AUSTRALIAN. DECREASE IN MELBOURNE'S POPULATION.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 89, 16 April 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN. DECREASE IN MELBOURNE'S POPULATION.

AN OFFICIAL ONSLAUGHT ON PROTECTION. SENTENCE ON A YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL. ! UNITED PBIRR ASSOCIATION. I (Reoeived April 16, noon.) Melbourne. This Dat. The population of the metropolitan district has decreased 6 per cent, as compared with that of the preceding year. As births show an increase over the deaths of fully 8 per cent., the decrease mußt be accounted for by people having left the district A somewhat extraordinary publication has been issued from the Government Printing Offioe by authority. The author attacks the arguments in support of Protection, and asserts that X 2.000.000 is wasted annually through the over-manning of the Publio Service. Adelaide, This Day. Mr. J. G. Jenkins suoceods Mr. F. W. Holder as Commissioner of Public Works. News has been received that the locallyowned barque Fleur de Maurioe has been wrecked at Durban on the East Coast of Africa. It is supposed that Kemp, lato Secretary to the Victorian Treasury Tender Board, for whom a warrant was issued on a charge of embezzling £1000, was on board. Pkrth, This Dat. A boy named Clipper bas been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for drowning his sister. _ ___^__^_^___^