FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 16912, 9 December 1918, Page 2

FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

MT.cn Air E. J. O’Conor recently addressed hi: constituents at ilccfaxi, a resolution was carried that Nelson ought: to bo included in tho Provinces to bo I abolished 1 1 * * * ■****_ I The Dunedin Harbor Board (Captain MTvinnon dissenting) decided to dredge, tho long channel to a depth of nine feet. Tho Rev. Lindsay Mackio inducted as pastor of the First Church. ! ******* ' The transit of Venus, so far a.s Dunedin and Otago were concern’d, was a failure owing to adverse weather conditions. | Mr Studholme resigned as M.H.R. for KaiapoL; Mr C. C. Bowen to contest the vacancy. . The Const of Appeal quashed the con- ' viction of Dodd (second mate of the barque Omeo) for manslaughter on the ground that the crime, having been com- ; mitted on foreign soil, he was not amenable to British jurisdiction, as he claimed to be an American citizen. ******* Napier constituted a borough.. * * * * * * * Tho building trades in Dunedin adopted tho Saturday half-holiday'; to bo inaugurated the first Saturday in 1875. ******* The monthly escort was 19,1560z. Cromwell headed tho list with 3,201 oz. • **»**» The Com- 1 of Appeal set aside the verdict for plaintiff in Dodson v. the Superintendent, on tho ground that the latter could not bind the revenues of the province for act.; for which there was uo legal warrant. |