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to their private affairs. They still own jointly those six houses in Macquarie St. opposite Sydney Hospital, but from remarks dropped occasionally by Jackada I gather that expenses, & rates, & other charges, pretty well swallow up the far greater part of the rents, so that I don't think they get much out of them for themselves. This has been made very clear to me of late years by that attitude of "stoney brokeness" that Auntie Jeannie always has, although I pay her £1200 a year out of her share in Grandfather Hughes's estate. I gather from this that her income has jolly well to keep the Killountain household going, so that if this is so in Jackada's case, George will be beastly hard up if he doesn't get another job, and I don't very much care for his chances.

The sensation of the week has been the performances of Tom de Burgh. I am enclosing some newspaper cuttings. It appears that he was to go back to some railway work he was supervising at Dungog, after spending his Christmas with his people at Vaucluse. He went off to Manly for a surf dip, & that night the caretaker of the dressing sheds at Manly found some unclaimed clothes with amongst other things a card of Tom's in one of the pockets. Then followed a hue & cry from last Thursday night until Saturday afternoon, with much newspaper publicity, until in the end Judge Street

 

 

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