The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-01-08
READY FOR
FEDERATION
Sydney Prepares a Big
Pageant.
A GALA NEW YEAR DAY
South Sea Notes Including Some
thing About Changes in the
Samoan Islands.

ming to simmer with enthusiasm. TIL
bubbing point is timed for January /
The people generally are beginning t
. feel and show the influence of the time
a time when they are to be indlssolu
bly, bound together as one nation. Ii
town the Federal feeling is beginning
to show itself to some extent. People
are beginning to stream into the great
city. The backwoodsman has left his
lcrely haunt out in the Never Never
which is believed to be somewhere be-
hind the sun, and has grunted and
sweated over labor for the last time
this century. He is making a Decline
for Sydney, "Off to the Common.
wealth" The princely squatter mas
left his lovely home in the bush and Is
now luxuriously quartered in fashion
able apartments in the capital, and sc
1t is with thousands of representatives
of the various social stages between
these two types. The capital is being
Overrun with an invasion of sightseers.
1t is not only in New South Wales that
people are training and steamng and
even bicycling and motoring into Sgd
ney. There are troops of travellers
bound for the Commonwealth" maxi
ing for the great trysting place from
the uttermost ends of the continent.
Between three-quayters and a million
people are expected to witness the cere-
monies in the first week in January.
! Extraordinary prices are already being
asked and paid for accommodation.
| PREPARING THE CITY.
In the city there is a great nIte of
preparation everywhere. Through
miles of streets which the procession is
to go through on It's way to the Cen
tennial park, thousands of poles (pnnt-
ed white and relieved with Lord Hope
toun's colors, blue and gold have
been placed at short distances. Mas
sive arches are being constructed, the
cost of two of them, the Citizens and
the Victorians, running into four fig
ures. America will greet the new ma
ton" with a magnificent arch and Ger
many will be represented with a beau
tifully designed archway, while there
will also be wool and wheat arches to
commemorate the occasion. The Nile,
Trafalgar and Fashoda will be forgot
ten in Pitt street where the street will
be one mass of tri-color For novelty
the Canadians will take the palm In
the procession 1.-The Lady of he
\ Shows" will be represented by an en-
blematical car All that sydney art can
do is being devoted to the decoration
of these arches. Rising high In the Do
main and parks are stands for the cleo
trio light Examinations. AS apart from
the festooning OF the line OF march by
myriads of flags and strings of fOwors.
the citizens will decorate their build
ings also. the imagination can barely
picture what a gorgeous blaze of color
there will be.
| GH-PRICED SEATS.
| All along the five miles of the route
vast stands are being erected, and the
modest prices of from CT to CT los are
being asked for seats. Chairs on pri-
waite balconies are going at from los
to los apiece, Housetops and chimney
pots are not yet in the market. 1t is
some consolation to the wight who paws
big price for a peep at the pageant
and takes the risk of being toppled over
that the most rigid inspection of all
balconies and awnings has been au-
thorized; but still excited populaccs are
not bound by bylaws.
A FEDERAL FIZZLE.
Governments, like individuals, pro-
crastinate and through the dilatcriness
of the New South Wales authorities
there is a prospect of federation being
Consummated with a gigantic fz2lc. At
the earliest the c25OO worth of fire.
works ordered from England cannot
arrive in Melbourne until the end Of the
month, and then they would have to be
specially trained for Sydney. The birth
of a nation would not be- complete with
out a great blow up.
A MILITARY SPECTACLE.
As a military spectacle alone the pro-
ceedings on Commonwealth day should
be of a gloriously picturesque charac-
ter. Side by side with the flower of the
British army there will be gathered to-
gether the cream of the soldiers of the
Southern Cross. and the valiant colored
warriors from India, who in themselves
will, perhaps, form one of the most pic
turesque elements in the calebrat tons,
Victoria is to make brave military
show and 600 picked men, horse and
foot, and n band of fifty performers
are under orders Troops of emu
feathered, hardy Queenslanders, and al
so specially selected Contlngcnts from
the other colonies, are coming. Then
there are the grim, gaunt and granite
'aced' New Iealanders, as one man
las called them. Outside of the I'm
rial and Indian troops the men from
T. d." land of the Maori will be one of
the features of the procession. New
Zeal nd's patriotic stock stands high
in australasia. Their Australian COM