The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-01-20
MELBOURNE THE GEM
OF THE SOUTHLAND
American Praise for
the Queen City of
Australia.
THE INDUSTRIES OF the COUNTRY
PACE WHERE BUSINESS MEN DO
NOT GO WITH A
RUSH.
THE INDUSTRIES OF THE COUNTRY
Gala Scenes of the Great Race Days
Christmas Coming in Midst of Tor
rid Summer-oreanizati of Fed
eral Government.

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27.-The Queen of the Antipodes, mar
velous in her phenomena growth.
magnificent in her architectural beau
". rich in her enterprise, commerce.
banking and manufacturing; an Attn
ems" in the excenence and number OF
her colleges. schools, Conservatives,
libraries and museums: sportsman 5
paradise. where the race course, the
cricket ground and the bicycle track
and moonlight concerts attract lovely
women in most fashionable and natty
toilets. and the best dressed. best tenn
pered and most prodigal men TO be
seen anywhere in the world in bet
ting paddock: city of life. thrift and
progress-such is sIelbourne.
Her half million of people are among
the very choicest OF ali Gods crea-
tons. and of All people know best
how to get the most out of life; how
to inaugurate sports and then heartily
enjoy them: how to conduct the great
commercial interests OF the city with
out fretting and Tuning: how to do
business as if it We're but passtime
and pleasure. II there is one factor
more thar another that has been con-
ducive to the upbuilding of Melbourne
as a great metropolis it is the glad
hand" for in no city | have ever seen
is there such uniform courtesy in trade
as here.
1t is difficult indeed for the readers
of The Republican TO understand that
away in the Southern hemisphere is
a city pulsating with the throb beats
of mighty commerce. With a people
as progressive and thrifty as in any
city of equal size in the world: with
the most beautiful streets, and eX-
quisite architecture in her public
buildings to be found anywhere out
side of Paris: with a street railway sys-
tenn as perfect as the genius of man,
aided by unlimited capital, can pro-
duce; with public institutions as ex-
tensive and pretentious as are found
on the great continents.
Melbourne is manufacturing city.
The diversity of her industries. is dis
tributed in the production of agricul-
tural machinery, boots and shoes, fur
niture, hats, clothing, etc. Her whole
sale trade, in which must be included
her importing interests. represents
every phase of commerce and at once
fixes upon her the Importance of being
the great distributing market for Vic
toria. South Australia, Tasmania and
the southern part of New South Wales,
and having spoken of Victoria | may
profitably to your readers refer TO her
natural advantages as colony Her
agricultural interests are represented
in the production of wheat. oats. bar
ley and the cereals indigenous to the
temperate zone. Her sheep stations"
(or as we better understand. ranches)
are not excelled in the world. and the
value of breeding rams is perhaps
greater here than anywhere else on
earth. Let me quote few prices:
One ram sold recently for 1.500 gum
cas-, or S7S75; another for 500 gum
cas-. and another for 500 guineas.
The DEVELOPMENT of the race horse
is prosecuted with an interest only
approached in the great Blue Grass"
region of Kentucky.
The gold mines of Victoria have
done much to add to the material
wealth OF the colony, and her wine in
dustry has extended ner fame to every
market in Europe and the eastern con-
tinent
| must not be understood. however.
as writing only of the virtues of this
great colony; she has her disadyant-
ages and her plaques. Her seasons
are treacherously uncertain: while
Providence may send the rains TO pro-
duce prolific vegetation and make the
farmers heart glad. it is not uncom-
mon for a number of seasons to pass
without & drop of rainfall. so that
crops are entirely consumed by the in
tense heat of the sun that burns the
earth until it cracks INTO great seams.
In the back blocks" or as we would
say, in the interior, there is a most
unbearable pest to be found in the
great number of flies, that make life
a burden. men, women and children
being compelled to wear wells to pro-
tect their eyes from the onslaughts Of
these pesky little critters During the
dry season" the dust that fills the
atmosphere oftentimes obscures the
light of the sun. and not infrequently
it ; impossible to see across a village
street or public highway
Ballarat, a city of perhaps $4,000.
known as the Monumental CITY" be-
cause of the great number of statues
in her streets; Bendigo. with popu-
lation of $4,000: Marlborough with g.
600 souls. are the great mining cen
tiers of this colony. and in the two for
mer cities the stock exchange viii
compare for speculative excitement
with the greater cities of America.
Victoria can easily boast of her good
roads. all of which are under govern
ment supervision and cared for and re-
paired as are the streets in a perfect
" conducted city. Great interest is
being manifested now in the approach
Of the inauguration of the Common
wealth of Australia which win occur
January l. 1901. at which time the now
separate colonies of Queensland. New
South Wales. South Australia. Vic
toria. West Australia and Tasmania
will be federated under one govern
ment- fashioned very much after the
Constitutions OF the United States and
the Dominion of Canada, the result CT
which federation will be inter-colonial
free trade. the establishment of fed
eral parliament that shall have the
power TO make laws for peace. order
and good government OF the common
wealth with respect 10 trade and COM
merce with other countries and among
the states, taxation. oounties. public
credit. naval and military defense.
bankruptcy, insurance, currency. COPY
rights. patents, etc. marriage and d.