FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 18051, 19 August 1922, Page 12

FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO

We arc informed that no clergyman has yet been appointed to the vacant cure of All Saints’, Dunedin. The nominators have been for some months endeavoring to obtain a suitable successor to the Rev. R. L. Stanford, but have faded to obtain one, though they have made numerous inquiries in Xew Zealand, Australia, and Tasmania. It has therefore been thought’ advisable to telegraph to Mr J. M. Ritchie to engage one in England. Arrangements have been made with the Rev. Lorenzo Moore to take the supervision of the parish from October 1 next fill the arrival of the clergyman from England. It * # « The bursting-up process continues to go on voluntarily. Mr Studholme is cutting up his Waimate runs for sale as small farms, and his example is likely to ‘he followed by Messrs Mgclean and Tcschemaker. As evidencing the value of land at Waimate, the ‘Mail’ mentions that £27 an acre has been refused for a 20-acre block that was purchased not long since at £l7 an acre. * » # # Mr G. D. Chaplin, who supported Mrs Scott-Siddons during her Sydney engagement, is now playing in Auckland. » # «■ 9 For the Dunedin municipal loan over £229,100 was subscribed in London, at an average price of 95 l-7th.