HAWKERS' LICENSES'.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 844, 11 April 1871, Page 2

HAWKERS' LICENSES'.

[TQ TIIB. E^EfQß.] Sir.,— Can, you inform me how it is that j I have been compelled to pay a license of two guineas for a hawker's license, and another man is allowed to oppose me in the town without one ? I should like to know whose duty it is to look after it, for it appears to be apiece of neglect or injustice. — lam, &c, Jack Sum. [Our correspondent should prefer a complaint to the Borough Council, through the Town Clerk.— Ed. G, B. A.] '

The Victorian Royal Naval; Reserve < will soon be established on a good basis./ Such members of the remaining portions of -the Sandridge and Williarastown Naval Brigade as can pass the very strict qualification examination, medical and otherwise, insisted on, can no.w volunteer into the Naval Reserve;. and as recruits are plentiful, the 270 men' all that are provided for on the Estimates, are as good as enrolled. The remaining members of the Naval Brigade will have the opportunity of joining other corps. While on this subject we may mention that the new Signal and Torpedo Corps are steadily keeping up practice, and have already had several boat excursions' on the river and bay, laying moorings buoys, and empty cases of .torpedoes, whose powers of flotation are being thus tested. " Some time ago," says the JSobart Town JJferawy, "we had occasion to complain of the non-arrival here of neiiP 1 -*'' ■ papers that there was reason to believe had been posted in England. We were, sufferers, and, having had many complaints from others, communicated wilhthe secretary of the Post Office here, who wrote the Post Office officials, London. By this mail he has received $n answer, con" veying the astounding information that every mail from 4000 to 5000 newspapers, addressed to Australia alone, are detuned ,- at the Post Office, London, from insufficient postage, or failure to comply witifc the Post Office regulations. In this way, of the newspapers posted at home for . friends in Australia, some 60,000 fail'to/ reach their (destination annually. Are the Post Office regulations made suffi« ciently known r - The Smith Australian Advertiser of March 28, after giving the summary of a '■ progress report on the overland telegraph, says :— " It will be seen from this report that the important undertaking is pro- . greasing quite as well as could be desired,

and better, perhaps, than could have been anticipated. We hare never concealed from our readers our belief that it was a >^ .great work, which would tax to the the energies of South Australia. But from the time it was entrusted to Mr Todd he has shown a forethought and a zeal in carrying it out entitled to all praise; and, according to present appearance, it will be triumphantly completed within the stipulated time. There is every reason to believe that by the beginning of next year, or very shortly after, the line will be constructed, and we shall be in daily communication with Port Darwin. Should the British Company fulfil their part of the undertaking, which there is no reason to doubt, then at the commencement of 1872 we shall have daily telegrams from all parts of the world. We are informed that, at the special request of Lady Edith Fergusson, the fine range of springs discovered by the explorers, and named in honor of her ladyship will be called the Dalhousie Springs, and will thus associate South Australia with the family title of Lady •Edith." Comparing the above with a report we extracted a few days ago from a Brisbane- paper, it would appear that the extension of the Queensland lines from Cardwell to the Gulf of Carpenteria will be completed before the South Australian wire has crossed the continent.