AUSTRALIAN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 8213, 22 May 1895, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN.

Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Per Press Association. THE HON. MR WARD. Sydney, May 21, The Postmaster-General has received a cablegram from the Vancouver agents of the Canadian mail steamers asking if he will allow the Warrimoo to call at Auckland bn her return trip to land the Hon. J. G. Ward, This is believed to be the thin end of the wedge to getting the Canadian line of steamers to call regularly at New Zealand, NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. In the Legislative Assembly the debate on Sir Henry Parkes’ motion of censure was resumed. Mr Wise said that the Government had not attempted to carry out their pledges. He generally agreed with the programme, but said that there was no chance to carry it out. They pledged the land tax without exemption but introduced a Bill which would take the burden off speculators and place it on the shoulders of producers.

OF INTEREST TO ROWING MEN. Brisbane, May 21. Speaking at a picnic in honour of the eight-oared crews from Victoria and New South Wales, the Hon. Thomas J. Byrnes, Attorney-General, referring to the action of the Rowing Association, of Sydney,in ordering the New South Wales crew to withdraw from the contest be- 1 cause one of the Victorian crew was alleged to have raced for cash in bicycle races, said that if the men had withdrawn it would have been a death-blow 1 to the international contests. He con-' sidered that there was nothing in the point raised, and looked with great concern on an arbitrary definition regaining prof essionalism being introduced into rowing. To his mind a professional was a man who applied his skill for pro-! fessional purposes, and all the colonies ought to agree as to the definition of; amateur which should cover the whole of Australia. Mr Quist, of New South, 1 Wales, said that the Victorian crew had been formed long before the New South' Wales crew left Sydney, and if the Rowing Association had wanted to take exception it should have done so before the Victorian crew left Melbourne. In refusing to obey the Association he was guided by the rule that men should bb recognised as amateurs by their own colony. He considered he. would have acted in an unsportsmanlike manner if he had withdrawn.' No doubt he would be censured by the Association, but in what he had done he was supported by the whole of the crew. Mr Upward, of Victoria, endorsed the views of Mr Quist.