2020: DAY 68
SMH p7
178 Elizabeth St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
(p 3) – ABATTOIRS / TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD - “… an open sore, so filthy and repulsive as to need the strong hand of Government to interpose and snatch from the nerveless grip of incompetence and lazy ignorance the reins of government which they have shown themselves so ill-fitted to handle. Darling Harbour had become a sickening cesspool of disease. The shores of the harbour were nuclei of unmentionable filth and all abominableness and a menace to public health; and yet in the face of this ghastly and costly experience it is calmly proposed to shift the abattoirs to a site on the Parramatta River whence the offal and filth naturally inseparable from abattoir arrangements, no matter how well conducted, must of necessity percolate into the river and reproduce the old filthy conditions…. I am a busy man and have little time for newspaper correspondence, but … JAS. INGLIS
(p5) – PUBLIC SCHOOLS' PATRIOTIC DISPLAY. / GREAT FETE AT THE CRICKET GROUND. / AN ENORMOUS GATHERING. / DEMONSTRATION OF LOYALTY AND PATRIOTISM.
(p7) – FRANCE / THE DREYFUS CASE
FEDERATION / THE NEW CLAUSE IN THE COMMONWEALTH BILL / OPINION OF SIR S. GRIFFITH
BOXERS" MARCH ON PEKIN PLUNDERING AND MURDERING. / BELGIAN ENGINEERS BESIEGED. LONDON, May 29. " The Boxers," a seditious society, are murdering and plundering within 29 miles of Pekin. Japan has landed a force of blue-jackets at Tientsin, the port of Pekin. May 30. The " Boxers " are near Pekin. They have destroyed the railway workshops at Fengtai, eight miles from Pekin. The Belgian engineers, who controlled the shops, are surrounded, and are besieged on a hill. A party of Frenchmen and of Germans have armed themselves and have gone to the rescue of the Belgians. The Powers have announced that they will return their guards, which some months ago were withdrawn at the request of the Empress Dowager, to their respective legations at Pekin.
LATE EDITION /HERALD OFFICE, 6 a.m. / THE WAR / ANNEXATION OF THE FREE STATE / LONDON, May 30 – Orange Free State annexed on behalf of Great Britain
(p8) – THE BUBONIC PLAGUE./ ANOTHER CLEAR DAY. The register of fresh cases of bubonic plague yesterday was clean, showing that none were discovered … All the work in the quarantined areas was completed vesterday, and as no further areas have been declared the men engaged on them, to the number of 1050 were temporarily dismissed. It is, however, understood that they will be again engaged. On the wharfs all the staff has been retained, and work there is progressing… The number of rats delivered direct at the incinerator yesterday by the ratcatcher was 546.
THE SOLAR ECLIPSE. / AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GOVERNMENT ASTRONOMER