FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 23717, 26 October 1940, Page 17

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM ‘ STAR ’ FILES The Exhibition dome and offices are being demolished and will shortly be separated; into lots and sold. The monument of the Queen, which stood in the centre of the dome, is in future to occupy a position in the main entrance of the Town Hall. * • * • The Auckland Board of Education has discussed the propriety of its teacher's taking part in political matters. Mr Goldie mentioned a case of a teacher appearing on a platform at a political meeting and objecting to a certain candidate, and afterwards attending a meeting of the opposing candidate and seconding a motion of confidence. The chairman (Mr Uddy) said this was not the only case of the kind. The following motion was passed: —“ That the board disapproves of teachers taking an active prominent part in election matters.” « « . We hear that at a meeting held at Port Chalmers this forenoon the strike, as far as the wharf labourers are concerned, was brought to an end. The members of the Seamen’s Union, however, are not willing to terminate the strike at present. The Dunedin branch of the Wharf Labourers’ Union also decided at a meeting to go back in a body to their work. • * • * The attendance at Labour Day sports at Dunedin, as checked by the gate returns, was 10,083, and the cash takings were close on £390. # # • • Medical gentlemen at Berlin declare that Dr Koch’s discovery of a cure for consumption by inoculation is of greater importance than the discovery of chloroform and Lister’s antiseptic. A seam of coal over 50ft deep has been found on the Castle Hill Company’s property at Kaitangata. • • » * The Tsar, Sultan, and other European sovereigns, also Prince Bismarck, sent messages to Count von Moltke congratulating him on attaining his ninetieth birthday. Emperor William visited the general and was entertained at a banquet. The absence of Prince Bismarck from the banquet was unfavourably commented on. Mr Gladstone, speaking at Edinburgh, said that he was in favour of the disestablishment of the Church of Scotland, but thought that endowment should accompany the disestablishment. Referring to affairs in Turkey, he remarked that it was hopeless to expect a proper system of government in that country. On the Irish question he said that if home rule were granted to Ireland he would favour the retention of Irish representation in the House of Commons. « * • * The Dutch Parliament has declared King William 111. incapable of ruling, and has invested the Council of State with regal powers.