ARQUIVO TROVE
A CONTRAST.
A passage in
our telegraphic news to-day reads curiously in contrast with certain incidents
of public interest in New South Wales. King Edward VII is about to visit the
King of Italy. On his way he will put in at Lisbon. Preparations are being made in the Portuguese capital to entertain
the King of Great and Greater Britain at a review, a regatta, and a bull-fight!
By all accounts, Portuguese bull-fights
are not quite such sanguinary affairs as those of Spain, but even then they
can be hardly more edifying spectacles
than the dog-fight, which in country towns of Australia often agreeably
relieves the monotony of public meetings, and of court proceedings. Anyway, there
is a sharp contrast between the entertainment of King Edward at a bull-fight
and the announcement of Sir John See, Premier of New South Wales, that he is
the man to put down “glove contests.” They evidently manage these things
differently in Portugal.
In EVENING NEWS, Sydney (Austrália) – 9 de Março de 1903