NEW SOUTH WALES.
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A public meeting had been held at the Town Hall for the purpose of considering the effect of the projected expenditure on the formation'of railways and other public works in the colony of Victoria; and to urge upon the Legislature of New South Wales the advisability of adoptiug similar measures in this colony, to develop its vast resources, and to maintain its legitimate place among tbe Australian Colonies.
The annual ball of the Ancient Order of Freemasons took place in the Prince of Wale 3 Theatre, Sydney, on the evening of the 24th June. Owing to indisposition, his Excellency the Governor-General was unavoidably absent. Captain Clarke, P. G. M. of Victoria, was among the company. The Committee of the Legislative Council has brought up a Report, accompanied by an amended Bill, for the purpose of carrying out Dr. Douglass's resolutions,for the inspection and seizure of. provisions unfit for human food. The Bill provides that the Governor and Executive Council may appoint an inspector, who, during business hours, shall have power to enter premises and, seize any provisions (namely, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, milk, fruit, vegetables, corn, rice, meal, flour, or bread), which, being intended for human consumption, be may consider unfit for that purpose. Any justice of the peace confirming that opinion (after taking the evidence of a chemist or other skilled person if he think fit) may order the goods to be destroyed, and inflict a fine of £5 in each particular case. Any person preparing or having for sale unwholesome flour mixed with sound flour, to be liable to a fine of £10 or not exceeding £20. Provision is made for the infliction of a penalty upon any inspector who may disclose any particulars of the business carried on in the premises which he may inspect, except for the purpose of the Act. " Thero is a complaint" (so says a writer from .Braidwood) " that some of the Sydney unemployed sent up here refuse 80s. a week, with board and lodging, and say they must
have £2, with board, &&". If this is true it is a good ground of complaint, (ot even a kboiii'dr with a family ought to subscribe to such termh, rather than be a burden to the country. From other quarters complaints come that the " utiemployed" seem more ambitious of. shining in the forum than at the plough's tail. We .well know that these are but exceptional' cases amongst the great mass of the unemployed—* and no doubt the noisiest persons.
NEW SOUTH WALES.
Colonist, Issue 77, 16 July 1858, Page 3
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