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‘THE. OMINECA HERALD, ‘FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 3005

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OUR COUSIN S:

BY HUGH SAVAGE, DUNCAN, B.C.
’ “With the » Imperial Press Conference in Australia. ;

‘DOWN UN DER’

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I should have told-you that our
party grew in number until we
é After the
Conference it gradually disinte-
From New Zealand we
brought Sir George Fenwick, the
veteran of the Otago Times, Dun-
edin; Mr. W. Dinwiddie, Napier;

reached Melbourne, -

and Messrs, H. Horton and W.
C. Leys, of Auckland,

" werd accompanied by their wives,

Mr. H. Smiles, Rangoon (ne-

phew of the author of ‘Self

Help”), met us at Auckland,

» Sydney saw us gathering to our
‘wings Mr. H; Welham, Penang,

., and the South African quartette,

Messrs, G. A. L. Green and JB,
K, Long, Cane Town; Mr. U.
Sargent, Durban, and Mr. D. M.
Ollemans, Bloemfontein.
Canada’s representation had

_ dwindled to two when some forty
of cs boarded a steamer at Mel-

bourne, crept past many ships

| “tied ub” by the strike, into a

| verged at Port Philip Heads.

long, open inland sea, which con-
A

+ little sailing craft was silhouetted

againat ‘the setting sun -as we
entered Bass Strait, Jueckily. calm.

f We landed, at 7 a.m., at Birnie,
am ‘l'asmania,

| of beauty spots.

This southern ‘Isle of Wight”
is a favored pleasure resort, full
But it is about

4 as big as Scotland, whence, one
| would think, it purloined or eap-

fied its lakes and mountains..

It.

‘carries a million and a half sheep,

They

exports butter, cheese, and—too
many of its own - native-born.
Its jam and apples: and pears
have made itfamous. Its copper
and tin are not to be discounted,
Osmiridium: is the the -latest
mineral find. Tasmania has 213,-
780 people,.of whom Hobart ac-
counts for 53,400 and Launceston
for 28,U00,

© Burnie was- to-have been. the
location of mills to. convert Tas-
manian timbers into pulp, but
this scheme demanded the im-
position of a high duty and a
subsidy which even the Common.
wealth government could see fit
to grant.

- From Burnie the railway circles
{pretty bays, by ashore which re-
calls Digby and Campbelltown
and Dawlish. Thence we struck
inland to watch golden gorse and
the tallest of hawthorn hedges
fleet past. In the middle of the
island is a plateau, rising over
3,000 feet, It was cooler when
we drew near its slopes and
watched the: hills and. snow-cap-
ped mountains far to the west,
It was springtime; there was sun-
shine,. The approach to Hobart,
even in a train, is a colorful un-
fulding of many pages vi abiding
natural beauty. .

Hobart and the Derwent har-
bour, with Mount Wellington
(4, 166° feet) in the /background,
is not unlike a greater ‘North

leard Talet,
through the old part of the town,
up and up,:through the woods, to
the Springs (2,476 feet) to pain'a
beautiful view over’ harbor and
river and ‘island and sea, a view
which: again. revalls British Co-
Tumbia;'' = «

We got glimpses | of this, for
there are showers in spring. But
there are flowers, too, At Sena-
tor Grant’s home “High Peak,’’
we wandered amid daffodils, nar-
cissi, violas, primroges, and poly-
adthus. .We descended by curv-
ing lanes made golden by broom
and some. wattle, where great
hives ot blackberry bush ‘refused
to be exterminated.

‘Hobart wae our headquarters
for three- days,” Apart from re-
ceptions and -dinners, -by the
Governor, the Mayor, and the
Chamber of Commerce, and a
special cathedral service, we were
afforded every opportunity to see
the country, "

If you have’ ever collected
stamps you will realize how much
publicity Tasmania's beauty spots
have lost through merging with
Australia, On one stamp I seem
to remember that stairway of
alternating high and low steps,
carpeted with cream of long, fal-
ing waters— Russell Falls.. I did
not know of the loveliness of
their habitation; drawing rooms
where the ferns are not potted,
but have eight-foot fronds fan-
ning.out from tree stems as much
in height. You come through. a
hallway of silver wattle and black-
wood, while far above soar ‘the
columns of blue Fums and swamp |:

Vaneouver, Viewed across Bare

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.Jnot be unwritten.
‘| Many of our folk set out in sheets

{to driye 150 miles to view this

day through the apple orchards
jof the Huon, across its river to
an English-tike inn at Gypnet
and on to Oyster Cove and so
back by Kingston Beach ang
Brown’s river, past the old shot
tower and along the beautiful
marine drive into Hobart.

provided by the government
brought us to Launceston in time
for lunch. This is the chief port) |:
on the north coast, -a picturesque ‘
and busy place. The Tamar river|[
Into the Ta-|}

{mar rushes the South Esk through
a long ‘Cataract Gorge’’,
haye many such gorges in Canada:
—boiling rapids,
walls, power deyelopment, Riddy

'/such a plifte may be made i is well

|The. Bulkley. Tote

:{are lawns and garden and. ‘band:
!stands’ and refreshment, rooms
(which are neat) : mar

‘|p wide, . dry. path « e

See,

“About y you is the National Park,:
88.500 acres of untoughed. forest, |
lake,” mountain, : where roam at
will kangaroo, platypus, : oppos-
sum, marsupial wolf, and: others
of the native born, both beast
and bird. Ihave referred to tall
-|trees. The actual measurement
of one swamp giim was given as
300 feet. It was seventy-five
‘feet to the first branch. The
diameter, at thirty feet, was
eleven feet,

We started our visit to the park
by a launch trip up the winding
Derwent, on an English April
day of sun and cloud. Not far
from Hobart. is Risdon, where
ithe Electrolytic. Zine Co.'s works
repay inspection. This huge in-
dustry takes a big slice of the!
63,000 h.p, developed by the gov-
ernment hydro-electric depart-
ment, at Waddamana, in the cen-
ter of the island. The Cadbury-|
Fry-Pascall factory, also near at
hand, is another consumer.

Thoughts of zine, if not of
chocolate, vanish as you rest your

‘ornamental plots along this fas-
cinating way, where seats in

nooks and points of vantage hec-
kon one to linger,

We had only one night at
Launceston, but into it was com-
fortably crowded a conversazione
which,. being interpreted, for us
meant a reception, several spee-
ches, an enlightening dissertation
on the platypus, lantern slides of
beatity spots, a dance and supper.

Next morning our kind hosts
drove us into the country to Cora
Lynn and other beauty spots, but
{ went to Longford, where they
were about to hold their sixty-
ninth agricultural show. Too
soon. had to wave farewell ‘to
friends. who had warned us that

‘even world travellers get seasick
on Bass Strait."" We laughed-at
this 140 miles of sea, but~it is
shallow, the Nairana is small. -It
was notcalm. Having eaten, we
entered the strait: then went to
bed,  Supperless!

eyes on ithe view from your inn
at New Norfolk, or swish along
between budding hedges enclos-
ing some of the 1,500 acres of
hops boasted by, the state, Kent

in the gold of gorse, all England
‘in the pink and white of orchard
bloom, the children watching by
old brick houses as from some
Midland lane. “ And, after the
falls, there is that welcome which
is Australia, at the home of the
Schoolbridge family, at Glenora,
with rain trving to spoil our tea
on the lawn.

I feel for those Tasmanians who
would wipe out every vestige of
the old convict days, But, “The|
Term of His Natural Life” can-
Port Arthur, [i
though in ruins, attracts tourists,

of rain at 7,45 a.m. on a Sunday

is in the stringed poles, Scotland |].

(D. Glennie

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PRINCE RUPERT, B.C:

old penal settlement, I, being of
lesser clay, drover later in the

An early start on a special train

inks it to the sea.

We
narrow, rock

ooking bridges—but this one is
n the city itself. -How beautiful

FORD
CARS

Will arrive April First.
_ Be sure to see them before
you buy any other
car.

FULL STOCK OF PARTS
ALWAYS ON HAND

WS
HENRY

| SMITHERS, B.C.

illustrated i in Launceston, .
here the canyon. widens there

Twas, there

hat we figured in a:wivic récep:

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ailings.- The top ‘rail. was hollow, '|®"

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faucets * ‘ate “intervale, ‘

t is,’ in: fact, a .waterpipe with |.
to Water

All trains met, . fied

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8 EE ‘OFehaed, Owner .

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“The headquarters for

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lmile b¥ the,side of. ‘the torrent on jfnd rhis grand hotel to stop at,

live or i F
ddle horses provided. ; ery wo ime