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RECORD DROUGHT.
CHANGING ENGLAND. THE RULING POWER.
RISE OF INDUSTRÍAL- SOUTH.
the
ONE INCH OF RAIN IN THREE YEARS!
Evan the bush is dying."
BURIED UNDER SAND.
WHY RACING MEN SUPPORT TATTERSALL'S.
CHEAPER LAW.
INPROVEMENTS FOR THE
POOR.
London, April 5.-The Poor Per-
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REPLIES TO HISSES.
AUTHOR SHOUTS AT AUDIENCE.
Paris, Apr.
Imbociles!
Mr. James Sutters, the com- mission agent, has said that auth- ority of Tattersall's was of the Department at the High Ignoramuses! Fools! These were greatest importance to racing Court, which has dealt hitherto the words hurled at his audience
with applications to sue or defend the futurist leader, Bignor mon.
T. Marinotti, during the performi "I do not believe in legal as a poor person, will be abolished ance in Rome of his newest, most action to recover bets," he said, to-morrow, when its duties will be startling play." Volcano," which "bocause then the law courts taken ever by the solicitors caused an upheaval almost equal would be filled with petty dis branch of the legal profession to the implications of its title. putos, which would bring botting soting through the Law Society into disrepute. It is well, there- and the provincial Law Societies. The restive audience indulged in hissing, giggling, and shouting, fore, that the public, and racing
Committees of solicitors in the states, a message from Rome to poople in particular, should sup- port Tattersall's whole-hearted-provingos io, futuro, dan the New York Herud, (Paris
with applications from poor per-edition). ly.".
From the straight book sons in their areas. Cortificates. maker's point of view," he added, will be issued by the Law Society Signor Marinetti appeared be "it is most essential that we or a provincial Law Socipty, fore the qurtain after the disturb
after inquiry by a committee. fance and flayed the spectators in
terms should have a ruling, power.
quite unparliamentary, Anybody can go to Tattersall'sĮ
Two members of the committee telling thom plainly that they for a decision on the payment of must sign a certificato guaran- knew nothing and had seen
foe of guinea. Without that teeing that the person does not nothing committee a should be in a possess more than £60, or, in very serious position, because certain cases, £100, and is not in there would be no hold at all. It receipt of more than £8 a week, is therefore essential, to my or, in certain cases, £4 a week. mind, that the racing community should accept that body as the matrimonial, proceedings at 23 controlling power.
"Even among the best men district High Court registries. disputes will occur, each in- These are Birkenhead, Birming dividual taking the Rules of ham, Blackburn, Racing and attaching his own Bristol, Cardiff, Carlisle, Derby, meaning to them. Here at the Durham, Exeter, Ipswich, Loeds, Victoria Club it is a recognized Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, thing that we settle disputes be Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, tween our members, and we Portsmouth, Sheffield, Southamp have no need for an outside ton, Swansea, and York.
a
It will now be possible to begin
They ought to travel and learn, he said, before passing, judgment on his works or on those of any one else.
An unexpected drought has Unlike our neighbours across almost decimated "tho sheep, the Channel, says a Home writer, stations and cattle, runs in this we have never seen our way to northern part of South Aus-establish a quinquennial consus tralia---that in, the, contrè of in this country, and must there. Australia,
fore wait another five yours before Nothing like it has been learning definitely just what experienced by men who have movements are taking place in spent 50 to 60 years in the our population. I am told, how interior. ACClifton Hills there evor, that the next census is likely has been only one inch of rain in to have some surprises in store three years. The hardships of for us which may compel a pastoral proprietora aro revision of the once popular view aggravated by sandstorms. that England consisted of a rapidly Mr. W. H. Smith, who arrived expanding industrial north and a recently in Adelaide from 300 stagnant agricultural south; the miles northeast of the Marree, pendulum appears to be swinging stated that "the country is noth-tho-other way, as there is evidence ing but a running drift, just like that asteady southward migration wator. A man can't faco it; the has set in, moro particulary since country is so dry that there is the cossation of the demand for not the slightest bit of cover. munitions and shipping brought trade depression to the Clyde and the northeast coast. M.
A comparison
of passenger Mr. Smith described tracts of traffic statistics for last year com country buried two and three foetpared with 1923 tonds to confirm beneath sand where previously this opinion. The south and south not a grain of sarid was seen. Midlands are served by the Mr. Smith's firm at Clifton Hills Southern, the Great Western, and had lost between 12,000 and 15, the various electric railways 000 head of cattle: Sir Sidney operating in the London area, all Kidman had lost 15,000 at Theof which record increases over 1913 totalling 92,000,000 passen- Even camels could not stand gers, while the L.M.S. and the the excessive drought. Camel N.-E.R., which mainly depend teams that had come down from on the north and north Midlands, Cordillo Downs were too weak to both show decrpeses amounting make the return journey.
in the aggregate to 43,500. Even authority. Mr. A. C. Macdonald, of the this does not tell the whole story, Broken Hill district, said he had as it is in the southern sections of
A County Tyrone" farmer, Pat- sold out, after having been in the both the L.M.S. and the L.N.-E.B. days before the industrial revolu- eleven, as at present. The assize' rick Stane, received word country off and on, since 1880. that the traffic returns are best, tion. Since the war there has towns affected are Birmingham, that he had been left a for- Cattle had to be loaded at Broken One wonders whether
the undoubtedly been a tendency for Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, Carlisle, tune by his late brother in Hill without a drink, and the future will reverse the late posi- the miscellaneous trades of Chester, Derby, Durham, Exeter, privations suffered by stock in tion and bring again a prosperous the south and Midlands to Leeds, Leicester, Lewes, Liver America. He set off to Omagh transit were inconceivable.
In the back country the rainfull south, standing for progross, and prosper, while the great staple pool, Manchester, Newcastle, to see his legal representatives, a poverty-stricken north, leading industries of the north have Norwich, Nottingham, Winches- but when he reached the town he was getting less and less every the forces of reaction as in the languished.
dropped dead. year, and the country did not seem to be able to stand up against a drought as it used fo. Drovers who had been on the road for 40 years said they found every trip harder.
Bluff.
WORST FOR 20 YEARS.
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When the temperaturo is over 120 degrees," added Mr. Mac- donald, "it is a hard job driving a fat beast."
Sir Sidnoy Kidman, who re- turned to Adelaide from a round! of inspection of his properties in] Now South Wales and Queens- land, reported drought conditions: in those States also.
Cattlemen on the Cooper said it was the worst season they had' had for 20 years. Round Yantara
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blade of grass to be seen, and in many places the earth had been blown off the surface.
All reports agreed that thero must be a great meat shortage in the coming (Australian) winter.
HEADMASTERS' "RUBBISH."
A WOMAN'S VIGOROUS
RETORT.
"Women who have become headmistressės have always earned their promotion, and any young cub of an assistant-master who says he won't serve under her should clear out of the pro- fession."
This was the outspoken reply to the sex war declaration of the Headmasters' Association at Hull, by Miss Florence. Under- wood, secretary of the Women's Frondom League.
MASTERS AND INFANTS. Miss Underwood stated that the Schoolmasters Association usually produces something of the kind, and added, "Of course, it is all rubbish."
In all walks of life, said Miss Underwood, people have to serve their chiof whether it be a man or a woman, and when women have to pass through a college course in the same way as the mon, it is ridiculous to suggest | that if they rise to a good position| imen assistants should not be re-
quird to serve under them.
Miss Froud, general secretary of the National Union of Women Toachors, said:
Thero
are thousands and thousands of women equally woll qualified who have to serve undor headmasters, and the question of sox should not enter into the mattor at all.
What the public wants, and what it will have eventually, is the best-qualified person."
"At the present time, there are | hundreds of schoolmasters In the country in charge of infant school départments. That is perfectly. absurd, yet the men demand quito casually the hondship of schools| with infant departments, about which they know nothing.
Brighton,
Divorce suits following on the first procoodings will be triable at nineteen asgiza, towns, instead of
ter, and York.
What carried Signor Marinetti's
As
patience past the bursting point was the audience's roar of laugh- ter when one of the characters spoke of "blue archways." if," howled Marinetti, indignantly, every fool didn't know that archways in shade from the glare of the Sun are blue, deep blue, provocatively blue!"
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