VICTORIA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 12

VICTORIA.

A youth, a stranger to Melbourno, accompanied by a small child, a few days ago wandered into the enclosure in the Botanic Gardens containing a number of Australian birds and animals. A fullygrown wallaroo resented the intrusion, and fiercely attacked the youth. Clasping him round the neck with the foropaws, it clawed him with the hind leg, rippinpr his trousers from top. to bottom. TFetaching himself with difficulty, the young fellow jumped the fence and escaped. Tho little one had previously left by tho gate. The young woman, who, as we reported last week, jumped from a train at Sandringham on the 14th inst. in an attempt to save a. child which had fallen out of the train, died in the Alfred Hospital on the 17th. Deceased's name was previously given as Miss Agnes Mathers, but it was afterwards ascertained that she was married, and that her name was Goldsworthy. Iv Melbourne, last week, a deputation of representatives of a joint committee formed from the Collins-street Baptise Men's League of Social Servlco, and representatives of the working class, waited upon the Council of Churches, in the Collins-street Independent-hall, in order to discuss with them the apparent estrangement between the working classes and the church. The deputation was accompanied by Mr. J. W. Fleming, the Yarra Bank orator. The secretary to the council (the Rev. W. L. Grierson) announced that an intimation liad been received from tho Trades-hall that that body had nob appointed anyone to officially represent it at the deputation. Mr. G. P. Barber, /ice-presi-dent of tho council, received the deputation. The Rev. S. Pearce Carey, who introduced the deputation, said the deputation wished to find how the ohurches could more fully and more truly relate themselves to the "people, to the industrial and economic problems of the people, and to the political ideais and social aspirations of the people. The deputation requested the council to invite the assistance of the Trades-hall Council in securing an absolutely representative and comprehensive conference between all the churches and labour, for the consideration of the pioblem of a closer , union ; the observance of an annual Labour Sunday ; and an interchange of delegates between the labour unions and the churches. Mr. G. J. Mead said the statement that the Labour party was irreligious was a base, cruel falsehood. The Labour party worked for the safeo of humanity, and some of its members worked for the sake of Jesus Christ. Mr. Barber, in reply, said he thought the suggestions made by the deputation were excellent. He approved especially of the proposal for the establishment of a Labour Sunday. He would submit the requests of the deputation to the council. 4s the visitors had no recognised authority behind them, things remain much as they were. An element of confusion was introduced by Mr. Fleming, who, though out of order, "took charge" for a time, and gave a socialist oration.