2020: DAY 56
SMH, p10
27 Sussex, Sydney, after demolition, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
P4 QUEEN OR PRESIDENT "British hands… have made two blades of grass grow in South Africa where only one grew previously; British enterprise developed its resources, and British statesmen delivered the native tribes from slavery. We found the Transvaal poor ; we made it rich. We protected the Boers and fought their battles to maintain the supremacy of white over black. We gave the Boers their internal independence under conditions which they have never respected-conditions which were so moderate and fair that the Boer failure to fulfil them stamps the Boer Executive as a treacherous and dishonourable body. In return for our generous treatment these simple farmer soldiers have compelled us to take up arms against them in order to avert such a catastrophe as the formation of South Africa into a Dutch Republic under a Dutch standard."
P5 TELEPHONE INQUIRY BOARD. / REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS. / THE METALLIC CIRCUIT SUGGESTED. As a great many of the present troubles having been attributed to the working of the new switchboard, the inquiry board took this as a starting point for investigation. …Recommendation that ‘complete metallic circuits be adopted throughout the whole service.’
P9: THE SITUATION. MAFEKING. So far as reliable information is concerned we are no nearer to Mafeking than, according to a Boer announcement, we were yesterday. We may entertain opinions that a relief column is already in the town, but we have no reliable authority for declaring that this is the case. However ardently we may long to tell the public that Mafeking has been relieved, we are unable to positively do so, although a careful study of all the cablegraphic intelligence forces one to the conclusion that if the relief has not already been effected a British column is fighting at some point between Kralipan and Mafeking. .. We may be certain that if Mafeking is relieved telegraphic communication with Pretoria is cut off. …
P10 FEDERATION. THE COMMONWEALTH BILL. / THE APPEAL TO THE PPIVY COUNCIL. / CLAUSE 74 EXPUNGED. / LOCAL FEELING ON THE QUESTION. – a series of views expressed
BUBONIC PLAGUE / WAGES IN THE QUARANTINED AREAS - Inspectors 15s per day; men with horses and drays 10s; and labourers, 7s. 3 cases, 1 death 811 rats 204 inoculations
HAFFKINE SERUM – 20,000 doses coming from Mauritius by British India Company steamer leaving on or about May 18, via Ceylon.
MOORE PARK TIP / INSPECTION BY THE PREMIER - 1/2 dozen women just leaving with rags and rubbish. "Mr Lyne did not notice any bad smells"