The advance Australia

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N 059.4 ADV
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Melbourne : F. Davison, 1897-
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Vol. 02 No. 11 (7 Dec 1898)
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THE Advance Australia 1
Advertising 1
No title 1
SHOULD OTHERS THAN AUSTRALIAN NATIVES BE ADMITTED TO THE A.N.A.? 1
CLIFTON HILL BRANCH. 1
Advertising 1
A RELIC OF THE PAST. 2
ALBERT PARK JOTTINGS. 2
MALDON BRANCH. 2
BALLARAT EAST BRANCH. 2
BRANXHOLME. 2
RUTHERGLEN BRANCH. 2
PRAHRAN BRANCH. 2
QUEENSCLIFF BRANCH. 2
NEWSTEAD BRANCH. 2
HERBERT SPENCER. 3
“LISTEN TO MY TALE OF WOE.” 3
TECHNICAL EDUCATION SERIES. 3 , 4
ALBERT PARK BRANCH. 4
ALLSPICE. 4
COBURG BRANCH. 4
CASTERTON BRANCH. 4
SURREY HILLS BRANCH. 4
WILL-POWER. AN OVERTRUE NARRATIVE. 5
NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS. BY NO. 4. 5
NOTES FROM W.A. ESPERANCE BRANCH, NO. 3. 5
FREMANTLE BRANCH. 5
Advertising 5
DE ROUGEMONT. 6
Advertising 6
THE 1899 CONFERENCE. 7
FACTS. 7
METROPOLITAN COMMITTEE. 7
NOTES ON THE DISCOVERY BY CAPTAIN COOK OF THE EASTERN COAST OF NEW HOLLAND (Australia). 8 , 9
MORE A.N.A. DEFICIENCIES. 9
Advertising 9
CRIBBED. 9
LOVE'S WITCHERIES. 9
Advertising 9
UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES. 10
DIMBOOLA BRANCH. 10
BRANCH AUDITING. 10
Advertising 10
MEETING OF ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE DELEGATES. 11
Advertising 11
BRIGHTON BRANCH. 11
ELSTERNWICK BRANCH. 11
CLIFTON HILL BRANCH. 11
NEANGAR (EAGLEHAWK) BRANCH. 11
Advertising 11
Correspondence. REPRESENTATION OF SMALL BRANCHES AT CONFERENCE. 12
TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 12
AUSTRALIA FOR THE AUSTRALIANS? 12
Advertising 12
TO On the anniversary of a trip to the Bulli Pass. 12
SALE BRANCH. 12
BALLARAT CITY BRANCH. 12
VANITAS. 12
NOTES ON FITZROY V. MALVERN DEBATE. 13
ALLENDALE BRANCH. 13
ELMORE BRANCH. 13
HOPETOUN BRANCH. 13
WARRNAMBOOL BRANCH. 13
CHILTERN BRANCH. 13
PRESTON BRANCH. 13
Advertising 13 , 14
NATHANIEL NEWCOME’S NOTIONS. 14
Advertising 14
KYNETON BRANCH. 15
SWAN HILL BRANCH. 15
WARRAGUL BRANCH. 15
GARFIELD BRANCH. 15
MALVERN BRANCH. 15
EGERTON BRANCH. 15
COLLING WOOD BRANCH. 15
BACCHUS MARSH BRANCH. 15
RICHMOND BRANCH. 15
WINDERMERE BRANCH. 15
SANDHURST BRANCH. 15
TRENTHAM BRANCH. 15
CHELTENHAM BRANCH. 15
PYRAMID HILL. 15
Advertising 15
ESPERANCE (W.A.) BRANCH. 16
ST. KILDA BRANCH. 16
KOROIT BRANCH. 16
STAWELL BRANCH. 16
Advertising 16
NHILL BRANCH. 16
CARLTON BRANCH. 16
Advertising 16
BOARD MEETING. 16
Advertising 16

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THE  

Advance Australia  

YOL. 11., No. 11.  

DECEMBER 7, 1898.  

3s. 6d. per annum, post free.  

JEFFERY  

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Dr. Gresswell, Chairman of  

Board of Health, Dr,  

Springthorpe, and  

C. R. Blackett, Esq.  

Government Analyst  

SPRING ST., Opposite Treasury. MELBOURNE.  

J. JEFFERY,  

Patent FILTER Maker,  

89 SPRING ST., MELB.  

By Special Appointment to his Excellency the  

Earl of Hopetoun.  

DR. GRESSWELL  

President of the Board of  

Public Health,  

REPORTS that  

OUT and OUT the  

Best Filters  

are  

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OF SPRING STREET, MELBOURNE.  

T. CRAIN  

Carriage Buggy Hanufacturer,  

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Vehicles of every description. New or Second  

Hand. Exchanges Made  

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Established 1854.  

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PUBLISHED MONTHLY.  

133 BOURKE STREET, MELBOURNE.  

Business Manager— FRED. DAVISON.  

Subscription: —3s. 6d per annum, in advance, post free to pri-  

vate address.  

For Advertisement Rates, and all other information, apply to  

the Business Manager —Fred. Davison, 133 Bourke Street Mel-  

bourne.  

We will be glad to receive items of news and reports of branch  

meetings, especially front the Country Branches. Such lepoits will  

tend to keep our members more in touch with each other, and  

promote friendly intercourse in manner that must be beneficial to  

the Association.  

Contributions, on National or Association topics, sent to the  

Editor, care of our Business Manager, will receive careful attention,  

and will find place in our columns, should the subject be deemed  

of sufficient importance.  

“ Fling out the Hag, let her flap and rise  

With the rush of the eager air,  

With the ring of the wild swan’s wing  

As she flies from the swamp and her reedy lair.  

Fling out the flag, and let friend or foe  

Behold, for gain or loss,  

The Sign of our Faith and fight we fight—  

The Stars of the Southern Cross.”  

SHOULD OTHERS THAN AUSTRALIAN  

NATIVES BE ADMITTED  

TO THE A.N.A.?  

BY R. F. TOUTCHER.  

have read with some interest —and must confess  

with some pleasure, too —the article contributed by Mr.  

A. J. Macdonald on the above subject. As an essay on  

“ Imperialism ” or “ Westminster Abbey,” it is very fine  

but, though excelling in literary quality, it fails, as far  

as argument is concerned, to deal with the question at  

issue. The Australian aspect—the only one with which  

we are dealing —has been completely lost sight of in the  

wide sweep of sentimentalism indulged in by the  

writer.  

“ The Imperialist, or Britisher,” to quote Mr. Mac-  

donald, “ extends his patriotism to include every pro-  

vince of the British Empire, and is exceedingly anxious  

to extend it to include our great kinsmen of the United  

States of America.” The extensive survey of the Im-  

perialist, his desire for power, and his respect for  

strength, are no evidences of pure patriotism. The  

human mind, broad as it is in some cases, is too narrow  

to take within its compass all the vastness of so extend-  

ed an Empire.  

Generate, first, love for Australia in the “ Little  

Australian,” and thereafter by slow degrees you may  

extend his patriotism. But if he does not love the  

land that gave him birth, is it possible that he can love  

that land upon which his eyes have never looked If  

travel is necessary to beget an Empire Patriotic"!, then  

Mr. Macdonald practically admits that my contention  

is correct.  

Equality also is essential to the growth of sturdy  

patriotism, and Australia does not wish to be merely  

joint in the Imperial tail.  

The “ Little Englander ” has, by successive stages  

extended his patriotism in proportion to the widening  

of the Empire. The Association is tc-day cultivating  

that patriotism which, struck deep root in the native  

soil will, as time goes on, produce mighty tree whose  

branches will extend over that vast expanse which the  

flight of “Imperial” fancy has taken.  

On questions essentially “British” there should be  

no division among the sons of the Empire nor, for the  

matter of that, among the Anglo-Saxon race, but are  

there not questions essentially Australian awaiting  

their determination at our hands and, as such, do  

not touch at any point beyond the limits of our sea-girt  

land. Remote from the great centre of the Empire, we  

are the inheritors of new land—a land with all the  

freshness and vigor of youth, and as distinct in its char-  

ade) istics as youth is to age. In this, the transitional  

moment of our national existence, happy it is for our  

present and future that such an Association as ours  

exists. The “ Little Australians ” can, through the  

medium of their national organisation, stamp their  

genius on the history of their country, as did many of  

the “ Little Englanders ” who now lie “ sleeping the  

“long, last sleep of all in Westminster Abbey.” As the  

Association extends its sphere of usefulness and its  

power for good over the vast Australian Continent it  

can, by wise guidance, unity of purpose, and honesty  

of effort, be made the determining factor in solving  

those great human questions which are now with us,  

and those that at present are in the womb of time, and  

which the future has yet to reveal.  

In my humble judgment, Australia’s sons have yet to  

play their greatest part on the stage of their own  

country. To fashion its destiny with their own hands,  

to mould its character with the true spirit of national  

life, and thus to prepare it as nation mighty and great  

to play its part in the theatre of the world’s affairs, are  

to my mind the noblest ideals that we can set ourselves  

as worthy of realisation, and as such peculiarly adapted  

to cause us to reflect whether it would be wise cr un-  

wise to link others than native-born in that great  

national chain which we have been so long forging to  

encircle the sons of Australia.  

It is hardly necessary to argue seriously against Bishop  

Thornton’s aspersions of Australian character. It would  

be difficult to find score of persons in Victoria who  

hold that the Australian is anything like as black as he  

has been painted by Samuel Ballarat. True, vice  

in our midst, and will continue to exist until the  

crack of doom —for, as Mark Twain says, “There’s  

“ deal of human nature about mankind,” and human  

nature is considerably lop-sided. The Australian is  

only the average human, with the average human’s  

share of good and bad qualities.  

“ Those who seek shall find.” The Bishop has been  

seeking and has found but he has left out of account  

the vast deal of kindliness, sobriety, honesty, and man-  

liness that exist—for which he did not seek, and con-  

sequently did not find.  

CLIFTON HILL BRANCH.  

The following are the results of the half-yearly elections of the  

above branch, held on 29th November. Mr. A. Brooks occupied  

the chair. Mr. Purves, y.c., installed the officers.  

President, W. P. Roberts vice-president, W. J. Field treasurer,.  

H. Fluck secretary, T. J. McKernan assistant-secretary, C. O.  

Marschner delegate to dispensary, J. Oration press correspon-  

dent, C. O. Marschner librarian, G. Gordon committee, H.  

Knell, F. Holt, W. J. Skewes, R. Clemenger, W. T, O’Brien Met-  

ropolitan Committee delegates, R. Clemenger, W. J. Skewes, W. P.  

Roberts auditors, A. Laver and H. Laver delegates to Con-  

ference, T. J. McKernan and W. J. Skewes.  

During the evening, the presentation of handsome black mar-  

ble clock was made to E. H. Smith, the retiring treasurer, who>  

had filled that office for eight years in succession. The testi-  

monial was subscribed by the members as token of high appre-  

ciation and confidence in which Mr. Smith was universally held  

both as member and officer.  

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