2020: DAY 60
SMH
Stables in Stephen St, rear of 26 Wexford St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
NB Trove is offline this weekend so checking page numbers and adding material is temporarily unavailable.. All I have is a note fragment. But here’s a little grab from British Hansard: from the first Reading of the Commonwealth Bill, introduced on May 14th, 1900; Second reading, May 21st, 1900. [Looks like the very possibility of Australia was treated by the British for a long time in the way the current Australian Government is treating climate change: indefinite deferral of action.]
In the reign of William IV. an Act was passed for the reform of this Court, and it was provided that certain colonial as well as Indian judges should sit upon the Bench. But no colonial judge was appointed till five years ago. Ten years ago he himself pressed the necessity for further reform, with all the power a private Member possessed, upon the Government of Lord Salisbury, and he was told the matter should receive consideration; but that Government went out of power, and no consideration was given to the matter. Five years later he pressed the same consideration on the Government of Lord Rosebery, and no doubt, so far as the Colonial Office was concerned, would have received the same attention as before; but fortunately the matter was taken up by Lord Rosebery personally, who brought in a Bill limited in extent, but adding three judges from the colonies to the Judicial Committee. He agreed with the hon. Member for Haddington that if this matter had been dealt with five, or even two years previously, Clause 74 would not have appeared in this Bill. The people of Australia were to be congratulated upon having brought this matter to the attention of the Government. The Government would have allowed the matter to drag on till the Day of Judgment had not pressure been put upon them, but now there was some hope that a new, permanent, and effective colonial representation would be placed upon the Privy Council, and that we should really have a Court of Appeal for the whole Empire. For this we thank the Australian people.
The Royal Commission of Assent to the Bill was presented by Queen Victoria to Australia on July 9th, 1900. Meanwhile, we’re still back in May …
BUBONIC PLAGUE
FURTHER RELEASE FROM QUARANTINE
FALLING OFF IN INOCULATIONS
- cases in Manly traceable to one spot
(the Camera Obscura at the pier) 776 rats
caught. Ashburton-Thompson justifies inoculation. In only 10 cases inoculation had taken place; outbreak mild. In one case, man died, but doubt that he'd been inoculated anyway.