I he He view of He views. 



September, 1912. 



Mr. Walt has intiYKhu:r<l a Charities 

 Charity BH] into the Victorian Parliament. 



Administration, j^ provides lor th.- appointment of 

 a Boarrl of three memliei-.s ulio are 

 to have complete control over the admini.vtration of 

 ptiblic I'harities. Religious institiition.s are excepted 

 from their authority. Much excejition i.s being takers 

 by representati\'es of same of the present in.ititutions 

 to their proposal. They think it places too much 

 power in the liands of a fevv paid officials. For 

 ourselves we do not .see much in the difficulty thus 

 rai.sfd. Payment inx'ohes re.sponsibilitv , and men 

 who are set apart as experts for a business like this, 

 and well paiil for th<'ir .services, are likelv to be 

 worth the monev. M<)re<3ver, thev are still an.swer- 

 able to Parliament, anil no Government would long 

 support commissioners in maladministration with the 

 fire of public eritici.sm upon them. This idea has 

 been ad\'Ocaled in the " Review '' for tnanv vears 

 past. It is one of the proposals submitted bv the 

 Social Reform Bureau to the late Sir Thomas Bent 

 when he wa.s Premier, and was favoural:)ly enter- 

 tained b\ him. The need of clo.ser and more com- 

 prehensive control of our manifold charitable actixi- 

 ties is apparent to every observer. There is mueh 

 oxerlajiping. Institutions are exploited in turn by 

 numbers of people. These in.stitutions. being worked 

 separately, and making individual appeal to the 

 public, sometimes get in each other's wav, to the 

 detriment of the cause of charity itself. Of course 

 there will still remain much to do when this Bill is 

 law. There are loafers who go from place to place, 

 electing and apjiealing first to one .set of church 

 and charitable people, and then to another. M'e will 

 still ha\e the drunkard .mil the thriftless. To cope 

 with such farm colonies, or something of the .sort, 

 are needed to which men t-an be compelled to go 

 under certain conditions, and where thev could do 

 work enough to at lea.st earn their kee]). While thev 

 bang about the city their ni.iiii (T>ntrihuti<ins to- 

 wards its life are that the\- draw charitv from the 

 thrifty, and that tli<-y then spend much of it .it the 

 publir-liouse. 



\'ol«d\ was siir])ri.sed at the deci- 

 The Cricket ^i\,. niiimph c,f Kngland in the tri- 

 Championship. ,,,,.,,1,,, t^,t matches. The South 

 .•\fricans have bren clearlv out- 

 cl.issed all along. After their " googlv " bowling 

 •had been once ma.stered in Australia a couple of 

 years ago. the\ were no longer formidable. But 

 Au.stralia's position is due to other facts. The mis- 

 erable wrangles uhieh have disgraced the game with- 



in these shores for the past few year^ li,n> left 

 a sad mark upon it. First we were deprived of the 

 .services of our incomparable captain, Mr. M. A. 

 Noble, whose leadership was an outstanding asset 

 in every match, ajiart fixmi his fine all-round quali- 

 ties as a player. Then came the larger dispte, which 

 involved the omission of six '" certainties,'' from the 

 team sent liime. What would not the interest gained 

 dairing these matches had Ai-mstrong been there just 

 when ner\-e and skill were needed to break the 

 the bowling; c)r had the brilliant Trumper l)een in- 

 troducing the ball to the bound. try fence with grace- 

 ful strokes ; or Hill and Ranslord with brilliant left- 

 hand play rallied their side, or Carter and Cotter 

 come in towards the end of an innings to show the 

 strength of the Kangaroo'.s t.iil. The team did as 

 well as anvone ex|)ected it to do. Some members 

 did brilliantly, but the task was above them. The 

 Weather, too, was against the best kind of play. The 

 I'lnglish clim.ite treated our men bailly. On the 

 whole, however, .some of the men return with 

 enhanced reputations. Bardslev, who was out of 

 form last year, has re(x>vered. Kellawav has kept 

 his i>lace. Macartney has justified his inclusion, 

 while Hazlitt and Matthews have rendered good ser- 

 \ice. The Board of Control won its case and lost its 

 matc^hes. The |)la\ers ha\e h.id their trip and got 

 \ery little profit out of it, while Australian cricket 

 lovers are saildt'r, if not wi.ser, for the humiliating 

 experience. 



The editor of this '' Review of .■\us- 

 Mr, W, H. tralasia " has had to undergo an- 



Jadkins. other operation A year ago iiis life 



was des|)aired of, but, to the sur- 

 [)rise of all, it was sijared, and he has been able to 

 (k) his work for the greater part of the tfme since. 

 Hut there has Ix^n constant weakness and much 

 I lain. His sufferings ha\e been so intense of late 

 rh.it a further operation to gi\e temporary relief was 

 resohed U])on. This was performed bv Dr. J. R. 

 Lee last week, and at the time of writing Mr. 

 Judkins was somewhat relieved, although exceedingly 

 feeble. The ojx-ration, it may lie mentioned, was 

 not performed with any \iew to permanent cure, 

 but to relieve excruciating pain for the time being. 

 Mr. Judkins has reo-ntly published a booklet under 

 the title, " From the Mountain Top," in which he 

 gives his experiences of peaceful meditation during 

 months of suffering. The thoughts there expres.sed 

 represent the triumph of Christian faith and forti- 

 tude over great difficulties, and many friends and 

 admirers h.ive found inspiration through reading 

 them. 



