LIFE IN MELBOURNE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1764, 11 February 1888, Page 3

LIFE IN MELBOURNE.

Tbe following notes o! various phases O f Vlelhourn..* life are culled from a series of letters contributed to he " Waimate TjmKs "by Vlr VI W Bta k.

THE >SW AUGLIOAN BISHOP. Dc Gnu, th Bib p ■ f i/l boufue, io an Appropriate success** V> Bishops Moo. ti'.<uau and Party, m the f*ot tt»a he, Ike it»om, it Low Ou'ob. Be does uot tppove of caodlon, noh aUars, ersiea, n o;ied liturgies tie has not tha talented, hoijvh mono onoas eloquence— the popoM fiaeuoj— of tbe present Bishop of Manch atyr, late of Alulbourne } bat he <i #«;<ghty and evidently nine te In his profession. Lik <Dr Moorhens* he has a p atu farmeMike physiqie. BLATANT INFIDELITT Joseph hyujus, of ait Hi of Soienoe — alias .Nogt<ec Tueatre. alias Meiboa d vi..k — Ib the BPc.h infidel vi ibe n i« mispbere. 1 1 arr«nt blasphemy, coolly, I.pp*utiy delivered, wiih a suuiie, Braduugh, Walker, Bright, Seiby, and o>. otnout hold a peuny o»n I c to him S tnea openly, cool y. eimpy dafids the Creator. He laughs at him, mo»ka him, mi t«l os him. At 11 a.m. every Sunday iv the Hall of Soienoe, there it a secular eutertal; meut. Evary Sunday ni»{ht there v a coucett ano a leotore Id which Christianity isoaiied «• rotten," " putrid," " ocibkiQg "- io which Ghmt it oatled '■ a fe.iow," "a buinoug," "a fraud,' "a ttumblerigger," " a swindle," " * rogue," and ail this produce! load laughter and applause from a densely crowded audience, who pay a shilling or sixpence.

In proportit n iv population Melbonme may or ' may not be less vicious than Dv jIId, Glasgow, London, Paris, KdJnbugb, or JSew ¥»>rk. I oandirily say I have not gone into the question of comparative population. I know tbia : Taat iv prop ruun to its own population, Melbourne, can bo*6t, if Melbourne desires bo to boast, of an immense number of women, more or less booklearned, more or leas musical, more or leBS pretty, who earn their living by prostitotiun, dieguiaed, eeini-disguised, or not disguised at all Every good mau, every good woman, m Melbourne have thro.- humble people dinging to their Bkirts, ouuid y— a professional crimiaJ, a paupor, ana a prostitute. MKLBOUBNE SHOPKEEPERS Advertising, printing, brazea posh is the great oharaoteriscio of Melbourne. When F*y and Gibaoo, of Smith street, Ooiiingwood-, reoeoily op. nod their great anneal sale called "Winter Fair," the atreet was crammed with women— old, yoaog, rich, poor — m front of the large chop, waiting fur the opeuiog of the a/arming bargains. Tae plaoard announce ing "Great salea" "Special sacrifice," ate dohu m euoun us a zia, and m must ariis-ic ooJora. Pioturea of mun aud women, lift>:a-, adoru or di« figure the wall?, and the elactrio light sends fortn iv mrotg beams from the rioh!v-dres»ed •ti<<p windows. The Melbourne shop* keeper proferb show aud seiaition tj dtgi i-y. He will at ai y Mine disfigure hla oa aide walla aud windows m order to bring m the public, lit belli- ves m printing ink, m the paluter'a broab, and m gaudy color?. With a few ax oeptloDß, t;v«ry Melbourne sr opk*eper ia a show nan, who eobailtuiiJ ha^o colored pcoiere for the lung* of the ahuwmau ria».h shopkeeper ories »1 >ud, ' I am the beat, cume iv, come m '" and tiu>h to nay, the ahepke^per wio annually aavortises moat gets the moat trade

KWECIS Or TUB PKOIEOTIVE POLIOr, The uiiuuUo>u ing er», fettered by Protection and Trades. Uuion*, has passed Its it jtial atttge and for quod or for «vii, Prolecioo a one of iho great f&otora m the hfe of Victorian men and w men, I have B!>M the c .operaiixP aud competi* tiua are rampant i<> ftlelbonrnM. T >is is »iuf. Men will uot wonder &t tljo tx-st-ance of co o^erut 0(i, beottuoe Co-opera<ioxi and Protection are almost »y onymoua terms, bat that oouipetutoo and protection s)oiid 00-eiiet seoms 6t>aucer. The woofer will cease w en w? ooi.alder that ttitlz ns f>om New Z'ulaod, South Aastraiia. Q teeaelaud, aDd South Wales have beeu attracted from their Frtjetrnde homes i y the high WKgfg raliug m Proteoi.itniet V otor.a, and thus In PruteotjUriiat Viotria the pqvjt ore comparatively low to the ariizi , and c moiodities are a most quite a- cheap m Protectionist Melboatne «s in Fr<e rade Sydney. . , Whoev. r loaea or gains by the prohibitive tariff, the boys and girls must gain, &cd while. . . " tbe conenmer m the long ran, gets goods as cheap a» 80-callcd Froetrade would make them, he also, to boot, geta ointloyi^eut for his rluiog genorition. Proteciion i» not a misnomer. — A stiff tariff really does protcot all ciuasee — producers, corißamern, and the boys and giria. It ia all & v»ot miatake, to oon elude that a strong tariff protecia only the mnch«tiicai m*n. Ultimately the omeumer is more advantaged than it the producer. And lot it naver be forgotten that, although cor^umera are not always produoara- every producer is a consumer, and, doub le~«. » ia-j >nty of both oonsnmers and piodnosrs are married and have f -mites who, iv order to avoid lftrrikinlsm, most embrace a meohaotcal ocoopation. Protection has coverei Vio toiU «ith factories, and rendered the Oolonieta almost Independent of. English markets Protect! n h*a made a lar<<e healtby family m Victoria a deoidud ad vantage to a tuau w<b low wegee, A.nd yet evorythins;, rent Is wonderful y ohe^p m the ch^f town of Vtotoria. In faot, Pr iteotli n i F<-e><trade m dirgutsp, whereat F/» etraJe beu^fita forel. h o >u< - tries at the expense of oar own. Reel procity would be a fiir system. Let Ration A give to Nation Bvih-t A can, and whatß cannot produce— and <*'« vtrsa. Io the abseooe of reoiprooltv, a atiif tanfi it far before what is o*lled Vreetrada.