FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 3

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM * star ; files The Porte learns that Lord Salisbury has informed the German Government that if war should be occasioned by the attempt of Russia to occupy Bulgaria, England will send two squadrons to the Black Sea. The remains of Napoleon 111. and the Prince Imperial were removed from Chiselhurst to Farnborough on January 9. * * » * Trouble has occurred among the crofters of Aigash, in Invemesshire, Scotland. Landless crofters to the number of 1,000 drove the sheep off some farms, and offered determined resistance to the police. Troops were sent to the scene. Numbers were wounded on both sides, and many crofters were arrested. < * * * * The * Standard ’ states that both Germany and Austria have jointly represented to the Russian Cabinet the danger of continuing preparations for war, which are only construed as threats. * * * * The Awatere Rabbit Board has decided to request the Government to obtain a quantity of microbes of chicken cholera from M. Pasteur, and ask permisison for the board to experiment on rabbits and sheep on an uninhabited island in Queen Charlotte Sound. • • ♦ • The Auckland mining “ boom ” has commenced. Some Maritoto ore brought £1,400 a ton. Shares, which were lid five days ago, have gone up to 4/- and are still rising. • * • * The Rev. T. Spurgeon, son of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, was married at the Hanover Street Baptist Church, Dunedin, to-day, by the Rev. A. North, to Miss Lila Rutherford, eldest daughter of Mr Gideon Rutherford, late of Victoria. * # • # The amount of destitution caused by the recent disastrous floods on the Hoang-ho River (China) has now been estimated. Fully two millions of _ the inhabitants have been utterly deprived of their possessions. • • • • The operation performed on the Crown Prince Frederick of Germany occupied < 10 minutes, His Royal Highness being placed under chloroform. Immediate relief was experienced, and the patient enjoyed a refreshing sleep. ‘ The Lancet ’ expresses fears as to the outcome of the operation.