FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 23324, 21 July 1939, Page 3

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM •STAB' FILES

WARRANT FOR ARREST OF SULLIVAN. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of J. L. Sullivan and J. Kilrain for taking part in a prize fight in the United States. All efforts to discover them have been futile, and it is believed' that their friends arc keeping them in hiding. NOMINATED IMMIGRATION. The immigration returns for the year show that,-255 persons landed in New Zealand under the nominated system. From the time of the commencement of this scheme, 74,055 persons have been nominated, and 31,373 have arrived in the colony. Of these Otago has absorbed 8,980, Canterbury 8,549, Auckland 5,507. Wellington 4,*61. and Hawke’s Bay 1,643. The remainder has been distributed amongst other districts. • » « « * CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 1 EXECUTIVE. Officers elected at the annual meeting of tho Chamber of Commerce were:—President, Mr J. M. Ritchie; vice-president, Mr T. R. Fisher; committee—Messrs A. Bartleman, J. M. Gallaway, W. Gow, J. F. Harper, J. H. Morrison, J. T. Mackerras, and A. S. Paterson; auditor, Mr J. Davie. EDUCATIONAL FRANCHISE. The Educational Franchise Bill, which has been persistently introduced in the House of Parliament for some sessions by Major Steward, and having for its object the abolition of the cumulative rote and the better definition of the term “ householder,” has passed through its remaining stages in the Lower House. * * • • FOOTBALL RESULTS. Dunedin defeated Pirates by 10-7; Zingari-Richmond beat Union by 4-3; Alhambra accounted) for Montecillo, 9-0; while Kaikorai proved victors in its match with University by 7-0. **• # * GOVERNMENT FOR WEST AUSTRALIA. The Bill granting responsible government to Western Australia has passed through tho committee of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. As Don Podro the Second, Emperor of Brazil, was leaving a theatre lie was fired at with a revolver by a Portuguese. The bullet went wide of the mark, and tho Emperor drove off uninjured.