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History of the Month. 



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The Record of the Chilian Earthquake on the Melbourne Seismograph. 



holdtrs, and those who have been continually resi- 

 dent in Australia for 20 years. These provisions 

 certainly do not savour of anything like injustice or 

 inhumanity, and every care is to be exercised in 

 seeing that the natives are put ashore at their native 

 places. There may be differences of opinion as to 

 the necessity for the deportation, but there cannot 

 be two opinions as to the care which is being taken 

 to prevent injustice. 



The illustration of the Melbourne 

 The Chilian seismograph record will give readers 

 Earthquake. an idea of the extent of the shock 

 on the other side of the world. The 

 first e.irth<]uake shock registered at the time of the 

 Chilian upheaval was 10 hours 34 minutes 5 seconds. 

 on the morning of Fridav, the 17th August, and 

 the maximum strength of the shock was noted at 1 1 

 hours 36 minutes 24 seconds. The cessation of the 

 vibrations did not come until about 10 minutes past 

 2. The Melbourne seismograph has recorded at 

 least 40 of the 82 shocks stated to have occurred. 

 Mr. Barrachi says it would take at least an hour for 

 the tremor to travel the 7500 miles separating Chili 

 from Melbourne. It will be noted that the record 

 is a much more distinct one than the one denoting 

 the San Francisco disturbances, and this is probablv 

 due to the fact that Valparaiso and Melbourne are 

 in the same hemisphere, and that the former place 

 is nearer to us than .San Francisco. 



m.Z. Frte Larue.'} Mr. McGowan s New Gun. 



The Mas with the Gun : "That daahed old bird is gettiiig 

 too cunning to be friKhtened by this scarecrow. I'll tr.v 

 a bajig at him with this new gun. 



New Zealand is detorniiued to keep habitual erimimil.s out. 

 (The gnn is labelled '* Habitual <>iminals and Offenders" Bill. " t 



, , ^ New Zealand is going to make a de- 

 New Zealand ,. • i cr * ^ i i l-^ , 



and Imported termmed effort to keep habitual 

 Criminals. criminals trom its borders, and Mr. 



McGowan is going to bring in an 

 Habitual Criminals and Offenders Bill, which ought 

 t" have the effect of keeping objectionable characters 

 from its shores. If a man be a gaol-bird, there is 

 no sense in allowing him to go to another country 

 .md contaminating fresh areas. Each State should 

 I)e responsible for the criminals within its borders, 

 and deal with them drastically by sentencing them 

 to indeterminate imprisonment, or by adopting such 

 measures as will make them better men. It is not 

 curing a criminal to make him leave a coimtry, and 

 it is an injustice to the place to which he goes; and 

 New Zealand is to be credited with her attempt to 

 keep out any of the scum of Australi.i and the off- 

 scouring of her gaols. It will pn>bal)i\. indirectly, 

 have the effect of causing Australia to look better 

 after the criminals within her own borders. It is no 

 solution of the problem to chase a wrong-doer from 

 .State to State, and it would be a good thing if the 

 whole of the States of .Australia made the law with 

 regard to vagrants and criminals uniform, so that no 

 ach'antage would be g.iined by the passage of this 

 class of man and wom.in from one State to another. 

 An illustration of this is the inefficiency of the 

 vagrancy law in Melbourne, which is becoming the 

 dumping-ground of the States as far as a certain 

 class of criminal is concerned, simpiv because her 

 vagrancy laws are so poor that the police are power- 

 less in the presence of men whom the\ have every 

 re.ison to believe are pre\ing ujion Ihf conimunitv. 



Boxing Contests. 



The crus.ide ag.iiiist professional 

 prize-fighting, dignified 1)> the name 

 of boxing contests, and which ]iro- 

 voked the ethical re\i\al in \'ictoria, 

 is about to bear more fruit. One result nf that 

 crusade was the action of the Government in refus- 

 ing to allow the Exhibition Building to bt- used for 

 such contests, and now the (io\ernment li.is drafted 

 a Bill providing for the suppression of lioxing exhibi- 

 tions for money prizes. The penalties ag.iinst those 

 who act as principals in such exhibitions, or who 

 abet them, will be heavy, including terms of im- 

 prisonment. It is not intended, nor is there anv 

 necessity, to ni.ike it appK tu pro])erlv-conducted 



