Corroboree

Corroboree.—It was represented by circu-
lars all over the town, a few days ago, that one
of these common exhibitions, on a grand scale,
was to come off on Monday evening last. In
consequence of this notice, no fewer than at
least a thousand persons attended on the Park
Land to witness it. The corroboree turned
out, however, to be a mere trifle. Three small
parties of blacks skipped about in the moon-
light, hemmed in closely by dense masses of
whites, of both sexes; while the dust they
kicked up, and the rich exhalations from their
perspiring greasy limbs, formed the only part
of the enjoyment of which the eager spectators
outside the "sacred circle" could partake;
while those in immediate contact with the odo-
riferous performers must certainly have had a
benefit of their contiguity, in which the ma-
jority, posted in less favourable situations, did
not anywise appear anxious to participate.