FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 21879, 16 November 1934, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM ‘STAR’ FILES Mr. D. Brent re-elected Mayor of Maori Hill. .•» * * Cholera raging in France. As inanjj as a hundred deaths a day are occur, ring in Paris from this disease. # * * t The general advance towards Khartoum of the British expedition-under Lord Wolseley is not expected to bf made .before Christmas. *** ■ • The distress which at present provails in the iron and shipping trades in England is said to he greater than for many years past. •.* * * It having been decided to reopen the police station at Ravensbpurne, Constable 'Higgins has been transferred there from Port Chalmers. * * * * Aliss Genevieve Ward, the noted English actress, is attracting large audiences to the Princess Theatre. For. get-Me-Not ’ is being staged this week. « * * * At a meeting of Knox Church session it was resolved to approve of the proposed union with the Northern Church. The session of First Church, Invercargill, also declared unanimously in favour of union. »** • ' Mr A. J. Towsey, who has been appointed organist at St. John’s, Christchurch, was fareivelled by a meeting of Dunedin citizens. Mr -E. B. Carcjll made the presentation, winch consisted of a purse containing 100 severeigns. , , , , The House of Commons, by a majority of nineteen, rejected a motion for an inquiry into the existing depression of trade, and agriculture in Great Britain. During the debate Mr H. E. Childers (Chancellor of the Exchequer). 1 deprecated any resort to Protection.