. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. tres of the Otago gold-fields, which w^e have already mentioned, and has had the usual ups anddowns of mining life. The Otago mines cover a wide extent of coun-try, and as much of the region in which they lie is agricultural, living ischeaper here than in most other mining regions. A good many Chinese are engaged in mining in the New Zealandgold-f


. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. tres of the Otago gold-fields, which w^e have already mentioned, and has had the usual ups anddowns of mining life. The Otago mines cover a wide extent of coun-try, and as much of the region in which they lie is agricultural, living ischeaper here than in most other mining regions. A good many Chinese are engaged in mining in the New Zealandgold-fields, and we were told that in one place—Orepuki—there was amining population of four hundred Chinese that subscribed £100 ($500)towards building a Presbyterian church, the total cost being less thana thousand dollars. And yet I presume there are white men in Ore-puki who would call one of their Mongolian neighbors a heathen Chi-nee ! Near Dunedin and other places, as well as in the neighborhoodof most of the Australian cities, the market-gardening is largely man-aged by the Chinese. They seem to have almost a monopoly of thisbusiness, and we were told that no European could successfully competewith them when they went at it in ON THE SHORE OF THE LAKE. ON THE SEA AGAIN. 293 CHAPTEE XIII. FROM NEW ZEALAND TO AUSTRALIA.—ARRIVAL AT SYDNEY.—HOW THE CITYWAS FOUNDED.—ITS APPEARANCE TO-DAY.—THE PRINCIPAL STREETS, PARKS,AND SUBURBS.—PUBLIC SYDNEY DUCKS.—THE TRANS-PORTATION SYSTEM—HOW AUSTRALIA WAS COLONIZED.—LIFE AND TREAT-MENT OF CONVICTS IN AUSTRALIA.—THE END OF TRANSPORTATION.—POPULARERRORS OF INVOLUNTARY EMIGRANTS.—THE PAPER COMPASS.—TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN.—EMANCIPISTS AND THEIR STATUS.—SYDNEY HARBOR.—STEAMLINES TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.—CIRCULAR QUAY.—DRY-DOCKS.—EX-CURSIONS TO PARAMATTA AND BOTANY BAY.—HOSPITALITIES OF SYDNEY. STEAMERS of the Union Steamship Company run weekly betweenthe principal ports of Ke


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