The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-09-11

in and year out Children are born, grow up
and live in these vaults who have never seen
the bright sun or the ethereal armament.
Down in this region of blackness l can imag-
inc how the little boy felt when FIRST told about
the sunshine. soaring IN the heavens, about the
blue sky and its bending canopy, the shining
stars and the milky moon; the green fields, the
blooming flowers, and the rustling trees. and
vapory clouds, towering mountains, aud roaring
oceans, watery seas. and beds of snow and the
little fellow thinking his dark world the only
one, didn't believe word of it, heard it a
stretch OF the imagination, or the inventions Of
some extravagaHt mind, aud listened to the fas-
cinating story some fairy tale, or mighty
genus in the Arabian Nights relating once on
u time"
After spending day down in the mines,
came up glad to see the beauties of the upper
world, aud to companion among the creations Of
natures handy work.
On Saturday evening 1 strolled out to the
lake shore. 10 60 there. /. like new conner in
New York years ngo, to fud Beecher's Church,
Just fell in with the crowd and soon reached
the beach. Boat houses, canoes, skifs. are lying
along the shores. Skiffs are flying like arrows
over the lake. A band of music aud picnic
party are making merry, out on the water. Two
little steamboats, cross the bay every half hour
One little side wheeler covered with pleasure
seekers is padding its foaming way. over to the
Botanical Gardens on the other side. Crowds
of ladies and children are promenading along the
gravely shore and sitting among the beach-side
benches watching the sunset going down in
the Australian forest. in the west coloring the
forest and flooding the bay 10 crimson light. |
| took little skitf aud rowed out over the CLASSY
waters. Down in its clear depths, the white
scaly fish and varied spsckled perch are dart
ing about like silver swords White clouds drift
over the lake and picture their floating masses
down in the reflected waters beneath. II is
! mountain lake. but unlike Tahoe IN the Sierras.
1t has no towering peaks, clefted crags, snow
capped cliffs. or bold mountain ranges hanging
over its sky-rehected waters, standing sentinel
thousand feet in the sky above, with feecy
clouds gathered around their castelated heights,
and forests of whispering frs climbing their
rock-rjbbed base, and perching themselves aloft
like lightning rods on tip-top of their broken
submits. In its shadow haunted chasm the god
| of silence holds eternal sway, broken only by
the flash OF forksd Iightnings playing among the
rifted peaks, and the peal of rolling thunder re-
verberating among the crags, mingled with the
howl OF stempest, the surge Of the winds, and
the crash of storm.
| Here festive life dances on every wave, and
ringing laughter floats on every breeze, on the
| low fiat banks the trees stood up like an army of
spears. crossed over to the gardens. The flowers
are wilted by a late frost and hang like sea-sick
"sixteens." When | returned the stars are
winking in the lake and the moon is sailing high
| in the heavens.
Balarat has theatre and opera house.
Cheevers & Co. are here. They have had a
hard time of it in Australia. The dramatical
critics numerically waded into them in Mel
bourne. American actors generally fare i'll at
| their hands. Pope went away bankrupted,
while Jem Mace has made fortune. Rope
walkers, jugglers, slight of hand performers.
boxing clubs, pugilists, pedestrians, cricketers
horse-racers. do we'll here, as do anyone coming
along on level with their critical comprehen-
| sion. When public opinion will not tolerate
| reformation of American actors, concessions are
made grudgngy.
Melbourne is graded by horns. have heard
| of individuals taking small horn or having a
weakness for large horn" But their con-
stituted upper ten demand 10 know the number
of your short horn" or have a curiosity TO cal
culate the arithmetic OF you: "long horn" alias
cattle.
| The governor only gets pittance of $4,000
| year, aud the people have actually had the au-
dacity to complain because he applied to the
crown for fifty more. By-the-bye, one day
dropped an inquiry about the governor to
| friend - His Excellency. sir-Governor will do
for California" And he spoke with fear and
| trembling, as if he but dared to take his sacred
name upon bis unrighteous lips. Being personally
acquainted with Plnchback and Moses, the ther
| mometer OF my eXecutiye-reverence stood at
about zero.
| A member of the Victorian Parliament has
been placed upon bis trial for divorce, bigamy.
| murder, manslaughter, arson, ETC.. indictments
| following up each other like beads on string
His wife deposes that he is supposed to have
| only killed two men and poisoned third Being
duly sworn further testfes, that he in capacity
of person, while officiating as shepherd of lit
tie, flock, did then and there set fire unto, and
burn down the sanctuary for the insurance. But
| three wives have been heard from. Hr
| Our friends in Sydney have been practising
! with their torpedoes. They touched one of 10
see it blow. 1t exploded within ten feet of pass
ing vessel covered black with passengers. came
within an ace of sending three hundred to their
graves; deluged the ship with water, half drown
ed its inmates and frightened the other half of
! them. The wires are disconnected, the pipes
wont work, the triggers wont go of. They have
o volcano on their hands. The life insurance
agents are greatly alarmed. s4 81
| One sceptical captain offered to sail his ship
over the torpedoes in the Iiarbor pass the forts
under full fire and enter Melbourne unscathed.
1t is needless to say the government rejected
| MS project ao LreuSOUdUle. ue military QueS-
toned his sanity. but he insisted ON the expert
ment. Rev. Waterhouse, the veteran Fijlan
missionary, who for thirty years has wrestled
with the natives OF Viii Levuka is delivering
course of lectures at Geelong.
Geeloug, though riotng under the bond of an
outandish name, is. the prettiest place in Aus
tralia The roll OF lords after whom Melbourne,
Wellington, Auckland, Nelson, aud Sydney were
called. must have been exhausted. 1t lays at
the head of beautiful bay on the top Of high
steep bluffs. like Natchez ON the Mississippi.
with fine background, and cone like noun
tain rising up at the eastern gateway of the
bay. Its blue bay with its rows of rollers, heavy
surf aud sandy beach reminds one OF Hilo.
Hawaii.
1t should have been the capital of Victoria.
aud was the peoples 2211l choice. 1t was the
old settlers pet But the question was referred
to q committee OF black heads for settlement,
who notwithstanding the former was high and
dry and BEAUTIFULLY situated, located the capital
in its present cesspool of pestilence, among its
river marshes and fever lagoons. at Melbourne
for the sole advancement of undertakers and
doctors. i a-.g sisla -I.r.ti : ts
Whether this fossil commission owned prop
erty there or bought 10 advance, have not en-
quired, but it is safe to bet on one or the other.
Late Fijian files bring intelligence Of destruc-