FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 20687, 9 January 1931, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM • STAR • FILES The polling for a city councillor lor High Ward in the room of Cr Ross (elected mayor) was held yesterday (January C), at/tho Garrison Hall. The following was flic result: —Arthur Scoullar, 001 votes; Henry J. Walter, 325.

At the Wyndham races the second place in the Handicap Trot was won by a lady, who received a perfect ovation on arriving at the post.

News has been received from Durban that a considerable body of Boers entered Natal from the Transvaal and marched some distance across the border, where they came up with a detachment of British troops and opposed its advance towards the Transvaal. It is not known whether any fighting occurred.

Sir Kvelvn Wood is to proceed from London to" the. Cape to command the British troops in the Transvaal.

The official report of the disaster met with by a detachment of tho 94th Regiment in tho I ransvaal shows that the detachment was escorting a convoy of supplies, when it was surrounded by the Boers, who summoned the British to surrender. On tho latter refusing the Boers swept down on them, and 112 officers and men were killed.

Tho Right Hon. John Bright was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University in succession to Mr Gladstone, by a majority of 314 votes over Mr Ruskin, the Conservative nominee.

The Great rowers continue to urge Turkey and Greece to agree to European arbitration on the frontier question, but a favourable result has not so far been reached. « ■* * * Another crisis in the French Ministry is imminent. M. Herald has resigned, and M. Ferrv (Prime Minister) and M. Couston (Minister of the Interior) have threatened to send in their resignations to President Grevy.