PRINCE EDWARD AND PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES. A Night and Day in the Bush.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 103, 23 May 1885, Page 5

PRINCE EDWARD AND PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES. A Night and Day in the Bush.

Wh rode on to Marblup, where we arrived about 4 p.m., thirty miles from Albany, at Mr Young's farmhouse and clearing. The mantelpieces, the tables, and all the furniture, are made of mahogany, or the darker jar rah wood. The broad largo inglenook, with seats on either sido, looks uncommonly snug with the iron dogs for the legs, a pile of which last are stacked in the verandah outside, so as to bo conveniently handy for throwing on the fire all night through. Mr and Mrs Young, their two sons and two daughters, gave us a hearty welcome, and after taking a draught ot warm fresh milk (of which there seem? an inexhaustible supply all over the place), we walk up to ♦•ho small shanty in which wo are to stay. This consists of two rooms completely empty and with bare floors ; each, however, has a largo open firoplace and plenty of jarrah wood stacked for us during tho night. Two grand wood fires are already burning bright and dry, such a contrast to what we have had for the last few weeks on board ship. A. small two-whoeled cart that has brought our mattresses and rugs, and what few things wo wanted for the night, has arrived before us, and we proceed at once to make our toilet in the open air, for there is plenty of fresh water in the tank outside, and a small wooden trough does duty by turns for each of the party. Bevis, a largo kangaroo dog, a sort of huge, brown Scotch greyhound, looks on as we make ourselves ready for Mrs Young's toa suppor, for which we return to tho farmhouse, and there ovoryono was very hearty and jolly, and did amplo justice to tho fowls, minced kangaroo, the jam, cream, sconca, and no end of beautiful fresh milk and butter, sucha3 we have not tasted since we had left England (for there is none, or very little, of either of these two last at the Cape or South America). The day has been cloudy, but there has been no rain, though everyone says there is every sign of it being wet and windy to-morrow, one of which is that the hills in the distance are intensely blue. Aftor tea found our way u p across the paddock to our night- quarters, and there we slept as soundly as possible (nine in the two rooms) with the windows open and the fires burning. There are two pails of frosh milk, which some drink neat and others prefer to take mixed with a little whioky before turning in. Some fall asleep at once, others not so soon, the American doctor's cheery ringing laugh sounding long on the quiet night air, as he and the commander tell alternately the most astounding yarns, each with a denouement more startling than the last. In the silent pauses between the tales, while thay are collecting their wits, we can hear the croaking of the frogs away in the distance on the borders of the marsh, and with these two sounds alternately ringing in our ears we fell asleep.— "H. M.S. Bacchante at the Antipodes," by Prince Edward and Prince George of Wales, in the English Illustrated Magazine .___ ___

It is gravely prophesied, on the authority of the stars, that the Prince of Wales will lose his life through some revolutionary movement off the 20th of January, 1891. A new symphony, by Sgambati, has been performed in the hall of the German Embos wat Rome. The scherzo is said to have given the greatest satisfaction of the four movements. A leading critic writes of it : " Sgambati also in this symphony upholds the flag of instrumental music in Italy. While maintaining a continuous flow ol melody, he is never vulgar, and hia orchestration displays rare grecieion."