MELBOURNE BY AN HONOLULIAN.

Kumara Times, Issue 569, 24 July 1878, Page 2

MELBOURNE BY AN HONOLU—LIAN.

The correspondent of a Honolulu paper sends his impressions of Melbourne as follows : —“ On every street comer is a petiuon Us long as a fishingrod calling out like corn doctors for signatures to a memorial addressed to Her Most Gracious Majesty, to overthrow and suppress their own Government. Her Majesty turns a deaf ear to their supplications, and they vent their rage in smashing newspaper offices, knocking out windows, hooting and brawling about over the citv in mobs of boot-blacks and hack-drivers, with sticks, clubs and stones, making, divers threats against the Ministry. Oar Colonial cousins are not very familial* with American geography. A newspaper here had Chicago located down on the Gulf of Mexico, and got Texas mixed up with the frontier of Canada, A druggist of igspectable standing asked mw where were the Sandwich Islands, He * wanted to know if there were any white people living there.’ He * Wanted to know’ if they ate people there. Ihe European cable is disconnected about nine clays one often., We get most of our news from California. The Australians are a great sporting people. The papers here devote more space to a chicken fight or a horse race or cricket match than to the TurkisbEussian war. A raC”V and a smart hoilnd or good setter will command better prices than a good preacher, and about as much reverence.”