| Show FOB mr and mrs L L C pond writs write from I 1 Au australla stalla Acs L SOME VERY interesting SIGHTS A land lana of flowers and Sun sunshine alline where froit and snow ara never known the following 0 letter was rec received eivid by bishop kimball from froin his son inlaw in law L C pond who left utah soule some time amo ago 0 in company with liis his bride for a mission in tasmania tho bi bichop hop has kindly allowed tile THE to use the letter which was written in ill tile the house nt at sydney australia it says bays we arrived here december 1893 ard and expect to leave at once for hobart obart II our voyage 0 was a most delightful 0 one as there were ivere no storms to speak of except ome bome thunder and lightening c 0 one night 0 the month consumed in the trip has see tied to be the shortest of my life I 1 feared it would be otherwise when we began the journey today is sunday just jum meeting time in the morning the bells tire arc ch chiming intino and making a great confusion fusi 0 n they play sacred tunes t then he n P strike iri ke a and play very fa fast S t making quite ti a variety this is an e city having a beautiful harbor second to nova scota in beauty and tile the second in sise ic when we came in it was lit up with hundreds of lights presenting a very beautiful s ight we saw the flam flag 0 station for miles before we apa reached ched here we ascended the great clock tower thursday from which we could seethe see the entire colony this great clock chimes every fifteen minutes it is built on the islands winding along the coast which extends for miles around in beautiful curves the houses among the green trees and the hundreds of ships and jachts sailing around dotting the water yesterday we wen went t down to the harbor ind saw the men of war march into the boat arid and hen c sail a off on playing 11 a bund band of music we then went to the gardens which are beautiful with flowers trees birds and ami statuary from to the art gal W fenta remained ined viewing the beautiful sculpture views of all kinds and while the men folks folk went to the bathing resort arid and took a bath there was a place for city ladies but she being the only one did not care to go we also saw the great reat public library librara and numerous other places of noti note we went to the town hall to a recital and heard the grandest organ in the world it is an immense organ covering the entire end of that large building in 0 the A organist a frenchman played it most exquisitely exquisite ly will send tile program in ave mariahe Mari ehe represented a tenor voice then the whole ode opera odea a joined in and still YO 1 would hear the lead irad tenor lenor and at the same time he played the accompaniment pani ment the voices voices sounded like they came from heaven not being able to see any singers lie he made the organ sound that w wy way y there were several selections like that then lie he played pieces nieces showing t the he volume of tile the oi liean gan was ivas great I 1 assure you we visited the tie great st andrews church next to it and the post office an all immense building and massive you vol would not think that such a bu building ild could be utilized for that purpose any one could walk continually and never tire odthe of the sights eights the stores are decorated most elaborately some articles are very cheap and some very high to show how high we wanted some lose hose and went into a store where they do not net carry them under and they reach then there are stores where everything is cheap bro alfred bridges an old friend of yours met us here and i is a kindly taking us around to see the sights eights now I 1 must tell you something 0 about auckland novi new zealand it ia is built on hills and is green ereen and has many beautiful hewers flowers and large housed but not lot 86 ruay massive sive as here bere every house here seems so solid and massive the business housa there spend much in decorating and arranging 0 their windows we visited the A art rt gallery and great library there was one caso case of books book s given by one man worth millions ancient books that many libraries burld like to obtain brothers stewart and ga gardner r I 1 ne met inet us at th the 0 leip eglip there bout about 1 7 i in the morning za N we I 1 e also met elder II ammond at tile board ing i ng house we enjoyed ourselves immensely imm ensly while there we remained there twelve hours we vii are in mid summer now enjoying strawberries new potatoes and in fact everything of th t kind is in season I 1 there is no doubt an immense ense lot of snow at home now sleighing coasting and skating we will see bothi nothing n of that kind until we return as it never snows nor freezes here this is an exceedingly hot country but fortunately wo we have had cool weather most moat of the time today a cool breeze comes in at tile the window I 1 wish I 1 could send you some of the beautiful flowers which are growing here and blooming on every every hand lland I 1 shall tell something moro more of this country when I 1 write again again 6 on sunday afternoon meetings az of every denomination are held hero here political religious 4 temperance and the salvation army it caused great confusion and contention among among the ministers MR 29 and mus L C POND |
