. 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. money. Some of the omnibuses remind us of thenew ones in Paris, as they have three horses abreast, and dash along infine style. Hansom and other cabs are numerous, and the fares areabout a third more than in London; this is a great change from thedays of the gold rush, when the most ordinary carriage could not behired for less than £3 a day, and v
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. 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. money. Some of the omnibuses remind us of thenew ones in Paris, as they have three horses abreast, and dash along infine style. Hansom and other cabs are numerous, and the fares areabout a third more than in London; this is a great change from thedays of the gold rush, when the most ordinary carriage could not behired for less than £3 a day, and very often the drivers obtained twice IN THE BOOK ARCADE. 459 or three times that amount. We have been told of a gold-digg3r justdown from the mines of whom £12 was demanded one day for an after-noons drive; he handed the driver a ten-pound note, and told him hewould have to be satisfied with that—and he was. We went into three or four arcades, which form pleasant loungingand shopping places, hke the famous passages of Paris and the arcadesof London. One of them is called the Book Arcade, and is principallydevoted to the sale of books; and if we may judge by the number ofvolumes we saw there, the people of Melbourne are liberal patrons of.