AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 18, 18 May 1912, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.i

Sydney, Mav 17

In the High Court, in an application on behalf of tfae shipping companies connected with the Vend ease to iix the date of hearing of appeal, counsel admitted that it was an application for an adjournment. He was unable 10 have the printing done by .July. The Chief Justice, in declining the application, declared that there were still two months during which enough printing could be dene to cover all the j cases heard in the Court for several I years. The fact of the matter was that ' somebody was too tired. The Labour Council 'has decided to urge the establishment of a State bread factory. Genera] Baden-Powell severely condemns loafers. Me includes in the category people of leisure who frivol away their lives, equally with the tramp who refuses to work. It might be observed that a fair proportion of ladies were in the same line of business. The waste of human bodies and souls was appalling. Learning to play the piano in this world would not 'help them to play the harp in the next. He blames lookers-on at lootball and other sports, the spectators

being too lazy to play themselves. He indicated that scouting ■.< sas a panacea for developing character, honour, pluck, observation, deduction, self-re-liance, energy, chivalry and proficiency in handicraft and public service.