THE CONDITION OF SYDNEY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2423, 10 November 1892, Page 3

THE CONDITION OF SYDNEY.

Sydney Is fast drifting into the same hopeless condition as Melbourne, if indeed, it has not already quite as ugly a record of distress and trade depression to show. The number of unemployed in Sydney runs into,many thousands, but it is estimated that one thousand families are in receipt of daily relief. One big Sydney firm the other day dispensed with the services of 100 hands at once, and another discharged 70. These are merely a couple of typical instances of what has been going on for some time in the city, and should serve to show the straits to which masters as well as men must be reduced. But how can it be otherwise I What else can be expected in a city with a population of 380,000, while the total population of the whole colony only amounts to 1,134,200. Comparatively speaking, there is no country population, no producers and no consumers to maintain a large operative and manufacturing city population. Let ns turn to Victoria and we find precisely the same state of things. That colony is about the area of Great Britain; it has a population of 1,140,000, of which 401,000 are hived in the city of Melbourne. We hear a good deal about the congested population of London, but Melbourne, if wo look at the population of Victoria and its area relatively with that of England, beats London hollow. Bad as Sydney and Melbourne are, the marvel is that they have not given earlier evidence of the evil system by which their expansion has been accomplished.