FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 21641, 9 February 1934, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM ' STAR ' FILES Two men were caught red-handed fishing for . trout in Lake Wakatipu. Their boats and nets were seized. They are liable to a penalty of £IOO. * ' * * #■ In the last number of the 1 Gazette ’ it is notified that 1,344 acres have been permanently and 764 acres temporarily reserved for forest tree planting purposes along the Otago Central' Railway line. • , ; \*♦ • ' * The trustees, of the Dunedin Savings Bank have agreed' to pay out of the accrued profits the sum of '£1.500 to the trustees of the Benevolent Institution. This is the third payment of the kind by the Savings Bank trustees. The late Mr Holloway, of pills fame, told a writer in the ‘ Australasian ’ that he retrenched his advertising considerably one year, and the result was a falling off of £20,000 in his sales. He never repeated the experiment. Judicious advertising is the keystone of success. * * * * The first cricket match ever played between Tasmania and Otago was contested on the Carisbrook Ground. Scores Tasmania: First innings, 40; second innings, 47. Otago: First ininngs, 65 (Harris 41) ; second innings, 24 for two wickets. Otago thus won by eight wickets. Cooke, H. Mac Neil, and C. Frith were successful bowlers for Otago, while T. Kendall was the outstanding bowler for Tasmania. The ground was in a very heavy state following much rain. * * * * Mr R. Stout has undertaken to draft a petition to Parliament praying that Dunedin should again be made one electorate, and the council of the Trades and Labour Union will obtain signatures to it. Mr Stout told the council that in Christchurch and Wellington, and he believed in Auckland, public opinion was adverse to the city electorates being split up as at present. * * 1 * » At the annual meeting of the Dunedin Naval Brigade Band the folio lying officers were elected Secretary, Mr J. T. Clark; treasurer, Mr F. VVells; librarian, Mr W. Hogg; assistant bandmaster, Mr E. Stratton; conductor, Mr C. Coombs; committee — Messrs Angus, Cook, Hogg, Chapman, and Robertson. * • * • Egyptian troops numbering 3,600, under Baker Pasha, were heavily defeated by Arabs near Suakin. Gordon Pasha’s safety is doubtful, and the fall of Khartum is likely to follow. This further Egyptian disaster is likely seriously to damage Mr Gladstone’s credit at the coming General Election.