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The people at the Rose Hill horse races and
in fact all the people we have seen at the various other
places we have been in Sydney appear very much like the
New Zealanders, raw, slovenly and unpolished. They
appear to have the saving grace of tenderness and although
undoubtedly unintelligent and unphilosophic, and pretty
sporty and mercenary, are rather kind and jolly. They
are not a bad bunch to get along with. There are no
real places of aesthetic entertainment in Sydney, for
although they have a fine art museum it is only visible
by day, and the descent of evening finds the movies and
a few frothy dramas the only defense against utter boredom.
Sunday, August 21st. (Sydney). Turned out
to be the dullest day I have ever spent in my life.
The evening meal came down upon us like a hurricane and
appeared to be the speediest breeziest thing that had
ever occurred. After it had finally come, spent itself,
and disappeared, there was of course a terrible lapse
and reaction.
There is much agitation tonight about the im-
pending of Sacco and Vanzetti. A great mass meeting on
the steps of the Town Hall led in song and speeches by
a high powered six-cylinder, triple expansion Laborite,
whose voice resembled the surf at South Beach, Martha's
Vineyard. He denounced the United States, the capitalist
government of Australia, the speaker who had spoken
before him, American goods, American trade, birth control
and Governor Fuller. In fact, he denounced everything
that had taken place since the history of man to oppress