All the papers with Henry vales and Marion's early work are washed away in some flood or fire, thankfully we have the other country papers publishing their work.
The
Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser (NSW:
1868 - 1931)
26 FEB
1876
No. I.
**OF course
all your readers are aware that the new Education Bill is the chief topic of
interest in Sydney just now, causing quite as much Social us Political Excitement.
The social
aspect now presented is a very influential committee with a told and imposing
front and a formidable array of names, with titles from the devoted L.L.D. down
to the comparatively modest B.A.
The ball has
been opened by the notification of a monster meeting, to protest against the sixth clause.
The chief speakers will be the Metropolitan (Dr. Barker),
Revs. Zachary Barry, and J. C. Kirby, as well as some lesser lights.
‘Honest
John ' has found himself to be in such a 'fix' that he is like the proverbial
fool 'who meddleth with strife."
' Apropos of this subject, it has transpired that the Cabinet
have made an arrangement with the Treasurer that tho latter is to be at liberty
to vote against the sixth clause of the Bill, to speak against it, and to do
his utmost against it; thus during the debate we shall have tho novel spectacle
presented of part of the Cabinet urging tho Bill on the acceptance of the
Collective Wisdom, and the other part, as represented by Mr Stuart, denouncing
it; such is the last phase of matters political and not a very, dignified one.
I hear almost daily, and in a manner that cannot be entirely
ignored, the possibility of a speedy change.
May
it come quickly the country is quite full of Mr Robertson for ' this present.'
A Government submitting a bill which they do not believe in themselves'!
**Did you hear
of the 'little game' of the Premier, anent the Chief Under Secretary.- The latter
gentleman is getting £800 a year, and having been a long time in the service is
entitled to retire upon a pension of eleven-twelfths of his salary— about £700.
So far so
good, but ' Honest John ' brings a proposal to Parliament to incise his screw
to £1000; during the debate it transpired that if the increase were voted the Under
'Secretary would then retire on a
pension of £900 a year. A rosy little game, wasn't it.
I need hardly tell you the increase was rejected by the House, and in such a manner as to cause the Premier to withdraw all other proposed
increases without discussion.
**A story
comes to me from Newcastle: — there was a brilliant sunset the other night.
After the sun had gone down, a black cloud massed in the north-west was touched
along the edges with n vivid crimson light.
‘It might be
the battlements of such a city as ancient Troy,' said a dreamy-looking citizen
on the wharf; but, alas, for the justice of things in this mundane, sphere;
“Just then someone slung a bad orange which took him in the
month, and for ten minutes after he was loudly declaiming his ability to bet a
pound he could ' lick any man in the crowd.
**With
reference to the discovery of human remains in the interior, which were
supposed to be these of Leichardt’s party, a letter has been published in the '
Inquirer,' from the. ‘Resident magistrate of Greenough district with further
details, and in the same paper, Mr John Forrest states that he has come to the
following conclusions : —
He thinks tho camp visited was one of
Austin's exploring expedition in 1854, and that the remains are those of some
of his horses that died of poison at Poison Rock, or the remains of some native
who has been eaten.
When Mr Forrest ' himself was out he could' find no trace of
any whites having ever visited that part, and he further states that having often
studied the chances of the fate of Leichhardt, he has come to the conclusion
that if we ever hear of the discovery of his remains it will not be in the
western but in the eastern half of Australia.
**I shall probably
in my next give you an account of the opening debate on the Schools Bill.
JETSAM.
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