A PRELIMINAfiY CARTER. 3 



sailed for Sydney. Strange to say, a horse called The 

 Harvester won the last Derby I saw at FlemingtoD, 

 Melbourne, last November (] 894) . 



It was on a sudden impulse I made up my mind 

 to go out to Australia. What false notions I had 

 about the Colonies were quickly discovered on arrival 

 there. Adelaide gave the first impression of the 

 Colonies, and it was a surprise. Big cities I had not 

 expected to find ; but here was Adelaide, not the 

 most important, a large town. 



It struck me as curious, however, in returning 

 from tho city to the pier late at night, that a gentle- 

 man, homeward bound from the theatre or an 

 evening party, should have his upper half clothed 

 in the regulation ^^ waiter's outfit," while his lower 

 extremities were encased in breeches and top- 

 boots. 



Such trifling aaomalies as this are soon over- 

 come. It is not the clothes that make the man in 

 Australia. 



A first glimpse of Melbourne shows the traveller, 

 at a glance, that there are big cities here. It is a 

 charming sight to enter Port Phillip Heads and sail 

 up the fine bay. Melbourne, however, is at a great 

 disadvantage, through being so far away from deep- 

 water anchorage. It is the wonderful facilities of 

 Sydney harbour for commercial purposes that must 

 filways make it the port of Australia. 



