PROPOSED PAGEANT AT HOBART.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 70

PROPOSED PAGEANT AT HOBART.

The Tasmanian Tourist Association is putting forth strenuous efforts to entice the holiday-makers of Australia to Hobarfc and d'vert the stream of tourists which has, during the past few years, flowed in the direction of New Zealand. Ir supplying details of the attractions arranged, the ■ secretary becomes quite poetical, as, for | e>ample: — "Yes, Hobart had been dis- | covered bj conmoiseurs of travel lon-g sinceri Hobart, Venice o*- these sunny southern ! kinds, the city whose luxurious mansions leat upon the lipt of limpid bay 3, and where the air is 'lesvy in the spring with scent of jessanrne and hawthorn, white and j red. Where towers above the dwellings of the oitizers the snowy peak of 2k ft. Wellington., and away in the dim distance , the lines of seascape soften into indistinctness, and a lotus-eating dream of loveliness overcome*, one's being and gives the w;Jking tioket te all worries. Troubles of business, debt, and of physical disorders flee in shoals before the nectar to be imbibed in that salubrious clime, and the splendoui of the scenic wonders is as a ' chapter stolen from some heavenly tome, ' brooding inspiratioi as the springtime j breedeth love. "The memories of that series of glimpses ! into glorylantd will ever beckon one to re- j visit those scenes again. " Amonc, the lone list o. attractions which are to shake £»ie old city up, such as it has never been roused before, are interstate yachting, bowling, rifle shooting, lacrosse, rowing and tennis turnaments. But these are only eonu of the sporting events in which, by the bye, special carnival race i meetings will be a feature. A ' Battle of j Flowers,' on a gorgeous scale, and an i historic pageant, emblematic of Tasmania's life from Tts discovery to the present day, I will be attractions of a more unique cha.rac- j tsr, the latter promising to prove an edu- j cational treat ac well as an histrionic tri- j umph. Those who care not for the Con- | tiftsntal gaiety of the carnival will have , ">ppoTtCDities galore to visit the rushing streams of snow waters, and cast an allur-_ ing fly for trout and salmon, skim the waters of the noble River Derwent in the many craft that upon it ride at anchor, or mount the heights of noble ranges and survey a panorama so impressive that it might move a Nero from a course of unrighteousness. ' '