Fifty Years Ago

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 9 March 1935, Page 8

Fifty Years Ago

EXTRACTS FROM “HAWERA STAR” MARCH 9, 1885. A London cable states that in connection with the Anglo-Russian difficulty it has transpired that the i Government has demanded the immediate withdrawal of the Russian troops from beyond the Afghan frontier. The position is generally deemed to be most critical and active warlike preparations are now proceeding both in England and in India in view of possible hostilities. * * * * The Tichborne claimant has now fallen so low that he appears in a provincial variety company in .England, and takes his turn between an acrobat, styled the human serpent, and the Cornish mite. ... if * -•:< *

It is announced that a marriage has been arranged between the Princess Clemantine, daughter of King Leopold of Belgium, and Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

One of the trans-Atlantic, steamship lines is about to issue tickets entitling passengers merely to lodgings and conveyance. This is a concession to passengers subject to sea sickness. *****

According to the Egyptian correspondent of the Times, the scheme adopted by the Suez Canal Commission for the widening of the canal is as follows: Between Port Said and Ismailia it will be made broad enough allow two ships to pass each other without stopping. From Ismailia to Suez a channel parallel to the present one will be constructed.

At a meeting of Irish Nationalists, held in Dublin on February 4, Mr T.

P. O’Connor,

M.P., said in his ad-

dress, that when in due time Parnell appealed to the people to pay Irish members, the result would astonish the -world. He made no allusion to the explosions in London, nor to the shooting of Rossa. *****

A meeting of those interested in arranging a demonstration in honour of the completion of the TaranakiFoxton railway will he hold in the borough council chambers to-night at 7.30. *****

The Socialist Labour Party of New York has passed resolutions favouring the Irish dynamitists, says a cable from New York. *****

A soldier was bayonetted to death at the London arsenal. He would not give the countersign to advance, in the

darkness, to the sentry, and the latter, on the stranger attempting to pass, stabbed him to death. An investigation showed that the tragedy was the result of a practical joke on the part of the. dead man.