FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 3

FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

«. The southern escort brought down 4,242 ounces of gold. ******* Mr Duncan Macfarlane retired from the position of personal attendant on the Superintendent of the Province after 12 vears' service. ******* The first stone of the dam retaining wall of the Port Chalmers waterworks was laid near Mr Watson's saw-mill on Sawyers Bay Creek ■by the Superintendent in the presence of the Mayors of Dunedin (Mr Keith Ramsay) ancT Port Chalmers (Mr A. M'Kinnon) and a representative gathering. ******* The appointment of Dr Buller as C.M.G. cave great umbrage to the people of Wellington. ******* Mrs Hay, on retiring from the mistressship of the Mornington School, was presented bv the pupils with a solid silver ink stand. ******* Mr Win. "Xorrie, M.A., classical master in the Edinburgh Collegiate institution, appointed rector of the Dunedin Boys' High School. ******* The privileges of the Dunedin J.C. at their Cup Meeting realised £1,192 at auction. ******* Judge Chapman granted a new trial in the libel suit of Macassey v. Bell on the ground, that the verdict on the principal issue could not be supported. [This decision was later upset on appeal.] ******* The Port decided to establish a local hospital to deal with the numerous accidents occurring there. ******* Valuable reefs discovered at the head of Rogers's Creek and Twelve-mile Creek (Arrow). Trial crushings went from three to four ounces to the ton. ; ******* i Tho-s.s. Gothenburg (once a favorite trader between Port Chalmers and Melbourne) totally wrecked on Flinders Island during a blinding gale. ******* Mr Wm. Fox resigned his seat for Ran<ritikei piior to leaving for England via California. ******* Mr* J. L. Coster resumed the management of the Bank of New Zealand at Christchurch, and Mr Holt transferred to Sydney, where a branch has just been opened. -;<- ****** The Rev. Mr Dasent resigned the incumbency of Waikouaiti and Palmerston. ******* An oil painting of Mr Thomas Abraras, the founder of Oddfellowship in Canterbury, unveiled at Ohristchuxch.