FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 9

FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

The ‘Tablet’ informs us that the Jesuit Fathers will arrive in Dunedin next month to establish a mission and open a college if sufficient inducement is given. » « « « There are 126 prisoners, of whom nineteen are females, in the Dunedin Gaol at the present time. A gang of twenty-seven are, road-making at Portobollo, twenty-four are employed at the Maitland street cutting, eighteen in widening and improving the West Harbor road at Ravensbourne, nine are preparing the site for the new Post and Telegraph Office at North Dunedin, and six find employment at the Botanical Gardens. * * # # Tlio ‘ Tablet ’ is greatly pleased with the Financial Statement in all but one respect. It hopes that the Ministry will reconsider its attitude in reference to denominational schools, and whilst maintaining secular schools for such as will have them, if needs must, treat denominational schools with justice by putting them on a footing of equality with the others—so far, at least, as tho capitation allowance of £4 per head of average attendance is concerned. # * * * At a meeting of the Albion Cricket Club last night Messrs J. 0. Eva_ and Rose attended on behalf of the Cricket Association, and presented tho challenge cup that was won last season by the Albion. * * * * Christchurch, August 10.—Miss Tilly Andrews (tho actress) has, it is understood, settled the quarrel with her husband. He gives up her wardrobe and jewels, and they separate. * * * « It is stated that tho plant for the Dunedin Tramways has been shipped at Home. « « « « Tho time for opening the DunodinChrisfcchurch railway line has not yet been decidedly fixed, but it will probably bo tho first week in September.