The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-14

another picture l shall never forget while
I live. I should like to live in Honolulu.
Nine days after leaving there we
dropped anchor in the harpor Of Suva, Fiji
Islands, but although it is also a rich
tropical place, its resources are not very
well developed, and the natives, although
subdued, are still rather wild, and go
about with only piece of cloth around
their middle They are about the same
size and color as the Hawaiians, but their
features are more repulsive and they are
not nearly so intelligent. The islands be-
long to England and the missionaries are
working among them and in time / sup
pose they will be fully civilized. There are
large sugar plantations on the islands,
but the natives wont work much, as they
have to import Indian coolies to work
them. A party of US took a run out in
the country and visited some native huts
and the barracks Of the native police and
soldiers. We first had breakfast at one
Of the hotels and Indian coolies waited
on us. and tasted several varieties Of
tropical fruits that I hadn't tasted before.
We stopped here only from a. m. to 5
p. m, and our next stop was Wellington.
New Zealand. the capital and q city Of
about 10000, and engaged mostly in ship
ping out wool, dairy products and frozen
meat, and shipping in supplies, as every
thing except their natural products has to
be shipped in. They do not manufacture
much. Their trade with England is quite
heavy. also some with America. Our
ship unIoaded an ice machine at Yelling
ton from the factory in Chicago at which
Mr.. Kimmel works.
Three days after leaving Wellington we
passed in between the giant rocks of sid
ney Heads" into the most beautiful har-
Dor in the world Here Is a natural har-
Dor that requires no dredging, and al
though the distance from the Heads
up TO Sidney City is only about two miles,
tn shores of the harbor are over forty
miles long and the largest ships can tie
up at their wharves without dredging. as
the shores of the harbor are over forty
The harbor is full of sharks too, and al
though the water is warm most of the
year. people can't battle in the surf unless
there is a fence built out in the water
from the beach to keep out the sharks.
sydney is a city of about 500. 900 popula-
ton, and it and Melbourne (Which is
about the same size), holds one-fifth Of
the population Of all Australia, a continent
as big as the United States So much of
Australia IS desert and uninhabtable.
Sydney is an un-to-date city and has
many fine buildings CHE best of them
American business buildings). finely paved
streets, and they are just getting their
! first electric street cars, but they have
cable cars. also steam dummy cars and
omnibuses, Ike London. They call all
! street cars here trans
The government owns all railways
/ street cars, telegraph, telephones, etc.
/ The railways are on the English com
! partment plan and are quite different
/ from ours at home. This is not much of
a country for railways. and most Of the
/ shipping Is by steamships, as all the prin-
/ cia. cities are along the coast. Some Of
/ their laws are ridiculous, and as the con-
! tjnent is divided Up into five colonies they
/ are all independent of one another and
! don't pull together. Their railway lines
! are all different gauge, so at the border
/ OF two colonies. passengers have to get out
! and change caysFrank Anderson in
/ and change cars. all goods nave to be
/ transferred also, and customs inspectors
/ 50 through everything looking for du-
/ tia6ie goods. In arriving at this place I
/ passed through customs inspection five
/ times and didn't travel by rail either
/ So many things are called by different
( names out here For instance food Is cali
( ed tucker lunch is crib pound in
( English money is called 'quid,' a shil-
lins is a bob a cart is 'drsy:' a dray
IS '5owry;' a freight car Is called a
covered goods wagon: al such cars are
/ goods wagons miners lunch bucket
: called Billy a lemonade s called a
squash and its blamed seldom set any
I Ice in Il. as ice IS scarce in Australia de-
( spite the fsct tha; Il s q hot climate
most Of the year. When a camper cooks
his dinner ne calls Il boiling the billy
We'll 7 spent three days in SYDNEY and
took steamer for Melbourne. found shat
city made the same as Sydney. except
that the streets are wider and think
( the buildings are finer. The finest build
ing in that city IS the Equitable Life IN
surance of The United States. The people
OF Australia, generally speaking. Ike the
Americans. and during tre Spanish war
they say there was great excitement and
about 1oeo of them volunteered their ser
vices TO the different American consuls.
but II course their services could not e.
accepted. They were almost as much
pleased with our victory as We were.
! STOPPED n Melbourne two DAYS and
took another steamer for Freenouth. rhe