Sydney Notes.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume II, Issue 151, 21 May 1894, Page 2

Sydney Notes.

( W rUlen SjxciaUy /or the Herald.

The impression that appears to be cur rent in New Zealand that Sydney (or New South Wales) is the more prosperous of the two countries, and the consequent influx of unemployed to this side should be discouraged. Those who come take an unfortunate step, as everything tends to prove that there l* a hard winter before us. There is very little to be gained by changing localities at present, though 1 have no doubt that, like the song “ When the spring time comes, gentle Annie" we will not have annie unemployed, or very few comparatively speaking. “ There • a good time coming" is the jubilation that roachr.. the ears of the New Zealand unemployed. but only let them wait till the good time entur*. and then this side wdl readily absorb all outside labor, as it ha* done before.

New South Wales m very cosmopolitan in its composition. It looks with distrust on no new comers swept t'hinaraen. All men are welcome, and b« come part of it self. Westialia and New Zealand are not built the same wax. sotuehow. New coiners are all distrusted and considered alfeu until they fight their way to n place by sheer endeavour. At leaM. such was the impression of the Australians who visited New Zealami by the way of gettiug a living, und such is the impression of our boys who have gone to the west, attracted by the goiden reports from Coolgardie. It is interesting to notice the different newspaper reports of Kurnalpie and Cool gardie now to what were primed t»onie

month, hark. I have thought place should be icrniel bv tho bvdney pr,.s Cool-rr-gardie oow that tlwYe * Wva.ong to boom. Whether the A t-ir* lion goldfields were coloeeal frauds I would not aesert as I think ibe prte truth is no more to be rehod upon than front the individual. Iu Dooming Cool-rt-gardie they weru aeuiing capital out of the country, *o Wyaloug was eaugnt up as a counter-attraction within our own doors. It is a purely local santimem, and should not be ooasidered too eenoualv by

men who have capital to lay out. Talking about capital reminds me of tho Dihbsian adimnistrauou of New South Wales. I daresay that you have heard of our Electoral Act and how it has worked up till the present. You m:gbl remember, my friends, that Dibbe the Premier was def -au-d some months a£o by a bag majority, but still clung to office under the plea that as the Act did not coune into force (or could not be got in working order for several months), and the old aet repealed he could not go to the country. 1 here were no voters, everybody had beem disfranchised, and Dibbe was dicta tor. Well, now the elections are drawing n-ar. and we have already nine hundred and nmaty nine candidates to contest one hundred and twenty five seats. Protectionists are cool to protection. Freetraders are not quite in favor of Freetrade, and everyone wants to get the labor vote, and Heaven only know» what is coming. Political matters are m such an uncertain state that nobody knewe what party will corne out on tne top next session, but if every man who preaches labor gsu returned and keeps his opinions (*o called) in the House we should have the strongest and most advanced government in the wide world But they ell look arter their own copper. biees you ! One of the signs of the times u the Barra Da tragedy. In fact crime in ail lie siege* i* the vary barometer of the times In bad times crime get* violent, a d occasionally a Barraoa-liae tragedy occurs. When business is humming nobody has time to go oat end do a tragedy. Then it is only the holiday osamac who runs amuck, when the people laa* ineir pleasure, and the man who nas delusions sod murders his family at the instigation of the Divine. But when bad times coma thing* look grimmer. We have desperate men abroad then, for hunger springs the drsl law of nature <which is ae.f preserve non, according to the philosophers > upon us. and somebody must go under. Men u;e hard. This .ncideot reminds one of the Kelly gang. Two men nde up to a oank and shoot the manager. but harry away and take nothing. Public opinion believes that it meant robbery, that ins men were d.«tarbed too quickly to get anything. It might just as well have been a vendetta for ali am body can say. Now. tne ponce turn out aiveeung any•ody haphazard on the off chance tnat they might get the right men They have two men who might be the murderers and who are committed for tnal, and in the meantime they are spying npon uem in their cells night and day and springing sudden quest.ons upon tneiu just a* they went looking for tnein mapnarard) to try and get them to edm.t that they re uie men. It does sot seem mucb Ike the story-book detective, does it? ireher. of tne Buxton-street tragedy, was !iung on his own admissions, and they •ire trying to do the same with thaae two nen. We mutt not expect to find much A the hero about detectives thowever the .elective story might boom tnemi in any country, for a man must be a cross oe : .veen a blood hound and a creeping lising reptile) to be a detective; bat for a

corrupt police force you might search the world over and find the worst in New South Wales. The clever wav they procured some of tne evidence that bung Makin was to put a detective in the eeli with him and win his confidence. Makin wa* the min who planted babies in Dark vard>. no*., it might be said, with the expectation that they might come up and bear good seed, but to dispose oi what wa* net wanted.