2020: DAY 51
SMH p8
293 Kent, Sydney, 1900, after cleansing - Source: State Library of NSW
p7 ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. / THE CRATER ENGULPHED. /LONDON, May 12.
FBEDERATION. / MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S FINAL MEMORANDUM. / AMENDMENTS MEAN NO MIS-TRUST.
IMPERIAL INTERFERENCE REGRETTED. / MR. BARTON SAYS IT IS “MISCHIEVOUS AND MEDDLESOME."
MR. CHAMBERLAIN RELYING ON "A DEFEATED MINORITY."
LORD LAMINGTON'S SPEECH./ LONDON, May 12. / ENGLISH PRESS OPINION. / LORD LAMINGTON'S EXTRAORDINARY SPEECH DECLARED UNSEEMLY AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL. /LONDON, May 12. Mr. C. C. Kingston (South Australia),in a letter to the newspapers, repudiated the monstrous suggestion that Australia's claim to decide purely Australian questions was equivalent to an attempt to dismember the British Empire, and declared that the speech of Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland, was an unseemly, unconstitutional, and unfair intrusion. … The " Daily News " says that if the Australian people are behind the federal delegates it would be idle, mischievous, and dangerous to try and thwart them …
THE COMMONWEALTH BILL - to be introduced into House of Commons by Mr Chamberlain today (May 14)
MAFEKING RELIEF COLUMN. / MOVING BY FORCED MARCHES. / LONDON, May 12,
(P8) THE POLITICAL SITUATION. / THE QUESTION OF CALLING PARLIAMENT TOGETHER. / THE COMMONWEALTH BILL. / CRITICISM BY MR. REID./ REPLY BY THE PREMIER.
The leader of the Opposition is concerned at the delay on the part of the Government in calling Parliament together. Mr. Reid informed a Herald reporter last night that the Premier had promised that the Legislative Assembly should meet at the end of April. As a matter of fact the Government has been in office for eight and a half months, out of which time Parliament has only been sitting for two months. Having in view the duties of members to the public, Mr Reid thinks that the Government has extended the recess altogether too long He is also of opinion that the Government is " too secret " The public, he says, ought to be supplied with the precise form in which Mr Chamberlain desires to amend the Commonwealth Bill The Australian delegates had, no doubt, fully reported on the matter, and the public have a right to information at the earliest possible moment Mr Lyne was responsible to the people of this colony, and the Parliaments of Australia should certainly have an opportunity of expressing their opinion on any alterations in the bill. Mr Reid also prophesies that when the House does meet there will be trouble in store for the Government over their Budden and illegal " resumption of the Darling Harbour wharfs.
THE BUBONIC PLAGUE. / STATEMENT BY DR. THOMPSON. / THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
"Without saying that we are sure, we may say that we begin to perceive a kind of premonition of, at all events, the end of the outbreak. We cannot be too sanguine because the data - the signs - are not perfectly clear, and indeed are not clear enough for real definite description. They are rather matters of epidemiological instinct or intuitions...The professional sanitarian is generally able to see things which he cannot always give good reasons for..."