The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-08
FOR
FEDERATION
Sydney Prepares a Big
Pageant.
A GALA NEW YEAR DAY
South Sea Notes including Some.
thing About Changes in the
Samoan Islands.

i - Z =
| thing About Changes in the
Samoan Islands.
/ ming to simmer with enthusiasm. The
|bubbling point is timed for January 1.
! The people generally are beginning to
feel and show the influence of the time,
IDLY bound together as one nation. In
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
Ilcrely haunt out in the Never Never,
(which is believed to be somewhere be-
hind the sun, and has grunted and
lsweated over labor for the last time
this century. He is making a beeline
flor Sydney, "Om to the Common
fwealth.'' The princely squatter mas
| left his lovely home in the bush and is
now luxuriously quartered in fashion
able apartments in the capital, and so
| it is with thousands Of representatives
Eof sthe various social stages between
i these two types. The capital is being
Ioverrun with an invasion of sightseers.
1t is not only in New South Wales that
Ipeople are training and steaming and
feven bicycling and motoring into sgd
lney. There are troops of travellers
,bound for "the Commonwealth" MAX
ing for the great trysting place from
the uttermost ends of the continent.
Between three quarters and a million
people are expected to witness the cere-
monies in the first week in January.
Extraordinary prices are already being
lasked and paid for accommodation.
PREPARING THE CITY.
In the city there is a great nete of
preparation everywhere Through
lmiles of streets which the procession is
Ito go through on it's way to the Cen
ltennial park, thousands of poles (paint-
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
lcost of two of them, the Citizens and
the Victorians' running into four fig
,ures. America Twill greet the new ma
tion'' with a magnificent arch and Ger
lmany 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 'The Lady of The
, Shows will be represented by an en-
biematical car. All that Sydney art can
do is being devoted to the decoration
3 of these arches. Rising high in the Do
main and parks are stands for the cleo
tric light illuminations AS, apart from
the festooning of the line of march by
3 sInyriads of flags and strings of flowers
8 the citizens will decorate their build
3 ings also, the imagination can barely
g picture what a gorgeous blaze of color
8 there will be.
9 6ne HIGH-PRICED SEATS.
g All along the five miles of the route
g vast stands are being erected. and tbs
2lmodest prices of from e. to Ell los arr
9 being asked for seats. Chairs on pri
Z vate balconies are going at from TO-
Z to 15s apiece. Housetops and chimney
z pots are not ye in the market. 1t il
some consolation to the wight who pay
a big price for peep at the paGean
and takes the risk of being toppled owe
that the most rigid inspection of al
balconies and awnings has been au
thorized; but still excited populaces ar
not bound by bylaws.
A FEDERAL FIZZLE.
Governments, like individuals. pro
d ,crastinate and through the dilatorines
lof the New South Wales authorize
There is a prospect Of federation bein
Iconsummated with a gigantic f1zzle. A
1.-THE earliest the G2,500 worth of fire
works ordered from England canno
sssseeesssess
If che ia game was not expected by tn
\ raiders, nor was it totally une4pecte
=. by the deputy sheriff.
= The first words of the deputy sheri1
le were something to the effct that CraW
10 ford took poor way to show his graf
itude to him for what he had don
q for him in the past. A memorandum
g of the players was taken, and the DEF
ysIuty sheriff proceeded to Withdraw
e when Crawford stopped him and mao
an attempt to explain. The deput
L sheriff told him that it was not nee
Al essary.
l. When Judge Wilcox heard of Craw
lie ford's completely in the running {
Is the gambling games, he said:
- 1T was just snort time ago tne
is I signed a petition which Crawford wa
10 circulating for the post of interprete
ID to the Internal Revenue DeparrmeT
while it was registering the Chimes
lie Under the circumstances l am yer
l. much inclined to write the collecte
~ letter telling him that I hay
s. thought better of it. I don't want
m said that I am fostering and protectin
lie any one who can be found managing
m gambling game"
Of Deputy Sheriff ChiIlingworth e,