The bulletin

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NX 252
Created/Published
Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
Issue
Vol. 2 No. 24 (10 Jul 1880)
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Contents

THE BULLETIN 1
Hospitals in Cities. 1
Police Rewards. 1
Manufactures and Agriculture. 1
The Right Revd. Bishop Barker, D.D. 1 , 2
LATE SPORTING. 2
Betting. 2
Gympie Races. FIRST DAY. 2
Cobar Races. 2
Clarence River Races. 2
The Late Richard Driver. 2
To-Day's Issue of “The Bulletin” 2
Our Portrait of Bishop Barker 2
The Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society. 2
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. 2
THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. 2 , 3
The Australian Auction and Furniture Mart. 3
BRIEF MENTION. 4
The London “Referee” on Australian Sporting Affairs. 4
SPORTING. Index to Races to Come. 5
Turf Talk. 5
Coursing. 5
Sporting and Athletic Mems. 6
List of Horses at Work at Randwick. 6
Cricket. 6
Football. 6
Pigeon Shooting. 6
Pedestrianism. 6
Kensington Park Races. 6
ENGLISH SPOUTING. 6 , 7
NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. 7
STAGE GOSSIP. 7
The Manager’s Dream. 7
DENOMINATIONAL DROPS. 8
The Kelly Gang and the Queen's Theatre. 8
Facetiae of the Blue Mountains. 8
WOMAN ITEMS. 8
If you Love Me, tell me so. 8
OEN-AND-INK SKETCHES. (Written for THE BULLETIN.) XV.—THE ACTRESS. 8
ORIGINAL VERSE. (Written Expressly for THE BULLETIN.) The Barmaid. 9
A Mother’s Wail. (AN EPISODE OF THE LANCASHIRE DISTRESS). 9
The Larrikin. 9
MELBOURNE FOLLIES. 9
LOVE'S NET. A SONNET. 9
FUN AND FANCY. 9
No title 9
Hay Jockey Club Races. July 3. 9
Victorian Amateur Turf Club Races. Thursday July 1. 9
Blackall. Ist Day—July 1. 9
ADRIENNE: A LOVE STORY OF The Lancashire Cotton Distress. BOOK I.—PRIDE AND PLENTY. CHAPTER XII.—Continued. 10
Agents for The Bulletin. SYDNEY: 10
Advertising 10
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PERSONAL ITEMS. 13
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THE BULLETIN  

Vol. 2.— Wo. 24.  

SYDNEY, SATURDAY, JUDY 10, 1880.  

Price—3d.  

§wlktin.  

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1880.  

Hospitals in Cities.  

At St, Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, is  

dead-house, and in close proximity to that dead-  

house is row of private dwellings, the owner  

whereof, judging from various reports which have  

appeared in the papers and from petition for  

which he is at present procuring signatures, is  

sorely troubled. Tenants, when first they take  

possession of the dwellings in question, rather  

like the situation; but the sight of the dead-  

house, of which charming view can apparently  

be obtained from the adjoining balconies, and the  

hospital drainage, which is described as being  

malodorous in the extreme, frighten them away.  

The proprietor seeks the aid of the local residents  

in endeavouring to obtain redress of what is un-  

doubtedly substantial grievance. St. Vincent’s  

Hospital is reputfdly well-managed institution  

in most regards, and it is not too much to expect  

of its authorities that the drainage will at once  

be improved, and that any slight defect in the  

mortuary arrangements will be remedied, so that  

in future offence may be given to no one. How-  

ever, we are among those who regard  

with disfavour the old-world system  

of confining within the boundaries  

of city the whole of its hospital  

accommodation. We hope soon to  

hear of the conductors of St. Vin-  

cent’s being in position to estab-  

lish first-class hospital in locality  

which will give patients the benefit  

of pure air, Nature’s most potent  

medicine. Our idea is that no hos-  

pital patients should ever breathe  

the tainted atmosphere of the  

city but those whose removal to the  

country severe accident or sudden  

and violent illness precludes. We  

are sOrryjto see that large hospital  

is to be built on the site of the old  

Infirmary, and that the ordinary  

class of patients will continue to be  

domiciled amidst noise and dust  

and bad air, instead of being passed  

on from receiving hospital into  

the country. If politicians would  

only see the sick poor located on  

the ascent to the Blue Mountains  

—not necessarily near their own  

private residences —the efforts of  

the hospital doctors would not so  

often be in vain.  

Police Rewards.  

After reign of some wo years in  

Strathbogie, the “king of the ranges”  

and his fellows have at length shared  

the fate of all outlaws and it is  

remarkable fact that this end was  

arrived at just before the expiration  

°f the period during which the  

reward remained available. Different  

opinions have existed from the first  

as to the propriety of offering this  

reward in the Assembly Mr.  

Fitzpatrick, as will be remembered,  

objected on behalf of the Opposition  

°n the ground of its probable de-  

moralising effect on the police. And  

now public opinion seems to have  

decided, in view of some of the inci-  

dents attending the suppression of  

the outlaws, that bis prediction has  

been fairly verified. The circum-  

stances are too fresh in the minds  

of readers to require recapitulation  

hero, and the conduct of the police  

ln the matter has already been fully  

commented on. It is universally a-  

greod that their attitude throughout,  

with few exceptions, was apparently  

bat of men who were conserving  

their energies for the future advo-  

cation of their respective claims to  

baro of the £B,OOO and saving their  

manly forms intact for its better  

enjoyment. Now we have too high  

sense of the value of the force as  

whole, both in this colony and in Victoria, to desire  

to see reckless imprudence shown in the discharge  

ofsuch hazardous undertaking as that under  

notice. But we cannot help thinking at the  

same time, that had the police engaged lit  

Glenrowan on Monday last displayed as much  

self-abnegation for the sake of duty—and be it  

added, as much physical courage—as the clergy-  

man who figured so creditably to himself on the  

scene, the vindication of justice would have  

lost much of that element of the humiliating and  

undignified which has unfortunately character-  

ised it in connection with the long delayed fate  

of the Strathbogie bushrangers. We have no  

sympathy with the outlaws —they chose the  

manner of their own death. Nor do we charge  

the police with cowardice, for after Mr. Hare  

was wounded they had no capable commander.  

Men, like sheep, only want leader. The men  

were there; the leader was absent.  

Manufactures and Agriculture.  

Pekhax the most striking feature of the social  

polity of the colonies is to be found in the  

manner of the distribution of the population.  

Formed into agglomerations more or less  

large, our people seem to prefer the mutual  

intercourse and traffic of the township to the less  

exciting but more productive and ultimatelv  

satisfactory industry of agriculture. The  

traveller in the interior cannot fail to remark  

the neglect which allows the prolific acres around  

him to lie fallow, while in the larger towns on  

his route many amongst the working classes,  

alarmed for the future of their order, earnestly  

advocate Protection to native industries, vainly  

thinking that guarantee of employment may thus  

be afforded to those destined to succeed thorn.  

Our object is not now to discuss the merits of  

this proposal us compared with free-trade  

policy, for we think that New South Wales has  

made up its mind on that point. We would  

point out, however, that even in those countries  

where the controversy has been decided in favour  

of the former, the question was only opened  

when the soil was occupied to its utmost capacity  

by an energetic yeomanry, and when emigration  

had been perforce resorted to, to strain off the  

excessive population. We hold that the natural  

field for the manhood of any country is the soil,  

and we cannot therefore admit that the only way  

to assure the comfort of the working ordei’s of  

the community is by establishing such industries  

as will tend to encourage that tendency towards  

centralisation to which we have alluded. In the  

face of our sparsely-populated country districts,  

and with such an ever-present outlet for energy  

and good-will as they afford, it should be  

patent absurdity to speak of looming danger to  

the working classes. We nevertheless agree, to  

certain extent, with those alarmists who are not  

satisfied with the outlook from the existing  

state of things. It is trite axiom with political  

economists that that state alone is flourishing  

which car,boast vigorous agricultural element;  

and that the realm, however apparently prosper-  

ous, of which the population is almost entirely  

given up to mechanical and trading occupations,  

is devoid of the very back-bone of endurance, and  

fated to collapse under the first serious pressure  

of the inevitable vicissitudes of trade. The  

knowledge of these facts should tend to shako  

that sense of security which many are now  

content to entertain. It will bo obvious, too,  

that no scheme of Protection would bo sufficient  

to meritj the exigencies of the case. The only  

trustworthy preventive of future distress is to bo  

secured by the proper utilisation of the soil.  

Hence it is apparent that, were the land laws so  

framed and administered as really to encourage  

the settlement of bona-Jide agriculturists through-  

out the colony, much of the prospective difficulty  

now exercising the minds of the thoughtful  

would be permanently obviated. Our misfortune  

is, not that some of us are unable to make money,  

but that many of us want to become rich without  

working.  

The Right Revd. Bishop Barker, D.D.  

Although worldly-minded men may, in moments  

of mundane hilarity, talk lightly about ecclesi-  

astics, particularly of those who have reached  

the highest positions, still in their inner conscious-  

ness these very individuals entertain real respect  

for all who zealously devote themselves to the  

moral elevation of society. It is impossible for  

any civilized being not to admire earnestness and  

sincerity, however much the motives that bring  

both into action may be objected to or suspected.  

There is certainly something repugnant to the  

secular mind in the apparently mock humility  

which says, nolo e.piscopari after  

“ letters patent ” have been granted,  

or “rescript”— smhannulopiscatorLs  

—has been issued from Rome. It is  

best perhaps to rely on the legal  

maxim— de inter nix non judicandvm  

est —and not attempt to plumb or  

fathom men’s thoughts or too nar-  

rowly scan their motives and it is,  

therefore, more pleasing task to  

judge the heads of the Churches  

rather as leading citizens than as  

learned divines. It is in this liberal  

spirit that wo shall from time to  

time survey the most prominent  

amongst them in these southern  

latitudes, and endeavour to point  

out those traits of character which  

evoke admiration or reverence (or  

compound of both) from largo  

sections of the Australasian people.  

Apart from their intellectual attain-  

ments, social status, and exalted  

aims, the higher clergy influence  

community in many ways—politi-  

cally it is said—and said very truly  

of some of them—far in excess of  

what [is good for themselves indi-  

vidually, or the body politic they  

affect. It has been somewhat harshly  

assorted —somewhere —of Bishops,  

that they usually exact the homage  

of “ plenary obsequiousness ” from  

all their followers. That may have  

been true in the past: it will hardly  

boar “sun or shade” in the imme-  

diate future. Dr. Frederic Barker,  

Bishop of Sydney, and Metropolitan  

of Province numbering thirteen  

sees in Australasia, is essentially  

churchman. His great physical  

and mental powers have been almost  

exclusively devoted to the interest  

of the Church of England In New  

South Wales. He has not, liketho  

more intellectnally-robust Dr. Moor-  

house, of Melbourne, ventured on  

that larger platform of social reform  

and enlightened progress which first  

attracts and then wins the attention  

of persons of all sects and of both  

sexes. Bishop Barker has, however,  

been uniformly consistent in his  

views and action. From the day of  

his first incumbency in England to  

this hour—whether in promoting  

synodical action, extending the  

operations of the Church Society,  

completing unfinished ecclesiastical  

edifices, or erecting new ones, sug-  

gesting “ ways and means ” to meet  

the demands on the revenues at his  

disposal, or in organizing Sunday  

Schools and bush missions—ho has  

been from first to last low  

churchman of considerable ability  

and unflagging zeal. Whether his  

engagements have permitted or his  

inclinations led him to devote himself  

much to those apostolic labours  

which consist in visiting the sick,  

consoling the afflicted and relieving  

the poor, wo have no means of learn-  

ing but we assume from what we  

THE EIGHT REVD. BISHOP BARKER, D.D.  

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