Imperial Governors and the Constitution: How Not to Make Living Cheaper: The Higher Cost of Railways: Shipping Strikers Beaten From Our Own Correspondent.
Melbourne, Feb. 26. the constitution believed that the The Governor-General of Aus-!
States themselves would take the tralia, Lord Forster, who assumed earliest opportunity of remedying office last October, can at least be the defect. said to have somewhat varied the Tue Suippixc Hor Up. usual routine of viceregal activities, First he caught diphtheria, It seems difficult to speak of then he closely associated himself industrial troubles, when there with the visiting English cricket-is no agitation, and public meeting team, being himself an All-Engings are not held nor riotous land veteran, then he bought a harangues delivered. Yet there yacht, and lost a race, and finally are thousands of men and women he strained a knee and has _beca idle, and there must be a good more or less laid up since. If the leal of suffering. However, even Australian is as desperately ad-! the State Labour Governments dicted to sport es some of our! decline specially to help the critics aver, the Governor-General unemployed, and with the excep-should be the most popular man! tion of some minor demonstration in the country. So far, however, by a few score of the more noisy he has had or made no opportunity elements there is a profound! calm. to show any of the qualities of So profound is the calm indeed high statesmanship. that many profess to believe that the precursor of a storm, The arrival of Sir
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