Australian News

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8195, 23 May 1906, Page 6

Australian News

(By E!«?trio tPdefitftpb-Coi^righi). For Frosi Aaaoeifttlon.* SYDNEY, May 21. The High Court, in reversing tho Supremo Court decision, held that a public lane doe* not oooie within Urn meaning of "a pbfto" in tho Betting Heutfi Suppression Act, ' Tbe effoct of < the judgment is to doclare utreet betting ' not unlawful. Tho Chief Justice, in delivering judgment. #aid probably it might be very doeirable to put down thai eorl of belting. Very likely it waa, but that wiw the bminesa of tho legislature, not of tho court* of jtistlec, Tho mo was governed by tho ca»e of Powell v. tho Kempton Park Racecourse Com* pany, and defendant wan not proved to have committed any offence against the statute. SYDNEY, May 22. Despite tho unpropitious weather there was a large gathering assembled at Parliament Houuo to mark tho .Jubilee of responsible Govern moat. Admiral JKawson, in the course of a speech, road a mesnage from tho King in which Hia Majesty thanked the State for its loyalty, and expressed tho hope that tho progress and prosperity that had marked Iho colony would continue in the fullest degree. Mr Carruthors, Premier, referred to tho unique character of tho gathering, and &aid great and beneficent changes had been wrought by constitutional government. The Speaker of the House struck a pessimistic note when he asked whether our progress was as healthy as it looked. They did not own a sleeper of their railway or n brick of their public buildings. They belonged to tbo people of .England, from whom tho State borrowed millions, and had to import from abroad everything they wore, ale or us' d.