The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-27

oldest and richest one in China"
Mr.. Scaife then briefly recounts
his trip up the MINI River, past the
sites of several notable land and
naval battles in tile recent Franco
Chinese war. Several ironclads were
building at the Pagoda Anchorage,
where are dockyard and arsenal.
He proceeds;-
"After getting between 5000 and
1000 tons of first seasons tea on
board we left Foo Chow for Palm
erslon, Port Darwin, as we were the
mail steamer ard had to call for
mails. Things are getting a little
lively at Port Darwin; new ships
pier is in course of erection, and
new railway from Port Darwin to
Adelaide is being contracted for"
The steamer male brief calls at
several minor ports, but stayed two
days at Brisbane and about eight
days in Sydney. The writer savs:-
1 consider the harhor and en-
trance to it, at Sydney, the finest in
the world without exception, and
passing the Heads, especially at
night, with those enormous. powerful
electric lights lighting up the narrow
detilc, makes sight always to he
remembered afterwards. About three
days after leavin, Sydney we arrived
at the Queen City of Melbourne,
Victoria. / like Melbourne very
much, and think it one of the most
beautiful and best laid out cities l
have yet visited. The streets are
broad, the footpaths ditto, and are
kept exceedingly clean. Nearly all
the streets either have the wood
pavement or are receiving it, and
the new cable tramway is just COM
mencing to run out to Richmond and
the suburbs. Melbourne is. no
doubt, going ahead. Sydney is,
fine city, hut not, in my
opinion, anything in comparison to
Melbourne. The streets are too
narrow, crooked, and not over re-
markable for cleanliness, and the
public buildings do not show up to
the same advantage rs in Melbourne,
owing to their having the appearance
of having been crowded into their
present sites. and not having elbow
room.''
Mr.. Scaife describes the tragedy
on the Pennington racecourse on the
Saturday before his writing, when a
collision of two horses brought the
whole field of AZ horses down in
a struggling mass, from which
Nicholson, the leading Australian
jockey, was taken out dead and
many other Jockeys seriously in
jured. He gives a graphic des-
cription. too lengthy for our space,
of the terrible spectacle. Other mat
ters of general interest referred to
are the sculling race, to have come
off on the 10Th inst, between Beach
and another Australian for the
championship of the world, and
subsequently a race between Beach
and Teemer, the American who
lately defeated Hanlan. A post
script of Nov. 4lh describes the
race for the Melbourne Cup the pre-.
vious day: 1.-The scene was an es.
peciaIly brilliant one, and put one
much in mind of our Derby al
EPSON. The race itself was splen-
ddly run; all the field keeping wei
together for three-fourths of tho
distance and making a most brilliant
finish, beating the record, and yes
terday's cup was won in the quickest
time ever made in the Colonies-twc
miles in two minutes and 291 sec
onds. An outsider, Sheet Anchor,
was the winner and most of the
people present were pretty well bit.
Mr.. Scaife was doing well, il
good spirits, and well pleased will
his new location.