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West Coast Times, Issue 364, 22 November 1866, Page 3

The " Greelong Register" is not complimentary to the youth of the colony whose "hard fortune" has doomed them to become 'prentices. — "Apprentices and their masters, it would appear, are not on the best of terms with each other. The apprentice mind cannot brook confincmeut, has a mortal dislike for work, and scouts the, idea of being obliged to retire to rest nt ten p.m. Two of these colonial specimens appeared at the Police Court on Wednesday, one of whom, a lad named Grant, had thought fit to absent himself from work for uca >• a fortnight, for which he was ordered to pa-;' a week's wages, and 5s costs of court ; and flic other, named Kiernan, having appeared also, on the Monday previous,.for a similar olfence, was sentenced to twenty-four hours' solitary confinement." The New South Wales Court of the Intercolonial Exhibition contains a valuable and rare photographic view of the spot at which Captain .Cook first landed in Australia, Through a microscope the following inscription can be made out : — " A.I). JIDCCCLXX. Under the auspices of British Science, These Shores were discovered By James Cook and' Joseph Banks, The Columbus and Mecenas of Their Time. This Spot once saw them Ardent in the Pursuit of Science. Now To their memory this Tablet is Inscribed, In the First Year Of the Philsophic Institute of Australasia. Sir Thos. Brisbane, X.C.8., F.R.S., L. & E., Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, President. t