2020: DAY 61
SMH, p4
Wexford St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
(P 3 )THE COMMONWEALTH BILL IN ENGLAND / “A GREAT FAMILY SETTLEMENT"/ " INSUPERABLE OBJECTIONS."/ MR HALDANE'S SOLUTION /OPPOSITION TO PRIVY COUNCIL CLAUSE. (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, April 20.
THE SANITATION OF SYDNEY GARBAGE REMOVAL AND STREET CLEANING - things have improved but: "...Still in the early morning the open cart laden with rubbish drags along in its moody perambulations through the streets, heedlessly shedding as it goes part of its store, and always psreading in its tracks noisome odours." Council has 75 garbage removers who each supply their own horse and cart for £3/3/- per week. Drivers are assisted by labourers. Begin at 5 am. Sweep streets. Full carts to Moore Park. Service costs £250 per week. Revenue from sale of manure (horseshit) and special fees - £2500 pa.
(P4) EVENING EDITION – Australian federal delegates congratulated ‘upon the realisation of their national aspirations. Hope expressed that ‘new Commonwealth will have a long and glorious career.’ Premier of New South Wales (Mr. W. J. Lyne) has been created a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
Her Majesty celebrates her entry on the eighty-second year of her age to-day. As the years go on the Royal anniversary is hailed with ever-increasing enthusiasm. … It is no mere form of conventional eulogy to say that the sagacity and prudence of Queen Victoria have made her a model to constitutional sovereigns and rulers, or to claim for her personal influence a large share of the national fruits which have been harvested under her benign rule. It is not only as a model to sovereigns, but as a model to women that the Queen is conspicuous in her kingdom. In all the domestic and personal relations of life which a woman is called upon to fill, and markedly in the capacities of wife and mother, she has offered an example of all the virtues that hold the family and society together. It is those truly womanly types that sweeten life and civilise it, and not the least of the Queen's claims on the admiration of her people is the high ideal of womanhood which she has consistently presented. … The world has not before seen such a dominion as ours, or such a rapid process of empire-building. It dazzles the imagination merely to think of the extent of territory and the vast population made up of so many races so curiously differing in all the customs and modes of speech that belong to humankind. India, the Dominion of Canada, our possessions in Nigeria and along the Nile, in the African sub-continent, and not least in the soon to be realised Commonwealth of Australia, make up with the United Kingdom such an empire as the world only holds room for once or twice in history. …
Sir William Lyne knighted: “We may presume that the main actuating cause with the Imperial Government in advising the new knighthood was a desire to recognise the Australian offer of assistance to the mother-country in the South African campaign and the prompt despatch of an exceptionally useful body of troops. Of course, all the Australian colonies took part in that demonstration of loyal service; but the mother-colony was first, and ours was the largest reinforcement.
(P5) THE SITUATION. NEARING THE END.
(P6) MAFEKING DAY /CITY CELEBRATIONS POSTPONED / CONTINUOUS HEAVY RAIN /DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
BUBONIC PLAGUE / RELEASING OF DARLING HARBOUR WHARFS - 1 case, no deaths 702 rats Works held up by rain.
THE WEATHER HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE CITY PARTS OF THE SUBURBS FLOODED A Downpour at the rate of nearly 4"/hr - will bring rainfall up to average of 21" for this time of yr.