H. M. 8. Kaloomba (Capt. Hewitt) has boon in port about a month. She is filling up vacancies in deck and engine Toom ratings with local recruits. There Places in the nowly-organised branch of is at. prosont no Jack of aspirants for the fest personnel. After a little further detention here she will precesd to Ade. Tecruits will be engaged. Five years is the laid and Fremantle, here "further form of enlistment, The new twin-serow sloop Clio (1,070 tons) has arrived in Sydney to replace the gunboat Sparrow.
The second-class cruiser. Challenger has been commissioned, and left P. mouth carly in May to join the Australian squadron, issued on a° camp of instruction for mounted infantry, commented st on the want of equipment.
Dawson states that he is adopting a policy in ode tohave' an chasing' equipment. "This devisioi will be ping save disflppointitg to' Comiiion—wealth riflemen in view. of the excellent, accounts rendered by the teams. which! during the last two years, have.beon sent to the great meeting! Civil Service Retrenchment 'The N.S. Wales civil servies is in' for abad time. Close ripon 500 officers" of Various grades, and mostly in the Department of Public Works, have had netied to quit. Up till quite recently, when the era of retrenchment has us, the civil service used to and ambition of every young man. The lives of M.L.A's were worried and made miserable by important constituents urging them to get their relatives and hangers-on into the government. Once there, always there, was "the scéopted motto of the service." 'Nowadays thi 'Now ings sre altered, and State 'Treasurers' think
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