneeZe at the SAINT
time. The hot winds blow for days from the
vast sandy deserts and cook the life OF man
until breath of fresh air is worth a dollar
During these desert gales humanity willis lik,
mown hay, and laying on their backs just for AR
The country suffers from strong severe drought
oi Twelve months at slTetcn, Wnen sneep ant
cattle die by millions. Very little grain i
. grown in the eastern colonies. Western Aus
tralia supplies them with wheat. from her vas
fields upon the Murray. The Murray Valley j
also great mine producing region, aud fine AMI
extensive vineyards clotha its banks. Wine 0
the rarest vintage and grapes Of delicious favor
are exported from its teeming valleys Easter
Australia is devoted TO herding and mining
Immense herds Of cattle cover its great plateaus
and is filled with viilianous feas. spiders, scorp
ions. bugs. reptiles, singing insects, poisonOu
euats, biting lizards, and swarms of stingIn
flies.
The colonials have become greatly alarmet
i about the probability of Russian men-of-wa
, bombsrding their cities. Hundreds of torpedOe
arc being sunk in the harbors of Melbourne an
Sydney, awaiting hostile fleets from the Siberia
. coasts. Peace be to their borders. Aloha nj