. 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. THK ARTII,LERT ROCKS, NEAR LORNE, ON THE COAST OF VICTORIA. Before the mail closed for America* Frank and Fred busied them-selves with a large number of papers, which they sent to friends athome. They included the Age and the A></i(s, dailies which remindedthem of The London Times or Daily JVews, The Illustrated AustralianKews and The Illust
. 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. THK ARTII,LERT ROCKS, NEAR LORNE, ON THE COAST OF VICTORIA. Before the mail closed for America* Frank and Fred busied them-selves with a large number of papers, which they sent to friends athome. They included the Age and the A></i(s, dailies which remindedthem of The London Times or Daily JVews, The Illustrated AustralianKews and The Illustrated Sleteher, pictorials making their appearancemonthly, a dozen or more weekly and monthly papers, some of them ofBrobdingnagian proportions, and representing all shades of religious, 472 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. social, and political feeling, and a quarterly called The Imperial a letter to his mother Frank said they had visited the office of TheMelhourne Age at the invitation of one of its proprietors, and had. ?WAITING TO SEE THE EDITOR. come away with the belief that few people in the northern hemispherehad a just appreciation of the journalistic skill and enterprise of theantipodes. The weekly edition of the Age is called the Leader^ said Frank, inhis letter, and there isnt a daily paper in the United States that has aweekly edition to rival it in size, quantity, and variety of matter; andthe same may be said of the Australasian^ which is the weekly edition ofthe Argus. The Leader for this week, of which I send you a copy, con-tains forty-eight pages, and they tell me this is the regulation pages are the size of those of Harpers Weekly, and are filled Avithwhatever is considered of greatest interest to their readers in the coun-try districts. It is evident, continued Frank, that there are many waifs andstrays in the population of Australia, if we are to judge by the advertis-ing columns of the newspapers. All the leading dailies have adver-
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