FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 3

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM 1 STAR ’ FILES The Mayor of Auckland, while passing through the American section of the Melbourne Exhibition, looked at some of the American educational books exhibited, and was surprised to find how patriotism was steadily inculcated in American children. They wore told in their very lessons that it was their duty to use the articles produced in their country, rather than those imported from abroad; and a further article in their creed was a belief that the American manufactures were much better than those of any other country. The mayor says that the young Americans are thus from their earliest days imbued with a spirit of patriotism, which is lacking in the colonies. As tt matter of fact, if colonists taught their children anyth'ng it was, so far as practical example went, that any imported rubbish was better than what the local industries of their country could produce. Mr Devore considers that a similar method of teaching the young their duty in respect to the industries of this country, 'as” is adopted in America, should ,he introduced into our public school system, and he intends to bring the matter up at a convenient opportunity. • * * ■ * MAYORAL NOMINATIONS. Candidates nominated for the mayoralty of Dunedin are:—Charles R. Chapman, proposed by Hon. T. Dickand Robert Chapman; Hugh Gourley, proposed by • Robert Wilson and Alexander Cairns. Mr A. C. Begg was returned unopposed for the fourth time in Roslyu. Mr S. Myers w r as re-elected Mayor of North-east Valley. • * • • CARBINE SOLD FOR 3,000g5. Carbine has been sold for 3,000 gs to Mr H. Ryan. The price has only been exceeded once in Australia—namely, when Mr Hurtle Fisher’s celebrated Fishhook w r as sold for 3,500g5. * * * • U.S.A. WOULD SUPPORT BRITAIN. Lord Randolph Churchill said that a prominent American had assured him that if England became involved in a struggle for existence the whole of the forces of the United States W’onld assist Great Britain to overcome the difficulties. • • • • GROCERS VOTE FOR HALFHOLIDAY. A meeting of grocers was held in the Coffee Palace to consider the desirability of obtaining a weekly half-holiday for the trade. Thirty persons were present, and Mr Stewart Frazer was voted to the chair. It was decided that a committee wait upon the grocers in the city and suburbs and request their agreement to observe a weekly halfholiday. It was subsequently resolved that the half-holiday should be on Wednesdays, from 12.30 p.m. » * • « MEAT SHIPPING CONTRACT. "We hear that a contract between the combined shipping companies and the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company has been signed for a period of two years, with a guarantee of a minimum quantity of 205,000 sheep annually, the ships undertalking to carry all that the works can turn out. • * * * ORPHANAGE FOR AUCKLAND. Auckland’s list of benefactors has just been added to, the late Mr James Leslie, of Parnell, having bequeathed £5.000 for the establishment and maintenance of an orphanage to bo erected in that city. Orphans and destitute children of all laces and creeds are to ho admissible, but the inmates are to be educated in the doctrine of ■ the Presbyterian Church. • « * • AN OUTSIZE IN NUGGETS. A nugget of pure gold, weighing lOSoz, has been found in Pilburra, Western Australia., ••. • • PERSONAL. Mr D. M’Naugliton, of this city, who has been studying for some time past with a view ”to the Congregational ministry, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Congregational Church at Lawrence. One of our New Zealand writers is making his mark in the Old Country. Mr E. Trcgear, of Wellington, has an article in 1 Nature,’ on ‘ Thunder and the Stone Age.’ In the 1 Anthropological Society’s Transactions,' Mr Tregoar has a paper on the 1 Maori and the Moa,’ and in the ‘ Westminster Review ’ he contributes a paper on ‘ Compulsory Education,’ which the London Press say is a bold and masterly article. • • • • OPENING UP SUTHERLAND FALLS/ During his visit to Dunedin, Chief Surveyor M’Kerrow arranged what is to be done this season to open up the route to the Sutherland Falls A boat is to be placed on Lake Ada, and the track from tjje Sound to the lake improved ; and on the other side, between the lake and the falls, a track is to bo blasted round a rocky bluff which impedes it. The overland track rf M’Kinnon is also to be improved, and it is expected that it will be available for ladies by next summer. / * • • * SUMMER SNOW. The weather this morning (Thursday) was cold enough for winter instead of mid-spring, and between 0 and 10 o’clock there was a heavy fall of snow in town. Flagstaff and the surrounding hills had a good coat of snow this morning, but it quickly molted under the strong rays of the sun. ’that useful anthoritv, the oldest inhabitant, informs us that it is a little more than a quarter of a century since snow has fallen in Dunedin so late in the vear; and on that occasion it fell on Christmas Day.