PEEPS INTO THE PAST

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 16, 28 February 1939, Page 1

PEEPS INTO THE PAST

FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO-

EXTRACTS FROM THE "ELLES-

MERE GUARDIAN."

Wednesday, February 28, 1894

The North/ Canterbury Acclimatisation Society had liberated a number of geese on Lake Ellesmere.

It was reported that bumble bees were very plentiful in the districrand a very large proportion of active young bees had been noted.

The completed return of the number of women who voted at the 1893 election, the first for women, showed that there were 109,461 on the roll, that 90,290 voted and that 19,171 failed to do so.

A London cable message announced that Mr W. H. Preece, an electrician, had been engaged in investigating the principle of transmission of messages without the agency of wires and had perfected an invention of this nature. He asserted that by this apparatus he could cause sound to radiate any distance from a given point.

Irwell School committee meeting was attended by Messrs tif: Heslop (chairman), McMillan, Miller, and Henderson. The roll number was 46. The judging of the sewing work of the girls was done by Mesdames Rhodes, Davies, and Amyes.