Tt is distinctly curious that laws made two centuries ago should be the protection of motor-yond-sers. to-day.
is actually what results from [circular instructions sent out Andre ardiew, Minister of Public Works, to the Prefects throughout! the country. He draws their atten tion to the necessity for cutting, down hedges, shrubs or trees growing close to the high road in such manner as to interfere with visibility. Former! allowed. to have hed of the algo of a public road, bu this regulation has fallen into' dis sharp turns ave hidden from view and cidents happen.
Henceforth, if orders are carried out, there must be a clear field on the roadside for at least 50 yards on either side of a sharp bend, level-erossing or corner. Landowners who neglect to comply with the Pr feet's requirements will be subjected to the penalties made and vided by the Order in Council. made on June 37, 1721, when Louis XV waz a little boy, and the Royal decree of August 4. 1731. These enactments are still force, though road traffic in 1928 does not at all resemble what it was in the days of Louis the Wul-Beloved.
Mes, Susannah Crane, for' [seven years an inmate of Edmonton Workhouse, who was 101 recently, has had her hair' bobbed. sioned the Kellogg Pact to abolish war. variations, the supply of Labi and other causes. In 1915, the second year of the war, tie country produced only. 20,400,803 hectolitres (the heetolitre is about 22 gallons). Another bad year was 1910, when all. the rivers rose and rear tracts of land were flooded. The average of the ten years from 1917 to 1926 was 2,000,000 hectolitres, and some good judges think that this year's figure sill not be below 54,000,000.
The cereal crops, we are told, will mot be abundant but th quality is good, and it would therefore appear that, in regard to the two principal products of the soil, Nature has not been too unkind to the French agriculturists this year and that an appreciable addition to the wealth of the country will be made, Wine producers have the satisfaction of knowing that a good crop this year will not have much effect on prices, for 1926 was a. poor yer and 1927 was not much berg district and although an employer of Kanakas took a prominent Jead in the abolition of that class of labour in his district Mr. B, H. Corscr, a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and a son of the dead member is to contest his father's seat at the by-election which will be he a few weeks. The death of Senator Thomas Givens, who for so long had been President of the Senate, left a vacancy which under: the Constitution is filled by the election of a senator by ballot of both Houses of the State parliament. As Queensland possesses only oni House—the Assembly—a vote is taken of its members. Mr. J. V.
MacDonald, an ex-Senator, was elected at the ballot. Mr." Mac-
Donald was, on his previous oceasion, elected by ballot to the Senate in July 1922, but his term in that House was ridiculously short. The general elections were held in December. of the same year and Mr. MacDonald suffered defeat, coming, fifth at the poll 7 Mushroom Growth The romance of a small farming township named—Tulibigeal, situated on Lake Cargellic, in New South Wales, recalls the old mining days when towns and cities sprang up in-a few weeks or months, The only difference in this case io that the growth of the township wil be permanent for it depends "upon Wheat growing for its wealth. In 1923 Tullibigeal was inhabited by only five persona, yet to-day there so that stocks are small.
Everything is thus for the best, except as regards the unfortunate The value of the mineral produc on for the vay just closed. wa The ide wae a record for the State being £36,207)
ports were valued at #17= and imports at £17,250,6
The revenue and expenditare for the y year were respectively of 807.949 and £9,884,415 deficit. of £26,406, Another increase is to be found the Savings Bank deposits. This in keeping with the other States where marked increases have been noticeable in recent years both in the number of depositors and the amounts. deposited, ical Director's Sudden De Eenno Scherek, the musical rector of the new Comedy Theatre in Melbourne, was discovered dead in w lavatory at the theatre after the completion of the performanas, by the Vanbrugh-Boucicault corns many of "The High Road,". on the night of August 2. The dead man had been a leading musician in Mel~ bourne musie circles for nearly 40 years. He was 74 years of ave and had complained of illness in the early part of the evening and had retired from active participa. tion in the performance. Two el body am ners. diveovered his hou after the theatre hud clos Mr. Scherek, under pen namey composed much music and original, ly came to Australia from Manta, pianist for the violinist Cornelia Ursa, As a pianist and her of music he vas noted throughout Australia, Hig transfer, to the new Comedy Theatre wes made by the firm of J, C. William son as a compliment for his excep=, tional talent and his long service' with that company.
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