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CHAMPIDN -:JBATR.f ^mM^
-. (From our own Cj^a5p^jMfe^^^v'_i ? -
Tbe' end of another month, and jffie ptBa| --f fajiuill
to tbe city bids me take my pen in iiandT to ^1,^
anything here of importance~-to abow tbe||ir)BR$B«f
the - mazy labryinth. of life, unlike the one Qaeen,
Eleanor, discovered to find the bower of fair fipai
uaond at Woodstock. But events do not occur to
give me a chance of a recital; occurrences even J3o
not take place to record ; so I must fein «&r to the
casual changes in and around bs here in oar erey*
day life at Geraldton. We are even wnoi^nfAeriiuf f
not in the usual acceptance of the word.' but visaons
of the Mart near to Basinghall Street* in the littte
village yclept London, hourly appear in our wakefni
moments of each coming .day. . Coats andinmBers,
waistcoats and other comforts, for more nmjhen.
climes, arc here in embryo.' The comifierixal food
of the West of England, grown on our endnyyland^r
is coming into Geraldton daily, and as-'jodt' Motfcafe
Country gained her first wealth from Jbcjr ,wttfl— $$£-
noted to the present day ' by her I-or*l C^ianceUpr;
taking his seat on the ' Woolsack,' as^luVeeaVJift,
called — so we prove ourselves worthy of onr progeni
tors by growing perhaps some of €he finest ever im
ported on the shores of our Mother Country. Wool
and grain, and metal ore — sinewy muscle— perse-
verance — strength — roads and bridges — land clearinjr
— care-taking and individual and concentrated perse
verance — and who shall beat Western Australia's
district ot Victoria ! The elements may, over whieb.
we have no control; but a more stirring district, from'
the Miirchinson to the Irwin, from the Mines to the
Greeuough Flats, does not exist, and if success- does /
not crown the efforts of all the settiera herein, it im&t
be that fickie old jade Fortune. This very day tvo,-
men were not to be hired in this town, andaccommo
datiou was not to be obtained for a party of men who.
came up ior a useful public work, now commenced. *
This district cannot fail to thrive, if We'are He*e^T J
with tbe ordinary winter seasons of rain. Let any *
uninterested person visit our' mines and our corn- -
growing districts on the Greeuoagh and Irwin, and '?'
any unbiassed opinion most declare our districtiih '^
commercial language, ' first-rate.' ' .?? ?-- .- ~. . .. ? .' : _
See the wool and metal daily streaming into Hie ?
town — find a man, willing to work, idle in our streets -
— try aud discover a pauper wanting food — look, for
a good working man out of employ — point me out
but one mendicant, and 1*11 bow to the judgment
of anyone who may doubt the truth of what I assert, ',
but not till then. . .
We see no ' Government-stroke' with .the depot
men here ; they appear to work manfully, and even *
cheerfully, and as a district of a convict colony, I can
but look on it with pleasurable surprise, when I vieW
the work tbat is accomplished, and the flourishing
state of every part within its bounds. ' Compari
sons,' they say, ' are odions,' but, with God's blessing
and a wise administration, oar 'Victoria must be one
ot the most thriving districts of Western Australia.
But you will cut me short if I essay to trespass -
further on jour space, unless I refer to local sews.
The extension of tbe jetty has now commenced,
and appears to be carried on vigorously, 'She 3Se»
Isin has shipped upwards of 100 tons of ore, and the
Palestine is loading with wool for England. We
lose tbe Resident Magistrate for a time, and tbe Ber.
Mr. Clay, by the tormer vessel. ?
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