FIFTY TEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 22351, 29 May 1936, Page 2

FIFTY TEARS AGO

From ‘ Star ’ File*. To-day, May 24, being the Queen’# birthday, a royal salute of 21 guns was fired by the B Battery of Artillery on the reclaimed ground. * * # * The Dunedin Club’s first fifteen sustained a defeat- on Saturday at the hands of the Invercargill Club at Invercargill. The home team won tha game by a goal and a fry to nil, • * • • The Otago Company’s whaling barqu® Splendid, which reached the Heads on Friday morning, crossed the bar yesterday and sailed up with a light N.E.breeze, berthing alongside the export pier in readiness to discharge her oil. Her ctuise, which has been a successful' one, occupied 19 months, during which time she captured nine whales, yielding some 90 tons of oil. Tha (Othello, after a 19 months’ cruise, reached the Heads yesterday morning and sailed upf with a light N.E. breeze, and berthed at the export pier. _ Although. fish were some 20 times, only fotpMrere taken,' yielding some 40 toiw; of*? hMf: A, ton of, bone. She- returned to headquarters by way of Cook Strait, and on the 19th inst.encountered a heavy N.E, gale,, which carried away her topgallant staysail and gaff topsail. ' In the New South Wales Parliament Mr Slattery gave notice that in June he would move a resolution declaring that all British dependencies should contribute an equitable sum annually towards the British Army and Navy, to relieve the English taxpayers from payments for the protection of the Jive# of Her Majesty’s subjects in these dependencies. » * * * Last evening the new organ just purchased for the Congregational Church at St. Clair was opened by Mr Corliss, when a very enjoyable concert of sacred pnisic was given. There was a satisfactory attendance, and all were much’ pleased with the manner in which tha varied programme was rendered. The concert formed one of a series of musical and literary entertainments given every Monday evening in aid of the building fund of the church. * * * * Mr Robert Stout (New Zealand’# Premier) has been knighted. * * m • We (‘Marlborough Express 5 ) heard the comparative merits of four great politicians summed up the other day in an epigramatic fashion. Mr Stout has frequently nothing original to say—. and says it badly. Sir Julius Vogel always has a little to say—and says it imprudently. Major Atkinson always has more to say than he can find time for—and says it plainly. Sir George Grey never has anything to say—but* always says it well.