NEW SOUTH WALES.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 9

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Mr. If. lJeano, Kngincer-in-Cnief for R.,ilwav Constiuction, who luis returned to Sy'dnev from a tour abroad, says motor vehicles aro everywhere being adojitfil us feeder* to main lines. The Stuto Education Department intendfi to provido for the teaching of temperance in its new syllabus of instruction. 'The Premier hopes shortly to establish an Information Department, where enquiries as to land, agriQultur.il resources, and tourist resorts can bo answered. The Hill dividing tho State into local government shires will he one of tho fjixt measures submitted during the next session of Parliament. The Bill provides for a graduated Government endowment, n.nd confers certain taxation powers-, the incidence principally being upon land values. The existing land tux is not to bo collected in shires in addition to tho local tax. On the recommendation of tho Sydney Rocks Rreumption Board, tlio Premier has approved of the area being known in futiiro as "Observatory Hill." The State Premier and the Minister for Lands returned to Sydney on lnet Monday week from the north. They havecomo to the conclusion that it is necos-s-iry to throw open more land for settlement, especially in the North Coast districts. Tho Stato CSowrnor returned to Sydney on tho Bth inst., after an extensive trip. Ho drove from Broken Hill to Condoholin, a distance of over 400 miks. During Uio trip Sir Harry Rawson had a number of novel experiences, on several occasions spending tho night at unoccupiwl homesteads. In viow of the- splendid rains throughout the country, ample fowl is available, and concessions for the carriages of starving slock liavo been withdrawn,. Tho annual University commemoration and tho conferring of degrees took place at tho Sydney Town Hall on the 6th inst. Tho 'Chancellor in his address pointed out that tin; t«nd«ncy in educational matters was in tho direction of tho practical instead of tho theoretical. Mr. Carrutliors estimates that up to Ist May tliero was a reduced expenditure in connection with tho Departments of £275,000. Thirty-fivo farms, covering an area of 12,238 iores, have- been allotted ab Myall Crook, tho first estate purchased under tho new Closer Settlement Act. Tho purchase money amounted to £40,786. A strange disea.se is spreading amongst tho horses in parts of tho Coraki district. The animals suffer great pain, and tho diseaso seems to be invariably fatal. In future the New South Wales Govornnveiu launehr.s aro not to 1 bo permitted to bo used for ordinary picnic and social events. The Sydney' Board of Health reports that as tho result o{ its regulations adulteration of foods haa largely decreased. A house at Port >Macquario was dostroyea by fire last week, and a young man named Fred Hall, who was ill in bed, burnt to death. Tlio Sydney Labour Council has adopted a label for application to goods manufactured in New South Wales umW union conditions. 'The Council urgwl tho Premier last, week to make the indenturing of apprentices compulsory, and to give tho sons of workmen proforenro at tho Technical Colloge. Mr. CirruMii'iis wai not in sympathy with the request regarding pro fere iuv. In other respects he said tho deputation hid no tangible schom-c. 'The Sydney Boilermakers' Union has refused to adopt piece-work raios of pay, as sugge-slcd by the firm willing to undertake tho construction of locomotives in the State. Mr. Cnrriitliers considers that, as a result of tho numerous ollfraUons and imnuulo iv &to old P*rliumont

buildings at Sydney, they will bo good enough for a oonUiry. At tho Presbyterian General Assembly at Sydney last week, a minister protested indignantly against only boing allowed expenses for travelling secondclass, lie said they should not suffer tho humiliation of slinking into secondclass carriages, whilst Anglican and Roman Catholics 'travelled fir«t-dass. A carter was at thn Central Police Court sentenced to fomtcen days' imprisonment, wMiout tho option, for cruelly ill treating a horse. Mr. SuUnr, Coinmvrci.il Agent in the E,i<sl, says lh.it t.ho Newcastle coal strik« has had a disastrous effect upon the N^w South Wales export trade. Tho Bydncy City Council granted perjiikbion last week for a line of penny motor Tjiirus from \Vynyard-6quare to St. John's road, Ol<>b<\ The Health and Bylaws Committee of tho Sydney City Council has adoptod tho draft of a Bill providing for adult suffrage at municipal elections. _ A Jiiob of cattle was detrained tho other day at Cowra, anil 'turned looso on a d-opaslurc reserve near tho trucking yards. Tho growth of grass was exub<>rant as a result of tho rains, and 94 of the cattle died from over-feeding. The Hospital Saturday collections were made in Sydney this year under uncomfortable conditions, heavy rain falling in the city and suburbs nearly all day. In spile of the weather the total for the year was brought up to £4094, which is only less by £29 than the amount collected last year. A feature- of the street collection was tho great falling-olf in the number of Mniill coins contributed, and the increase in sovereigns and half-crowns. The Bishop of Goulbum says aged clergymen should not be turned adrift, after faithful service, like broken-dowr buggy horses. The Dart, tender to the training-ship iSobraon, has been completely overhauled in preparation for instruction in seamanship to tho boys. VICTORIA. Archbishop Carr considers it a misfortune that the term Socialism had come to bo identified with two totally different sets of ideas and aims, one legitimate and the other immoral. He suggests, as both are often confounded under the one name, that industrial State Socialists should call themselves Christian Democrats. Mr. Justice Hood has suspended a Geelong solicitor from practice for three months* /or misconduct. He said it would be dreadful if it were to go abroad that a solicitor, using his clients' money, could escape with the repayment of it. It is believed the mail companies are willing to reduce their freights on Austialian butter in order lo meet competition. A burning fatality occurred last week at Adelaide Lead, near Maryborough, Mm. Ann Smart being slowly roasted to death. The old woman, who was in a feeble state of health, was discovered by her daughter-in-law, lying dead in bed, terribly burnt. The- arms and legs were completely burnt ofT the trunk of the body, which itself was alw very much charred. The woman was addicted to smoking, and It is thought that while she was smoking the bed clothes caught fire. Tho Premier has completed the purchase for closer settlement purposes of tho Memsio Kslatc at I3ridgowator, on the Loddon Kiver. Thi» property is 10,000 acres in extent, and is eighteen miles from Bendigo. It consists of rich loamy soil and river fliils and as it has always been used for giazing purposes is practically virgin soil as far as agriculture is concerned. The average rainfall is set down at about 20in. The Nord-Deutscher-Lloyd Company is building three large mail steamers forthe Australian service. The company has also decided to establish a special lino of cargo steamers between Germany and Australia. When tho Full Court next sits (says tho Melbourne Ago) a young lady will apply to bo admitted to practise as a barrister and Holicitor. The event, which will bo uniquo in our legal history, is, we may fairly assume, being looked forward to by (ho bar — tlio junior bar especially — with peculiar interest. M. Moonoy, tho well-known Victorian ci oss-country rider, died as the result of injuries he sustained at Caulficld on Saturday week in a steeplechafce race. It is understood that tho State Government, has completed arrangements for starting the State brickworks of thirty acres at Northcote. Eighteen acres have been set aside for workmen's homes, to be disposed of at £256 an acre. The salo of eighteen acres will bring in £4500. or £500 loss than the Government paid for the wholo thirty acres. The machinery and plant for the brickworks will cost £7000, and will bo capable, of turning out 150.000 bricks per week. A proclamation has been issued summoning tho Stato Parliament to attend for tho despatch of business on Tuesday, 27th Juno. The Government has decided to. find employment for some of the members of tho executives that directed the railway strike. WMien the strike was ended, tho Cabinet considered the claims of each man for reinstatement, and specifically barred certain men, as being unworthy of consideration, because of their record, diameter, or offences during tho strike. These men are now finally told that they can never hopo to be re-employed in the Government service, but others who a-t the timo of tho strike had been in tho railway service moro than five years, are to be given work in some Government service other than the railways. They will bo employed in connection with the steam motor 'buses, or the St. Kilda-Brighton electric tram, within tho next two months. Thirty-two of the strikers will be put on this work. At the May Day meeting at tho IJallarat Trades Hall, Mr. Griffith, M.L.A., of New South Wales, who claimed to b«> a loyal son of the Church of England, said that if Bishop Green made his recent criticism of the Labour party in ignorance, ho was not fit to bo at the head of tho Church in Ballarat, and if, on tho other hand, ho uttered the remarks maliciously he (Mr. Griffith) could only say it was " a lie, a d lie." Bishop Green, on boing interviewed, snid if Mr. Griffith had carefully read the address delivered before tlib synod ho must have seen that thoro was no attack, direct or indirect, on tho Labour party. "In alluding as I did," Dr. Green observed, " to a knot of men who avowedly profess principles of Paganism, I carefully separated them from tho leaders of tho Labour party, against whom I should bo very sorry to make any such accusation. Mr. Watson, for instance, I recogniso as an entirely honourable and high-minded man. Ho was my guest in my own house only a few weeks ago."