A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD.
fast steamers sailing on regular schedules to islands
that are but names to most dwellers in the northern
hemisphere. In the pages devoted to New Zealand
something has been said concerning the facilities for
travel to Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, and the more easterly
islands of the South Pacific. From the Australian
ports another service is maintained to New Caledonia,
the French colony of the West Pacific, the New
Hebrides, Norfolk Island, and the Fiji Islands. These
steamers sail in the service either of the Australasian
United Steam Navigation Company or the Messageries
Maritimes from Sydney, vessels passing each way
every two weeks. Noumea, the capital of New Gale-
donia, is a very pleasant city, its French atmosphere
making it altogether different from any other of the
Pacific islands. It possesses a fine harbor, stone
wharves, wide streets with shade trees, excellent public
buildings, and a botanical garden. New Caledonia is
a penal colony of France and an excellent convict
band of forty preformers furnishes music in the public
square. The town is well lighted, provided with good
hotels, and the drives in the vicinity are exceedingly
interesting. The chief industries are the mining of
chrome and nickel and the raising of coffee. Steamers
leave Noumea for a circuit of the island every week.
They are new and comfortable, lighted by electricity,
and the service is entirely satisfactory. The trip around
the island consumes eight days, every moment of the
time offering fresh views of novel scenery. The entire
voyage is inside the reef, in smooth water, and the
Set in 2-pOint Mission.
Opened with one-point leads,.

BARNHART BROS. & SPINDLER'S                    SUPERIOR COPPER-MIXED TYPE

BARNHART BROS. & SPINDLER'S

SUPERIOR COPPER-MIXED TYPE