Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-27

ment. There are eighteen of them teaching
almost every branch of science, trade and
photography, wood-turning and pattern
making, metal working, plumbing and gas
fitting, carpentry, coach building, wool
sorting. painting and sign writing, tailor
cutting, bootmaking, cooking, dressmaking
and needle work. All sorts of manual
training is taught and everything in the
way Of engineering.
The technical schools Of New South Wales
have quite as broad q curriculum, the
branches of wool sorting and wool CHASING,
architecture and agriculture being especial
ly good.
Australian Newspapers.
The newspapers show that there is no
lack of intelligence among the Australians
About a thousand are published on the
continent and in New Zealand, including
the magazines and trade journals. In Mel
bourne and suburbs alone $50 magazines
and newspapers are published. and fully
as many. 1 should say, In Sydney. The
Melbourne Age has about 100000 circula-
ton, and the Argus is good second. The
Sydney Herald is taken in all parts OF
everywhere. Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth
have both morning and afternoon dailies,
and, In fact, there Is scarcely town on
the continent which has not four or more
papers. The leading society papers are the
Sydney Bulletin and the Melbourne Punch.
Table Talk. Critic and the Sun. The lead
ing dailies have big Saturday editions of
many pages, which sell at II cents copy,
going out by mail to all parts of the col
onies.
There are all sorts of agricultural jour
nails, sheep journals and financial journals.
The Review of Reviews has an Australian
edition. and there are local editions of the
Illustrated London News and Sketch.
The Australian dailies. as rule, are less
sensational than the American newspapers.
and are more lively than the English news
papers. Nearly all have good advertising
patronage, the shipping advertisements
alone supplying from three to five columns
daily, and the auction sales in many cases
covering page.
Something About the Colleges.
1 went out the other day to visit the
Sydney University. 1t has about 1000 stu
dents of both sexes. 1t gives degrees of
art. science. law and medicine. and Its
studies embrace all branches except theol-
ogy. Its graduates are received at
Oxford and Cambridge on an equal
footing with those of the English
schools. 1t Is the same with the
has already conferred about 1000 degrees
In addition there universities in Queens
land and South Australia, well as nu-
merous colleges supported by the various
religious denominations.
A Ship Reform school.
Here in Sydney the government has q
nautical schoolship which it uses as a re-
form school. Upon it some $50 boys are
put through a regular course of education
and training. They have the. studies Of the
common schools, and at the same tine are
drilled 50 that they are fit to be efficient
sailors when they leave. The ship Is called
the ''Sobraon,'' and it is as well equipped
as. school training ships anywhere The
boys also have land quarters on one of the
islands of the bay, and altogether they are
well treated and as a rule are made into
good men by their training. They have
their cricket grounds, their swimming pools
and all sorts of games. They are taught to
swim and are put through daily course
of gymnastic exercises. They wash their
own clothes, keep the ship in order, but do
no contract work of an industrial character
After leaving they are apprenticed 20 FARM
ers or business men in different parts of
New South Wales and the reports from
these are that they do exceedingly well So
far as / can learn the school is success
and has been so ever since 1t was organ
lied, now about thirty-five years ago
Dairy Schools.
like the way these Australians organize
new schools when they have any speciality
they wish to develop. Within the past few
years instruction has been given in dairy
ing and cheesemaking, and the govern
ments have been doing all they can to build
up this business. The result is that there
are now number of large butter and
cheese factories in every state and the ex-
ports of these articles are rapidly increas-
ing. Victoria is now making something
like 30,o00, 900 pounds of butter and 1000 900
pounds of cheese annually New South
Wales made last year over 10000 600 pounds
of butter and 100000 pounds of
cheese. There are now more than 400 900
dairy cows in New South Wales, which