FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 24297, 11 September 1942, Page 5

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM 1 STAB ’ FILES “ Tabby ” has proved such a Splendid exterminator of rabbits on the Buoh Hill Station, Middlemarch, that the owners of a large property in the same district are calling for tenders for the supply of 500 cats - * -The Milford Sounds prison establishment has been broken up. * * * * The councillors of Kaitangala indignantly deny the statement that their borough is insolvent. The mayor declares that they owe nothing and that they are among the least taxed boroughs in the colony. * * * « Nows from the South Sea Islands states that a British protectorate has been proclaimed over the whole of the Ellice Islands and that the protectorate will be established by Captain Gibson, of H.M.S. Curaeoa, who was to leave Suva on August 17 for the group. » • « * M. Ferret, in custdoy in Brisbane oh suspicion of being a Russian spy, will be brought before the Police Court. The authorities arc developing his photo, plates. *** . * The Labour Day Convention held in Brisbane on August 12 agreed to the following recommendation: —“That in order to keep the Labour Party absolutely free from the scandals which frequently occur through intemperance they'should refuse to endorse as a Labour candidate any man known to bo of intemperate habits.” *•• ' « The ‘ Wanganui Chronicle ’ warns the metropolitan clubs that unless they keep ‘strict ward over the totalisator and keep down the ever-increasing number of small meetings they will assuredly lose the machine altogether. « * * * A nice sort of gentleman must be the Rev. P. L. Cameron, late curate of Wanganui, who, according to the ‘ Herald,’ spoke ot his archdeacon as a “ chump ” and described a tea meeting as a ‘ tea drunk, with its concomitants of bun stuffing and visible swellings.” This worthy Hunks that a church meeting is the proper time and place to have a deficit “trotted out.”