lite Review of Reviews. 



June, 1912. 



serves the piuiishnieut meted out to him. The man 

 was wrong, very much wrong, and Labour shouM 

 havx.- been glad that justice was meted out to him. 

 And the unions, b}' their action, bespeak their sym- 

 pathy with wrongdoing. But can one wonder? The 

 Prime Minister paraded his approbation of the 

 Qw^'nsland strike, and refu.sed to set in motion 

 machinery to help society that by his oath of office 

 he was lx>und to set going. And the Positmaster- 

 General gives preference to the lawless. One can 

 imagine the howl of rage that would rise if em- 

 ployers tried to violate the foumt of justice in a 

 similar way. But it is well that Labour shnuhl 

 ro\eal its true character. 



Mr. Fisher has at last found a 



,^. banker willing to run his Common- 

 Commonwea'th ,^, ,, , \, r. ..n 



Bank. wealth Bank, Mr. Dennison .Millar. 



assistant to the General Manager of 

 the Bank of New South Wales, at a salary of _£4ooo 

 a year. This is ^1000 more than Mr. Fisher 

 offered, but since Mr. Millar's appointment, Mr. 

 Fisher says that he would have l)een willing to 

 enter into negotiations from men who wanted up to 

 _;^io,ooo a year. It was a curious kind of com- 

 ment to make, and made one wonder whether Mr. 

 Fisher's fixture of salary was made in a propor- 

 tionate sen.se from a ^10,000 mark as the high- 

 water of efficiency. At any rate, to spare the feel- 

 ings of the appointee, it would better have been left 

 unsaid. 



Ft is not exaggerating the situation 



A Wonderful to say that on the 24th of the month 



Gift. Australia gaped with astonishment 



when it read of the great gift of 

 _;£i,ooo.ooo which had iDeen made to the public 

 by Mrs. Hall, wife of the late Mr. W. R. H.ill, 

 the Australian millionaire, who died last year. Mr. 

 Hall left a fortune of about _;^2, 400,000, and made 

 numerous bequests to charity ; but Mrs. Hall has 



done .sonitthing which will make the name of her 

 husband live as long as Australia remains a nation. 

 The amount is to be divided between the States of 

 New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. New 

 South Wales, as the State in which Mr. Hall re- 

 .sided and made his money, receives ^500,000, and 

 the (fher two States, in which he had held large 

 propertii's, _;^25o,ooo each. The income from the 

 gift, which is in rhe form of gilt-edged securities, is 

 to lie devoted to — i, the relief of poverty; 2, the 

 ad\'ancement of religion according to the tenets of 

 thf Churc'h of England ; 3. the advancement of 

 education ; 4, the bei>efit of the community nnt fall- 

 ing under any of the preceding heads. The ex- 

 ample is one which ought to stimulate other wealthy 

 .\u.s:tralians to act in a similar way during their 

 lifetimes. There have been a few public-spirited 

 men who have given fair amounts to charity, but 

 there has been nothing to be measured against this, 

 e\en in proportion to the wealth of the donor. 

 Moreover, what has been given has been mostly in 

 the way of bequests. But Mrs. Hall's action in 

 giving .so large an amount of money during her 

 lifetime places her munificence above an\ thing in 

 the way of charitable gifts in the history of Austra- 

 lia, Mrs. Hall is evidently a lady whose heart is 

 full of benevolence, for she doubled all the amounts 

 which her late husband had left to his relatives. 



The \\'e.s,t Australian Legi.slative 

 West Australian elections ha\e been held dnring the 

 Council. month, but without an\ change 

 of the position of the jxiHti- 

 cal parties. The Labour Party lost one 

 seat ill the metropolitan suburban pro\-ince, 

 which it has held during the la.st six months. 

 It, howe\er, gained one seat in the gold- 

 fields, which it had never previously held. The 

 L'p])' r Hou.se in West Australia consists of thirty - 

 members, of which six Ix'long to the Labour Party. 



This issue of the "Review " contains the last work of the late Mr. IV. 

 T. Stead. The articles in it are the last literary work he undertook before 

 going to .America. The July issue will be a memorial number. Jf, in 

 consequence of this, the edition is a little later than usual, readers of the 

 "Review of Reviews " will understand. 



