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fty-THE AGE WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 1991 Daily Briefing News Diary Maintaining your: train: the answer's in the bin Vice-Regal Notes FEDERAL: The Governor-General, Mr Hayden, received his excellency Dr C. Chawanld. ambassador ot Thailand, al Government House, Canberra, yesterday morning. Later, the Governor-General and Mrs Hayden received Mr M. J.

Wilson, ambassador ol Australia to Austria, and Ms S. Stxetlgoa, who remained lor luncheon, at Government House. In the afternoon, the Governor-General and Mrs Hayden gave a reception for members of the Australian Capital Territory chapter ot the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences, at Government House. STATE: The Governor, Dr Davis McCaughey, presided et a meeting of the Executive Council. The Governor and Mrs McCaughey received the call ot Lord and Lady Bullock, accompanied by Professor I.

M. Herrman, deputy vice-chancellor (development), Victoria University of Technology, Footacray campus. The Governor dined with the president and members ol the Legislative Council at Parliament House, as the guest of the Honorable Alan Hunt, MIX. DID YOU KNOW? People who icek refuge In mediocrity or refuse to take a decision are accused of adopting a middle-of-the-road stance. Since the middle of the road li the most dangerous place for pedestrians or motorists, for an explanation of this expression we must turn to Its original usage, that "the prudent cleave to the centre of the This would have made sense on two counts In the towns of yesteryear.

First it reduced the risk of being dragged into an alley by murderoui muggers, and second, one was less likely to be hit by the contents of chamber-pots hurled from bedroom windows with gay abandon. As for the term this seems odd because the term is Its own antonym. It means either to split asunder or to stick like glue. Lazy mediaeval monks are to blame for this since the two terms are separate. The first derives from the Old English to cut in two.

The other "cleave" Is based on the Old English to stick. Scribes eventually abandoned the differentiating GRAEME DONALD What's Happening THROW US A LIFE-LINE: Lifeline benefit concert with Wendy Harmer, Elliot Goblet, Rod Quantock, Stephen Cummings, Jiml the Human, Archie Roach, Mike McClellan, Judy Small, Jane Clifton and the Great Big Opera Company at the Melbourne Town Hall, 8 pm. $32. Bookings through Bass. POVERTY: A three-day national conference on child poverty and education begins at Melbourne University in the Prince Philip Theatre, Architecture and Planning Building (enter Masson Road), at 9 am.

Inquiries: 628 3484. BEER: The Foster's Brewing Group holds Its annual general meeting this afternoon. THEATRE: The Premier, Mrs Kirner, will officially open the restored 154-year-old Athenaeum Theatre at 1 pm. Tne cast of 'Hair' will assist. TAX: The Federal Opposition's proposed goods and services tax will be debated by Dr Michael Porter and Mr Eric Kisstrom at the Balwyn Community Centre, at 8 pm.

Inquiries: 817 1715. Lotteries KENO: Last night's winning numbers were: 1, 5, 11, 18, 21, 28, 31, 32, 35, 37, 43, 51, 52, 55, 56, 58, 66, 75, 78 and 80. There was no spot 10match 10 winner and tonight's jackpot will be about $1,855,000. Obituary Sir Rohan Delacombe, Governor of Victoria for 11 years, dies aged 85. PAGE 21.

BOB MILUNGTON Text for Today "100 YEARS AGO 'Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the well known journalist and author, one of the most remarkable writers of the day, arrived In Melbourne yesterday by the steamer Talune, from Hobart, on his way from New Zealand to Sydney. 'Th Ags 13 November 1891. 50 YEARS AGO Appreciative reference was made yesterday by Mr. Duff Cooper, visiting British Minister, to the action of the Commonwealth and other Dominions in affording shelter and hospitality to numbers of British children during the war period.

In a speech at the civic reception tendered to him and Lady Diana Cooper at Melbourne Town Hall, Mr. Duff Cooper expressed the firm belief that Britain and the Empire would face their post-war problems together, and suggested that English children on returning from Australia after the war might prove to be good advertising agents for the Commonwealth. 'The Age', 13 November 1941. ONE YEAR AGO The Federal Government yesterday withdrew its support for $160-a-week pay rises for judges of the Industrial Relations Commission. The Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, said the rises would threaten to smash the wage-fixing system if they went ahead.

'The Age', 13 November 1990. Birthdays Jesus said to the Pharisees, "To have good fruit you must have a healthy tree; if you have a poor tree, you will have bad fruit. A tree is known by what feind of fruit it bears. You snakes how can you say good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of." Matthew (GNB). Wanted GREGORY JAMES JESSE, 33, 180 centimetres tall, wanted for theft and deception.

If you know Dollar and gold The Australian dollar rose three points to 78.60 cents yesterday while the trade-weighted Index was unchanged at 59.2. Gold rose 65 US cents to $US355 an ounce. Anniversaries 15SS: Lady Jane Grey Is tried for treason In England. Greece and Turkey sign peace treaty. 1923: First radio station on the air In Australia: 2SB (Sydney Broadcasters Ltd).

1942: British forces retake Tobruk In World War II. 1945: Sukarno becomes president of Indonesia. 1950: Tibet appeals to United Nations against Chinese aggression. 1998: Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Zulklfar All Bhutto, Is arrested on charges of inciting student demonstrations. 1859: Robert Louis Stevenson, left, Scottish writer.

1922: Oskar Werner, Austrian-born actor-director. IMS: Peter Sarstedt, THE Joys of Public Transport (1). Here's a question from John C. Murray, of Ivanhoe: Has there ever been a wilder name for a dance band than Chalkey Aftertaste and his Musical Poltroons, as featured by S. J.

Perel-man In the "New Yorker'? Mr Murray offers this query merely as an Introduction to his peeve, which follows. "Why doesn't the Met provide rubbish bins in Its otherwise admirably designed Comeng trains? It sprang to mind when I boarded the Eltham-bound 3.52 from Flagstaff Station and went within an ace of lowering myself on to a pile of orange peel left on the seat by a previous occupant. The question became sharper with every passing second as three empty drink cans rattled around my ankles all the way home. "Having helped rear three offspring, I'm no stranger to being a vacuum cleaner for other people's detritus, and was quite willing to collect and dispose of the rubbish. But where was I to put it? Short of sprinting out of the carriage at the next stop to toss the stuff Into a station bin a tactic which might have left me spread-eagled against a closed door as I tried to reboard the train there wasn't much I could do.

"Had there been a rubbish container in the carriage, I'd have cheerfully played the role of a responsible citizen, gathered up the mess and, glowing with rectitude, dumped it into the receptacle. There's even a faint chance that the sight of a bin might have prompted the slobs who dropped the discards in the first place to think twice and Do The Right Thing." Well, News Diary has thought long and hard on this Issue. Our considered opinion is that there has probably never been a wilder name for a dance band than Chalkey Aftertaste and his Musical Poltroons. But we could be wrong. bis whereabouts, you may be eligible for a reward of up to $1000 while remaining anonymous.

Ring Crime Stoppers on 865 $999 or from outside the metropolitan area on 998 Quote of the Day "1 would blame the general murky chemistry of Canberra." The Queensland Premier, Mr Goss, on the stale-federal impasse. Muslim Prayer Times Prayer times for today, the 6th Jamad Awal, 1412 Hejry, 4.23 am, 6.02 am, 1.09 pm, 4.59 pm, 8.07 pm, 9.46 pm. ladies who sing In harmony around the more decorous establishments of this town. One night last week they were engaged to belt out favorites from Cole Porter and Jerome Kern at Mletta's, the up-market noshery In Alfred Place. The blurb for this event recounted how one of the redheads, Deborah Westhorp, had "had musical training in violin, flute and By all means put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthlngton, but we suggest you retain the right to proof-read her PR material.

IT WAS Uluru for thousands of years. Then a mere 127 years ago a fellow called William Gosse made a three-month camel trek from Alice Springs and named It for Sir Henry Ayers. The world's most famous monolith was rechristened Ayers Rock until the winds of change swung Its name back to the Aboriginal Uluru, as In Uluru (Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park). And then there was Yulara, the. five-star resort built to save the rock from tourists who come to gape at it glowing red and to climb it because it Is there, to quote that Pom who knew a thing or two about climbing.

And then came the Northern Territory Government, howling like the dingoes for which Yulara is named about servicing debt on the resort to the tune of $25 million a year. Restructuring announced last week will result In the creation of a town called Yulara and a resort called Ayers Rock Resort, which, after a one-off debt ball-out of about $238 million, will now have to balance its own books. So we are back to that familiar moniker. It seems research shows that the Japanese know the name Ayers Rock but can't get their mouths around Yulara. So we can only conclude: the more things change the more they stay the same.

BARKING up the wrong gum tree? Our colleague David Ellas, once travel editor of this august newspaper, wishes to point out that Callfornlans and South Africans are not alone In trying to appropriate Australian flora, as we mentioned In Monday's column. He reports: "When I was visiting the Nile I was told by my Egyptologist guide about the ancient eucalypts and how the pharaohs used to shade under them. Of course I believed him, and told him how the Aboriginal pyramid builders had taken them back to Oz during their long-service leave." -7S Vo- i iMkW. 1 7 w-: 111 "sv i i jp0 Daily, founded 1(54. Business and editorial offices: 250 Spencer Street, Melbourne 3000.

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Registered by AustraHe Post pubHcetion no. VBF 1305 and registered at a newspaper et the British Pott Office. THE Joys of Public Transport (2). A tram was stuck behind a utility trying to do a U-turn in Spencer Street yesterday. Ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding.

The utility by then was marooned, too, because of the traffic. Ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding. The mongrel trucks that should have been on King Street anyway finally stopped at the lights and the ute began to make its turn. It was then that the tram driver reached for his microphone, turned it up to full strength, gave a couple of clearing huffs and puffs and bored it out through the vehicle and on to that sedate Melbourne street at 120 decibels. "Get out of the way, you bastard!" he snarled.

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