'NO ENCUMBRANCES'

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 74, 30 March 1910, Page 7

'NO ENCUMBRANCES'

"HARD ON WOMEN AND HORSES." FRONTIER LIFE. AUSTRALIA WAS NOT WON WITHOUT HARDSHIPS. By Telegraph. — Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 30, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 29th Marco. Concerning the statement by the Sydney correspondent of The Times, th&t married Immigrants to New South Wales were denied employment because they were encumbered with children, Mary Gaunt (Mrs. H. Lindsay Miller), the novelist, in a letwr to The Times, quotes the proverb to the effect that the- frontier is hard on women and on horses. "Australia," she says, "was not won without hardships. Nowhere does individuality tell more markedly than in the immigrant. Those who are unprepared to imitate the earliest settlers — risk something and incur come deprivation for their own future— had bettor stay and starve comfortably in old England." The letter justifies the attitude of Australian farmers, and asks whether an English mistress engaging a cook would not dismiss her on the discovery that sbewould be likely to become a mother. Mary Gaunt was born in Victoria, her father being a County Court judge. She was educated at Grenville College (Ballaratj and Melbourne University (where she was the first woman student). She is the author of "Dave's Sweetheart," "Th» Moving Finger," "Kirkham's Find," "Deadman's.," and "Fools Rufh In." Her husband, Dr. Miller, of Victoria, died in 1900.

"The truth of the matter is, your Worship, that man there picked the sovereign up out of the sawdust on the floor and we cut it up between us." So declared a man named Alfred Burnecle in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Mr. Haselden, S.M., informed him that he would have to be convicted on a charge of stealing the sovereign. Up to this stage accused had stoutly protested his innocence. The informant, Alfred Basil Suckling, said ho was having a drink in the Terminus Hotel on Saturday afternoon, and accused came up to him and asked for fourpence. He produced out of his pocket a sovereign, which the latter promptly snatched. Other evidence was also called. After hearing accused's allegation against one of the witnesses, the magistrate remarked that it only made hi» duty all the easier. Sub-Inspector Norwood intimated that Burnecle had a record, and had only recently served a nine-months' sentence for housebreaking. In the pre sent case a sentence of three months' imprisonment was imposed. In reference to tho motor-cycle accident which happened to Mr. E. Rosenberg at Trentham on Good Friday, Mr. H. W. White, who was driving the motor-cycle, wishes us to remove an incorrect impression which he states prevails in consequence of certain accounts of ih« occurrence that have appeared in print. Mr. Whit* says that on the day .in question hv and Mi. Rosenberg left Wellington for Woodville by motor and trailer. The trailer was quite u«w and well made — bting fitted with motor-cycle tyrts. It was not a light trailer, as has been 'represented. The accident was caused, Mr. White adds, through two bars forming the frame of the trailer, breaking. From published statements it would appear that the motor was not pulled up until it had gone on for a considerable distance beyond the spot where the accident happened. Th» was not so, the motor being brought to a standstill within twenty-six pace. Mr "White is of opinion that the cmi.-c of the break was probably duo to a Haw in on* qf the igbfli