FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 22233, 10 January 1936, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM 'STAR' FILES The election of a councillor to represent Leith Ward in the City Council took place yesterday. The poll was declared about 7 o’clock, when about 130 people were present. The result of the polling was: James Crantond 406, George Lawrence 239, Charles R. Chapman 106, John Jackson 54. « * * * The Colonial Treasurer has wired to Mr J. C. Brown, M.H.R., that the survey of the proposed railway extension to Roxburgh via Lawrence will shortly be commenced. * * * * Nows lias been received from Pietermaritzburg (South Africa) of the death of Mr David Kennedy, at the age of 36 years, eldest son of the wellknown Scotch vocalist. « * « "« Typhoid fever threatens to visit Sydney this year in a Very severe form. At the Coast Hospital recently there were 38 acute cases. * * * * The Oamani * Mail ’ states that the Rev. J. L. Keating has resigned the incumbency of St. Luke’s, Oamatu. Dr Hector has completed the rainfall returns for 1885, and finds an extraordinary deficiency all over the colony. The deficiency at Auckland was 33 per cent., at Dunedin 30, and at Wellington 28; but for the month of December tho deficiencies were enormous, being no less than 81' per cent, at Auckland, 72 at Wellington, and 71 at Dunedin—all reckoned on the averages of the last 30 years. It is no wonder that there are grievous complaints of drought,- |