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Show HARD TIMES IN AUSTRALIA. k Great Incret.se In Crime and oestltntiut Due to Industrial Depression. Advices from Australia by the steamer Warrimoo show an alarming increase ir. casualties, crimes and acute distress The police are unable to cope with Cm perate housebreakers, who swarm in th; large cities. A few that have been ar rested give a3 an excuse that fan.'.n-drove fan.'.n-drove them to deeds of violence. Sever:, of the policemen attacked by burglars Sydney are dying. The survivors L;;v been promoted and given bonuses by K George Gibbs. On ono day last week at Sydney, K Hides a score of petty robberies, the cir iiospital was robbed of all its valuable by nurses. Mercredie & Drew, mam facturers, were robbed ef $50,000 by e:. ployeea. F. Coxon, merchant, was rob: by an employee of a large eum. Thrt young women succeeded in passu.-.' .-number .-number of counterfeit checks. Churie. Graham, a postoffice clerk, embezti-$200 embezti-$200 from the postoffice. The government's claim is that the ui. employed problem is too complicated v solve. In Sydney $500 each week i: 6pent in aiding 500 families. Five thou sand men in South Australia have askee the governor to call a special session oi parliament to discuss means to aid them. The governor ref U8ed. Then they waited on Premier Kingston, but the preraiei would promise nothing. Ho told them that though they were in want of food they had refused to break 1$ yards of rock per week for rations, and he could do no more. The delegation said they would not break rock for food alone. Thousands are sleeping in the open air, and several have Btarved to death. At Bourke, Afghans and Europeans quar-.reled quar-.reled over a division of labor, and a bloody row occurred. The most tragic suicides out of 98 in one week, directly the result of hard times, are: F. W. Wilson, Wil-son, the biscuit manufacturer of Brisbane, Bris-bane, shot himself; "William O'Connor, lodger in the European hotel, Melbourne, jumped from the f onrtL 3tory and dashed his brains out on the pavement; Kate Brooks, a pretty English girl, starving, got drunk and killed herself with poison; Joseph Bancroft, a miner out of work, 6aid goodby to his family and exploded a cartridge in his mouth. San Francis |
