AUSTRALIAN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 8658, 22 October 1896, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN.

Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Per Press Association. BLASTING ACCIDENTS. Melbourne, October 21. At the inquest on the fatal blasting accident at North Sydney sewerage works a rather sad incident was related. O’Sullivan, who was in charge, was working through to meet McNamara, the deceased. As the men came nearer it was necessary to warn each other when a charge was about to be fired. O’Sullivan forgot to give the signal. He remembered the omission after he got some distance , away, and ran back, but dropped the candle, and then becoming confused rushed away and ran into the tunnel at the other end. O’Sullivan who assisted to carryout his dying mate, has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. THE TARAWERA. Sailed—Tarawera, for Auckland. THE WAKATIPU. Sailed -Wakatipu for the Bluff. RIFLE SHOOTING. Sydney, October 21. At the National Rifle Association meeting to-day, in the Jacques Match, Mr McGrOgot was seventh and won a £3 prize. TOO HIGHLY EDUCATED. Brisbane, October 21. Mr J. H. Anderson, M.A., Undersecretary of the Department of Public Instruction, who recently visited Sydney for the purpose of inquiring into the system of higher education in vogue there, speaks highly of the training, but says that a large number of locallyreared and well-educated under graduates al'e quite unable to find congenial

employment. Thus, he thinks, there is a tendency to form a class mentally disqualified to earn their living under the conditions of the times, and that will produce a State danger and a large uneducated proletariat.