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 and "creek." In a morning paper, I looked at a list of towns, and the first three were Tennant's Creek, Brock's Creek, and Powell's Creek The newspapers here are very prosperous, as they are lately all over the world. Their great prosperity, I am told, has come within the past twenty years, and that is true everywhere. One Adelaide paper prints a department entitled: "Fifty Years Ago," a brief résumé of events half a century old. One item reads: "A special harvest holiday train will leave Kapunda for Adelaide on Thursday, on account of the Agricultural Society's exhibition," etc.; so it seems that Adelaide is not at all youthful An advertisement in the morning paper read: "Wanted—Position by bird scorer." Over here, the word Trust, which we despise, is used without the slightest delicacy. The street railway company is unblushingly called the Tramway Trust in its own announcements. And just now there is some excitement because the Tramway Trust, in a disagreement with its employees, refused to accept arbitration. All the papers are full of labor-trouble news. It seems to me that in the United States we do not hear half as much about labor disturbances as we hear here. Every workingman who is not on strike, is discussing one, with a view of forcing another increase in wages. But labor rioting is not as frequent or serious here as in the United States; there are practically no "scabs" to assault—it is a rare thing to find a working man or woman who does not belong to a union.