Show times hard in australia Auit ralla IL D samuels a relative of the castlo castle brothers who has arrived here from australia tells a striking story of the hard times now prevalent at the antipodes he ha says that iu lK melbourne elbourne a city of 2 there are at leist least az men unemployed and that there are at least in the smaller city of sydney throughout the entire country too hard times P prevail devail head clerks bookkeepers and men of that class accustomed during the boom to getting thirteen pounds or sixty dollars a week now get but two or three pounds a week and ar are a glad to get that america and california above all is now the objective point of tens of thousands in australia but mandof many of them cannot get here they got the man money ey the tha captain of the tha alameda told me he had never in all his bis experience in run running nin to australia I 1 had so BO many applications from men who wanted to get over in one way or another the corn com crop in the great corn district has been injured by the continued rains and this is hard on the people of this region whatever be their vocation the wool crop is pretty good and that is almost the only thing that sheds a ray of light of any kind upon the country real eskut e is dead it has fallen greatly in price and nobody will buy it even at the greatly reduced rate san francisco examiner E |