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Show REVIVAL OF.AUSTRALfX V . Australia, that has been, under a cloud for a decade, de-cade, is fast coming to the front now. The awful drought that wellnigh burned up the great island for. fire years has'been broken;..' great; crops are planted; some superb irrigation, works are being rushed that will vastly increase the area that an be profitably cultivated j new mines are being discovered dis-covered and many old'ones by new appliances are yielding better than when they were first worked. . Australia is not much. bothered by, labor troubles, trou-bles, and the laws are enforced in the English Btyle, promptly and effectually. : Then Australia has a great new trade with the Philippines and her' people peo-ple are more hopeful than they have been before since the old Broken Hill days, r : ( , |