CHINESE WEATHER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 255, 28 October 1871, Page 4

CHINESE WEATHER.

A letter from a well known member of a Christy Minstrel Company has been received in Melbourne, from which the following is an extract : —

" Hong Kong, June 11.

"Thanks for your kind remembrances. All our friends may be assured that a shower of blessings will fall with dewy softDess on their deeoted craniums, and prayers be raised on their behalf by us •wanderers in this great and decidedly warm country, for warm it is— l may say it pertains to 'red hot' — and a young fellow is very often seized with a hankering after ice : cream, and a little cooler if he can get it. You have to eat ice-cream here as soon as made ; if you don't, they . just, throw in a bucket of brandy, and it immediately becomes hot punch, which you have to drink in the shade, to prevent it becoming so hot as to scald one. Make all the allowance you please for the . last remark : it may be prejudiced. It is now the rainy season. In fact, I never knew it anything else — heat or rain. It's a beautiful climate ! (This is sarcasm, ala A. Ward.) I have travelled over a great portion of Australia, all over California and the webfoot country, and, as my luck is, always in the rainy season. I believe I was born in a shower— l am told it was in April month. But, bless you, it does not rain here — it just lets go all holds, and tumbles down. It has just started a minute ago, and if it had been raining the last 24 hours it could not possibly do better. I beg pardon, it has just stopped, and the sun is shining again. I beg to be excused, it is now raining in torrents. No use, I can't keep up with it, 'I'm not equal to the situation.' Well, the Fakirs, as some friendly, unprejudiced, lunch-wrestling correspondent terms us, are doing very well indeed. Nellie Hosmer and her husband (W. E. Rogers), Joseph Small, Alfred Singer, and Charley Khoades, opened here under the title of the Eureka Variety Troupe, at the Lusitano Theatre, on June 3. They gave the audience 1 : songs, 'duets, b'aDjo solos, and a farce ; '.and don't they seem to like it.' , They pay, Bs. for the balcony seats, 4»> '«&»?. ithe parquette, and two guineas for a private boi;= and What's more, they keep ©n doing it."