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Show AUSTRALIAN PARTY. A party of distinguished citizens of Australia reached thin city yesterday i.ti route to Europe. The company consists of W. E. Winter, landed; proprietor and stock raiser of Stan-1 hope, Victoria, with his family; A. C. Todd, impectcr general of public works, Jand Mr. Langc, inspector of water supply, Victoria ; W. W. Couehe, Vice President of the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce ; Mr. Horsefall, woolbroker; J. and S. Gordon, landed 1 proprietors and stock raisers; Wm. Harker, civil engineer, of Melbourne ; j C. C. McDonald, lauded proprietor j and stock raiser, Xew South Wales ; H. Blundel!, editor Wellington Krcniwj I'o.il, and Jno. Watson, merchant, Xew Zealand; and Kobt. Keid, district judge, Ceylon. The party is chaperoned from Han (Francisco to New York by A. W. Hah, agent of the Australasian and American Steamship line, which conveyed them from Melbourne to San Francisco on the company's steamer Tartar. Theso distinguished gen- tlemen are all representative men of the respective colonics where j they reside, and they visit ; this and other countries, lor the puf-' puf-' pose of securing valuable information concerning the arts, sciences, new inventions in-ventions and manufactures, as well as all matteis of interest to their fellow fel-low citizens af luome, They visit Utah to see for themselves what has been done by a working colony, in (.be various industries required for I the support of a community. We regret that such inauspicious j weather should have greeted them on : their arrival. In .pite of snow and sleet, however, they occupied the lime in sigl)t-8epjng and in convepsaT tion with citizens concerning our local laflairs. Yesterday afternoon they called upon President Brigham Young, auu Crycii a prolonged aud 1 pleasant interview. They made their i headquarters 4 the Tuwnsond House, 'and depart for the cast this morning This party is by no means the last j which is likely to visit us this season from Australia. It is probable that the travel from that remote section now so closely connected with this country by the steamship line alluded to, will hereafter be largely increased. The line is an entirely new one, and h:vi the contract for carrying all the , mails froip the Austraftas, Xew Zealand Zea-land and the Sandwich Islands to the United States and Great Britain. Each , steamer carries an average of ten tons of mail matter each trip. The present pres-ent vessels of the company have not !he requisite passonger capacity toj supply 'the demand upon them.' To remedy this deficiency, however, tho company aro now building four steamers of 3,000 tons burthen each, which wil ho put on the lino thU Fall. These steamers are being built on the Clydo, and when finished are warranted to have a speed of fourteen knots per hour which will enable them to make tho trip from Sidney to San Francisco iu twenty-five days. H is 'calculated that the Koyal mails carried by this line will bo delivered in London in forty-two days from Sidney, being pleyen days less time than they can he carried by any other line. Mr. Thomas Higginbotham, Inspector In-spector General of railroads ol Victoria, Vic-toria, accompanied the party as far as Saa Francisco, but stopped in Cali- fbruia p inspect fdio raj'roads of that , State. He may be expected here in a few days, and will visit the E-istern ' States and Europe to inspect the railroad systonis of the various countries, coun-tries, with a view to employing the information thus acquired for the benefit of his own country on his re turn. It is a pleasure to meet intelligent! and representative citizens of. the dts- Uwt colonies of the Pacific, and our only regret is that their visit could not have been prolonged to such an extent ex-tent that more complete information could have been afbrded them as to Utah's material prosperity then is possible in a single day. Wo wish them a pleasant journey, and hope they they will drop down on us again on their return, so that our citizens generally may be privileged to meet and greet them. ! |