r4 PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. m«'-^'' J. wis- 



Canada, having the honour of being the get it from the hmited vocabulary of 

 hrst. From it officers will be gradu- the bushmen, a race no one delights 

 ated into the ships of the Australian to honour? If Canberra is to be aban- 

 Navy. As Captain Chambers, the doned it should onl}- be in favour of t 

 Commandant of the College, pointed name which is in some wa}- connected 

 out, we can build a Dreadnought with the founding of the Common- 

 in twent\"-four months, but it takes wealth. No one took so prominent a 

 ten }'ears of arduous training to part as to be regarded as its creator, 

 produce an officer capable of com- We had no need of a Washington to 

 manding her. Australia is building bring our nation into being, so in 

 the ships, she is now beginning to build uaming our capital we have not the 

 the men. To judge from the twent\- advantage of our American cousins, 

 eight cadet-midshipmen now studying Melbourne was called after Lord Mel- 

 at the College, she has splendid mate- bourne, who happened to be Prime 

 rial at her command. It was gratif>- Minister of Great Britain when the city 

 ing to learn from Lord Deninan that ^^as founded, just as Sydney had been 

 the Australian cadets being trained in named after Lord Sydney 49 years 

 England are doing so splendidl\-, and earlier. Why not follow these exam- 

 that New Zealand w^U probabl>- send ples and perpetuate in the new city 

 boys to the Australian College. The the name of the famous statesman who 

 cost of training is Iwrne by the Com- \\as at the head of the Imperial Gov- 

 monwealth, and the boys are carefully ernment when Federation was consum- 

 selected from a very large number of mated, and call it "Salisbury"? The 

 candidates. Command of the sea must city of Salisbur\- in the old country has 

 become as vital to Australia as it now played a prominent part in the histor\' 

 is to Britain, that secure, other defen- of the race, in some respects its re- 

 sive preparation sink into comparative nown was second only to that of Win- 

 insigniftcance. It is good to know Chester in mediaeval history ; whilst 

 that adequate provision will soon be the men who have borne that name 

 made at Jervis Ba\' for training man\- have always played a large part in Im- 

 more naval officers than Osborne House perial affairs from the da>s of Eliza- 

 can accommodate. The ceremony, beth to those of Victoria. The man who 

 trivial in itself, was >et the visible sign first discovered Australia is not known, 

 of Australia's determination to man- Those who left records of their visits, 

 fully do her share in the defence of the De Torres and Pelsart, were not Bn- 

 Empire. tish explorers, and nether Dampier nor 

 The Bush Capital. ^^""^^ Flinders nor Phillips was suft^- 

 The spot where the Federal Capital cientl\- outstanding to warrant his 

 is to be created iiaving been finalh- being sponsor to Australia's new capi- 

 tixed upon, the name of the new cit\- is ^^^ ^"t Salisbur\- would be a good 

 now troubling our politicians and ^^ame if Canberra must be relin- 

 others throughout the Commonwealth, q^^^hed. 

 Yass is, of course, an impossibihty. a South Seas Novelist, 

 but Canberra is surely better than an\ The deatii oi Louis Becke. whose 

 other that could be invented, and it books, more than any other novehst. 

 has the great advantage of being actu- have identified him with the poetry and 

 ally the true name of the spot. If a romance of the South Seas, occurred 

 new name is to be found, why try and in Sydney, on Februarv i8th'. He died 



