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Australia as a land of big wages Strong criticisms of the local and short hours (for the towns- const watching arrangements were man), and a a land of many made at Morwenstow, Cornwall, strikes, wag described by the Rev. recently, by an inquest jury after Dr. Norman Maclean, St. Cuththey had returned a verdict of bert's Moderate-Dealghate of the Church of Scotland, during the course of a lecture, "The Soot at the Antipodes, his exploits and his
humour," which he delivered in the United Free Church Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, recently..
Dr. Maclean sald there was great change over the spirit of Australia. Big elties weré, eating up the continent. The amazing thing was that in 90 years the city of Melbourne had grown to one million inhabitants. Half the
"washed ashore dead" "o. Cyril Webb, fireman, Cardiff, one of the seven victims of the Cardiff steam frawler Muirs. which foundered near Bude in a gale. The jury's points were:
The const-watching arrange- ments at Morwenstow in thick weather do not appear to be satis- factory.
In view of the weather on Tues- day night the const watcher should have been at his station.
1927.
HOAX VENDETTA.
SERIES OF "JOKES" ON
TWO GIRLS.
Two girls trying to retrieve their family fortune in business in the West End. London, have been tormented for several months by a long series of hoaxes.
The victims are the Misses Kath- teen and Eulalie Wolseley, and be lung to a branch of the family of the famous Field-Marshal. Both are still in their teons.
When a Daily Chronicle repre- sentative called at their gown and millinery shop in Woodstock Street they were absent from business, both ill.
.
Miss Eulalie has been seriously ill for some time, and her sister had broken down under the strain after a visit of an undertaker sent
Edward James Hughes, const ponatation of the State of Victoria watcher of Woodford-in charge were massed in one city. Over of the coast during the war and grown cities had been in all ages since-who heard of the wreek by the practical joker. the graveyards of civilisation.. the following morning, should bay! I was in the shop when he The retison for this feature of telephoned immediately and per- leame, said. Mrs. Wolaley. He said Australia was that they had adopt-sonally to Bude for the rocket ap- he had como in response to a tele- ed a policy of encouraging their paratus.
phone call to mensure the corpse. own industries. It looked a right
Both Kathleen and I hastened to enough policy. They shut out the
the flat where Eulalie was dying. manufactured goods of other coun
We never remembered the hoax- tries by tariff, and, under its pro-cial weather reports, as stated in er until we reached the flat, and tection, a great wage bill could the evidence of Mr. Carter, the dis-then Kathleen's be paid, because the factory was secure of selling its products at them in the performance of their
trict officer, "as this obstructs pieces. indated prices. The poor man duty." working on the land paid for it.
The lowest wage for unskilled workmen in Melbourne was £4. 17s. 6d., and the native who could not count beyond five could not be employed unless he was paid per week. The native know nothing about money,
and the wage had to be paid on his behalf to a policeman. He wondered who was going to watch the policeman. (Laughter.) The man on the land was doomed to lifelong slavery.
In the city there was a 11-hours weck, unlimited cinemas, and n race meeting every second day.
The jery protested against the withholding of the Boad of Trade instructions, regulations, and off-
Watcher's Evidence.
Hughes. giving evidence, said that when he went to bed at ten Tuesday night the o'clock on weather was beautifully clear. He heard about the wreck from Page, the wireless operator, ne or the Maira survivors.
He first told his wife to tele- phone to Bude, and then ran to the scene of the wreck: feur men Next he went to the watch-hut for were clinging to the riggings.
the life-saving apparatus--the only hope, as he considered that, a life-boat would have been snmsh-
His orders for const watching were to go out when sent and usa his own discretion.. He did not agree that he lost time.
The Government of Australia was really in the hands of Trades Hall. They fixed everything. Tue, this country they thought it bad to have so many strikes, but in Australia the strike was the order of every day. There was an in stance in which men working at bridge construction struck with the demand that either the diree tion of the wind should be changed To they mass
have 25 per cent. more wages. (Laughter.)
"Boom, Borrow, or Burst."
The man on the land could not export what he, produced. The ex- penses of carriage would eat up
his profits, There was no hope,
A juryman asked if it was not better for the life-boat to go out from Bude or Pastew on a cock and bull story rather than to risk men's lives.
nerves went to
A little while ago the represen- tative of a firm the girls deal with eame and mildly rebuked them for not telling his employers the plight they were in."
It transpired that his firm had been informed again by telephon that Avril, Ltd., the name my daughters trade under, had gone bankrupt and intended clearing out at the end of the week.
False Fire Alarm.
motion was caused in the street by Only last week a terrible com-
the arrival of the fire brigade. The officer said they had been in- formed that our shop was blazing furiously.
Just before Christmas a huge eart bearing a top of coal and a ton of coke stopped outside, the shop. It had been ordered the driver said, for delivery to Avril, Ltd and he hung about the place for ages, it seemed, wondering what to do with it.
Hughes--The lires should be
All these things are helping to saved first, but I had to investigaterair my daughters' business, and have asked Scotland Yard to help to put a stop to il.
before I could send the orders.
Weather Reports.
Frederick William Carter, divi-
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My daughters keep themselves sional officer of coastguards, ex-so-themselves, and I cannot help in the present condition, of things,plained that Hughes had to watch thinking that there are people for people being able to start ou the const as far as he could see, about here who think they are the land to their own advantage. but had no part to patrol, if snobbish. They are not, although One Scotsman had summed it up necessary he (Carter) should they never take to anyone outside by saying that it was boom or
have instructed Hughes to go on their own class. borrow or burst, and they were watch. getting to the burst Hiage. Asked to quole the official (Laughter.) Now they were weather report of Tuesday, night, building another city, Canberra, he said his instructions were that which would be a marvel, on bor-1am.lication for official records rowed money.
should be made to the Board of
The cause of much of the evil Trade. was that Australia had committed
He was not allowed to disclose
a great blunder in establishing the instructions given to watch-
purely secular system of eden-
tion.
men without the sanction of the Board of Trade.
In Melburne, in Cup week, the Richard William Page, the wire- whole population had a perfectless operator, of King's Road, passion for gambling, and in thai Aylesbury, described how 11 eity on at day morning, when Muira n
into a dense fog on splendid motor cars were goingTuesday night and, went on the away to the country or the serocks. He sent out wireless mes side, there was a wee trickle or saves until the mast was carried prople making their way to the away. Churches. They saw then the fruits of scenlar education,
mity
Afterwards he was washed over board, and was 90 minutes in the water before he got ashore,
He failed in his first attempt la scramble up the eliff, and so wait-
they hnd an match in the world.
Applause.)
The problem of Australia wan The ling-up of her empty spaces. and she was changing it into the problem of building up bloated anded until dawn. overgrown cities. But there were wonderfully encouraging things l Australia, such as the courage, hope, and bravery of the ministers who were holding up the fast or religion. Australia had
Dr. Maclean, in replying to a drawbacks. There were no noun- vote or thanks, moved by Lord tains with eternal snow, there was 1 Constable, said that they owed no equable climate, there were no a debt to Australia they could rivers; but the Australian would, never repay for her part in the sooner or later, solve the problems war. The Australians were the which were facing him. His soul most loyal people on earth. They would awake. Not many Aus- loved the British Empire. in which tralians would qualify for the in time Australia would be the oldership in St. Giles' Cathedral, predominant partner. (Laugh- but for kindness and generosity |ter.)
The Misses Wolseley opened their shop about two years ago. and on arrival the second morning found that the premises had been bargled. The entire stock, with the exception of one
gown, had
been stolen.
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