FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 22525, 18 December 1936, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

From * Star ’ Files. The gold escort arrived in Dunedin by the 7.45 p.m. train on Saturday, in charge of Sergeant-major Bevin, and bank officers Greenwood and Perston, who brought down nine boxes and on® bag of gold, valued at £25,000. The death is announced of the Rev.John Whewell, who was the first Wesleyan missionary appointed to the Friendly Islands. • • . • • News has reached Dunedin of the death of Mr David Kennedy, the worldfamous Scottish vocalist. New Zealand was included in Mr Kennedy’s concert tours. ••» ■ • There is great distress among the unemployed in Germany, and according tp the Dantzig * Zeitung ’ trade is paralysed. •• * . Mr R. H. Leary installed a? Mayor of Dunedin, in succession to Mr J, Barnes. During the consideration of the resignations placed before the Education. Board to-day Mr A. C. Begg said that a point was suggested to him by the case of one teacher. It appeared that she applied for a removal on account of the loneliness of her present situation, she having to live in a house by herself, and without company of any sort. He certainly the board should exercise more discrimination in sending single female teachers into the country, and see that they could get decent lodgings, with some social comfort. Th® secretary of the board explained that this particular case was quite an unusual one, and that as a rule the circumstances in which a teacher was placed were not disregarded. *•. * * Steffano Merlatti, a young Italian artist, has completed a fast of .60 days. He was very much emaciated, but otherwise felt no ill-effects. * * ,•« • Count Herbert Bismarck, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, will receive the Bulgarian deputation on it» arrival at Berlin, and will counsel its members to accede to the demands of Russia. •-• • • It is announced that Germany has annexed the Bougainville, Ghoiseue, Isabel, and Solomon groups in the Western Pacific. • • • • The committee of the Reichstag voted an increase of the German army on an effective peace footing of 460,000 for s term of three years, thus rejecting the demand of the Government that it should be increased by 468,000 for seven years.