Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-12
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An with all South America and Next
nrown in. The fact is there is more
"a OF value taan In lndia, anu WIN
irso trade in wool and tin the Ameri-
can people will soon turn their races
here. We don't get I't
OF this immense trade. ceN
lines Of immense steamers from here
Weekly communication with Erg am,
France and Germany. The PeHlLsuia'
snd Oriental; the Orient line; the French
Messagerie and the German-Dutch
Nord sending 5000 and 1000 ton snlpS
here weekly, and our America senuihe
little 1000 or 1000 ton snip once
month, and we two thousand mi'eS
nearer than England.
will not here express my
FEELINGS OF DISGUST
with the party who have so shaped leg
iSlatiOn as TO prevent our countrymen
from having q hare OF this trade. l
know of an order seat from this city
three DAYS since TO Chicago for some
thing over Sl5, 900 worth OF soap, and
an order from Sydney to a glass mouse
not twenty miles from wheeling lot
$1,000 or 10000 lamps.
Blpks In these colonies are about as
numerous as hotels in Chicago. l READ
in q city paper day or two since Oh the
36th seml-annual statement of the Clt!
of Melbourne Bank showing net pront
In six months business Of 1884, ITO. vi
course they make their statements 10
mounds. / count a pound hive dollars
iu making rough estimate. The capt
tai stock of this bank is two and one
half million OF dollars. They declared
q dividend of Is per cent. and carried
forward & large amount TO the surplus.
The report SAID they had Gl3, 600 soVer-
eigns and about coo, 600 dollars Of bullion
i'm their vaults.
There are many very large banking
concerns in all the colonies. Brisbane
has four immense banks, splendid build
inrs standing on the four corners oil
the intersections OF the main streets.
| There is also in Brisbane an immense
soft goods store, ID. ID. Brown n Co.,
five floors, covering thirteen acres OF
flooring, with patent sprinklers ana
every modern device for extinguiShing
fire. Bisbane and suburbs have pop
latIon Of 1857; and is a beautiful
tropical city. The people met were
particularly kind and hospitable. Sgd
new is improving daily in her buildings;
has the finest hotel south of the equator,
the Australia; is making substantial
improvements around her Dostotfice.
Her population is over $780, The
city of Melbourne has q population Of
between 400, 600 and 100000. She has
completed her magnificent parliament
buildings and postoftice since was here
in 1855.
l notice quite a number Of splendid
buildings now going up. Adelaide,
city Of $50, 600 inhabitants is undoubt-
eddy the Queen City Of this Southern
Hemisphere.
HER BEAUTIFUL STREETS,
park lands, and botanical and geological
gardens, so beautifully kept, make her a
delightful and attractive city. Her
citizens are purer English and Scotch
than in any OF the colonies, and an air
of refinement peryades the city not
noticeable in any OF the other cities.
In a few days I go with party up
the Murray river to visit the larger lrri-
CATION Colonies of the Chaffey Brothers.
l will in my next give a description Of
this vast irrigation scheme. l now give
notice 10 all American woolgrowers TO
put their best foot formoSt at the CO.
lumbar Exhibition. For when the
American people see what they have
been deprived of in the way of cheap
wooden clothing, there will be revolu-
ton in the way of free trade in Austral-
ian woods. Then let those tin people
have samples of American tin on exhi-
btion. Tasmania has a very large
Colonial Exhibition to open on Novem-
Der 25th, TO which have the honor Of
an invitation. The great cup race
comes of next Tuesday, on the Elem
ington course, the finest race course in
the world. A. G.