Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Friday 28 April 1893, page 1


PERTH-BUNBURY RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER THE SWAN RIVER.

A very agreeable smoke social was held last evening in the Working Men's Hall, under the auspices of the West Perth Foot-ball Club. Mr. T. F. Quinlan, M.L.A., oc-cupied the chair, and there was a good at-tendance of members and their friends. The event of the evening was the presenta-tion of a very handsome picture frame, con-taining the portraits of last season's twenty and the office bearers of the club, to Mr. K. H. Barrett, one of the vice- Presidents. The presentation was made by Mr. Quinlan, who alluded to Mr. Barrett as one of the founders of the Club, and always its most enthusiastic supporter. At the beginning of last year, Mr. Barrett experience a difficulty in getting a capable twenty to take the field, but as tbe result of his efforts look he s-ud, at the West Perth team at the close of the season, the premiers of Perth, and separated by one point only from the premier club of the col-

ony. (Cheers.) Mr. Barrett had not only assisted the club with his advice and opinion, but had come forward to aid it financially, aud its members were, therefore, grateful and desired to show their appreciation of such true sportsmanlike con-duct. He asked Mr. Barrett's acceptance of the gift as a mark of esteem and good fellowship from the members. In respond-ing, Mr. Barrett said he was proud to know that he held the esteem of the members of the Club, and the handsome gift that even-ing would be prized as the expression of that esteem. He had done his best for the Club in the past, as he hoped to do in the future, for he believed always in aiding sport in the most thorough manner. He hoped much from the West Perth Club next season, and bilieved they would come out premiers of the colony. During the even-ing, songs were given by Messrs. Eveston, Copley, Taylor, Brady, Sykes and Duff, and

WHITBY FALLS.

reetations by Mrssrs. Scott, Walstenholme and Walter Herdsmen were well received, the latter gentleman bringing down the house with a realistic effort :What we do with 'em when they are tight." A very en-joyable evening broke up shortly before midnight. Advices from Sydney by Monday's mail state that small-pox has appeared at Cape Town, and was causing anxiety there when the mail steamer left last month for New Zealand. It seems that the Union liner Scot had arrived with the disease on board, and another steamer, the Lismore Castle, one of Donald Currie and Company's Cape line, was also found to be infected, and was, with the Scot, quarantined. Twenty four persons from the steamer Tartar had just completed a term of quaran-tine when the New Zealand steamer left. The position of affairs at the quarantine grounds, Saldanba Bay, is described as re-sembling a huge hospital. At one stage of the outbreak there were 150 persons in quarantine, only a few of whom were actually infected, and the release of the Tartar's passengers and others a few days before the mail left would reduce the number there to just over 80. It would appear that some of the passengers by the Scot had landed and got away into the interior before the presence of the disease on board the steamer was discovered. Amongst the number so land-ed were Lord and Lady Algernon Gordon Lennox, and they had reached Johannes-burg, when one of the servants was attacked with symptoms of variola. The whole party whs ordered into quarantine for a period of three weeks, and the hotel at wtich the servants were quartered was im-mediately shut up by the authorities. Lord and Lady Gordon-Lennox at

On April 20 a meeting of the Dis-trict Board of Education was held at the Port Town Hall. President, Archdeacon Watkins, chairman, Messrs. J. B. Doonan, and the hon. secretary (Mr. W. E. Wray). Correspondence was read from the Central Board as follows : — A letter stating that the Board would consider the advisability of increasing the salaries of assistant teach-ers at a future meeting ; a letter stating that the Board had no power to instruct the Resident Magistrate to issue a sum-mons to the compulsory officer gratis. It was decided to ask the Colonial Secretary to give effect to the recommendation ; a letter acknowledging the receipt of a re-port from the Health Officer re the Beacons-field school buildings, replying that the Board were doing all in their power to get the new school erected as speedily as pos-sible ; also a later communication stating that the Works Department had been re-quested to have plans prepared and tenders called for the building at once; a letter approving Miss Ida Mofflin's appointment as pupil teacher, North Fremantle school. It was decided to defer the matter of grant-ing school requisites for the establishment of a night school at Beaconsfield. A re-quisition from Mrs. Price, headmistress of infant's school, for certain alterations, was deferred. The Board decided to visit this school. It was also decided to pay a visit of inspection on Friday morning to the whole of the Fremantle schools. The Central Board replied to a letter from the secretary to the effect that he (the secre-tary) should procure any necessary disin-fectants for the various schoools. The sec-retary stated that he would purchase some at once, and a supply would be sent to each school. This concluded the business, and the meeting adjourned.