FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 23354, 25 August 1939, Page 3

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM ‘ STAR ’ FILES PATENTS AND TRADE MARKS, BILL BEFORE THE HOUSE. The Patents, Designs, and . Trade Marks Bill, now before the House, will go a long way towards protecting both the honest manufacturer and the public. The Bill seems to have been carefully drafted, and is, on the whole, well calculated to prevent that species of dishonest trading for which its penalties are provided. • • » « INTERNATIONAL POLITICS. There is an outburst of anger by the French Press towards England, owing to the English Attache at Berlin attending the dinner of the Victoria Guards (German), of which Queen Victoria was recently made honorary colonel, and also at Her Majesty presenting Prince Bismark with a portrait of herself. • • • # PRINCIPAL RAINY. On arriving in Dunedin Principal Rainy was met by the Rev. D. Stuart. Rev. J. ’ Gibb, and other prominent members of the Presbyterian Church. As well as inspecting local woollen mills, Principal Rainy delivered a sermon and lectures in this city, while he was entertained at a special luncheon given by tho Dunedin Presbytery. * * • * FOOTBALL RESULTS. Taieri defeated Alhambra, 3-0; Union beat University, 14-0; while Kaikorai accounted for Montecillo to the tune of 14-0. * • • • NEW JUDGE. Mr E. T. Conolly, of Blenheim, a former Attorney-General, has accepted the vacant judgeship. Ho was called to the Bar in England in 1852, arriving in New Zealand in 1865. * » ♦ * NOVELIST’S PROPOSED VISIT. Mr R. L. Stevenson, the novelist, expects to visit New Zealand early next year. » * * • RETIRING ALLOWANCES. School teachers will learn with satisfaction that the Government is of opinion that they should be brought under the provisions of the Civil Servants Reform Act, 1886, with regard to retiring allowances. The Minister of Education promises to work out a scheme for the purpose. SINKING OF THE CENTENNIAL. The steamer Centennial _ (formerly the Albion) sank in a collision with the collier Kanahooka in Sydney harbour. All on board were saved. Tho Centennial was badly holed in the bow, and in a few minutes she sank, bow first, leaving only the mastheads above water.