Arizona republican., 1891-03-29
ARIZONA ABROAD. Wild and Woolly Cowboys
 in Australia. Wonderful Sights of That Southern Land. Enthusiasm of It's Inhabitants Over the Feats of the Wild
 West Show.
special Correspondence of TIE REPUBLICAN.

Special correspondence ot THE REPUBLICAN.
 BRISBANE, Australia, February 10.
 The little band of Arizona cowboy that left Phoenix in August last, to joi the Wild West show in Australia, are a the present time still in the arena, al though badly scattered. It will be re membered that the troupe consisted 0 Jack Brown, George Felton, Mexican Ralph, myself and Juan Ca-to-te, tn Yuma Indian, who, by the way, was tn last precious gift to me by Hon San Purdy.
 We sailed from San Francisco on tn steamship Zealandia, August 23.
 The wonderful voyage seems more lik, a dream now than reality-the day spent in steaming over the trackles waste of the grand Pacific, the beautiful tropical islands, with their strange trees, magnificent ferns and lusclou, fruit, the tulI-breasted semi-Adam-claC islanders coming on board, swimming ana diving for pennies, the strange vehicles with never more than one horse at, tached, all tend to recall to one who has ever read the Good Book, the old Biblical days. Between these islands and New Zealand an awful storm came upon us It Is impossible for me U describe the feeling oI goneness that took possession oi me during the twenty-four hours that We were shut out from the light. The monster boat screeched and cracked under the mountains of sea that rolled over her, leaving only smokestack and masts uncovered. The captain said him. self that had she shipped another sea at one time all would have gone down.
 We reached Auckland, New Zealand, in sixteen days. 1t is a rich and beauti- iul country. The scenery is simply grand, a rich, fertile soil, dense forests, rich mines and a paradise for the stock man. There is no place on earth where they raise finer or faster horses, latter cattle or better sheep than they do in these beautiful islands. The climate is about like that on the coast of middle California.
 The people are a rugged, healthy lot. They have the brightest of complications and reddest of cheeks, the blood seem- ing to almost burst through the skin. They have a hereditary tendency to go on strikes and in mobs. They are great lovers of outdoor sports, even old gray-headed men seeming to never tire Ot riding, hunting and fishing. The men give their male companions, horses aai dogs, more attention than they do the ladies. cannot say that blame them much, for the most shocking of all habits Oi the Australian is the drunkenness so prevalent amongst the women of ali classes, particularly the higher class, who drink at all hours and meal times.
 Tor progress, it is slow country. Nothing can induce these people to deyiate from the old groove of their English father and grandfather.
 The hotels are simply bad; you must eat what is put before you and no reason- able amount can secure change in the bilI oi fare. They are all built on the same plan and are called publics. Each has from one to three bars, with young women bartenders.
 We gave our first Wild West entertain ment in conjunction with the Sireus in Auckland to an appreciatiye audience oi IOOO people. A great deal of the wild American conceit was taken out of us by The fearless riding of the New Zealand young ladies, who seemed to think it nothing to jump, while riding at full speed, stone walls, high fences and hIIen trees. When the wild horses were turned into the arena and the las sOlng was announced a wild yell of Orayo! went up from every throat, and, whether we scored catch or a mss, we were applauded just the same. Although this IS one of the leading s'ocK countries of the world, they had never seen the lasso thrown. In the large canvas we put on many very realistic scenes of frontier life, such as the death of the lone trapper, attack l upon the Deadwood stage coach, lynch Ing ot horse thief, and many others | that would bring forth dozens of bad | eggs Tn America.
 "egaye one open air exhibition, un- uer wager or fifty guineases that we were to catch and tie down notorious | seVen-year-old bullock. It was bad | uuay but ten thousand people come through drenching rain to see the per- otIhShce. In one minute and half | we had the bullock down and tied. 1 brown was soon on him careering around the paddock.
 ., me Mexican could not suppress @ cry Viva America" and the enraged | s'9cS dealer who had lost his wager, set anoWIing mob of one hundred larrikins THroodIulnsj upon us in short notice. aug cowboys were soon to the rescue, them. p'''0i '''p'''o' At tarmiston, in the north island of Ie" Zealand, the Wild West part of the Ino" t become inoculated with the strike a,i Sie' and a general bust-up was the re- p. put' Alter few successful exhibitions, D'oNh and few others were induced tS tTlG'urn to the circus, Brown assuming "' r'e Ieadership under salary of $15O XIV H'. week. During stay of three months cain i'ougn these islands they were re- on,".u n,'eu by the elite and nobility with Ca"TeIched arms, and the name of SaP'' Jack Brown has become a house. asn Su word. Asan Indian dramatist he is ni'u'cess, and in this horsey gun-pop- derrs country he is regarded as won iDt Dlring the time Brown was rais- sucl sensation in New Zealand, Ina "'ih Texas Jack, Jr. the Mexican and gatoI Iindlans, completely circumnavi- Mali tue little islands and landed in , the eV1uTT9e, W".TG, the fastest sporting town in sre so "oL'a' Perhaps no people on earth thosoO GeEoted to amusements as are q AliIoioI the young Australian nation. nllv "u oi outdoor sports are wonder