Fifty Years Ago

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 August 1935, Page 11

Fifty Years Ago

EXTRACTS FROM “HAWERA STAR” AUGUST 23, 1885. As an instance of tlie rapidity with which letters can now be sent and received from the Home country, we to-day received a reply to correspondence sent from here on June 4 last. The boat arrived at Plymouth on July 14, and the" answer* left London on July 16, so that tlie total time taken was eighty days. *****

Recently the Home Secretary (Mr R. Cross), with a large party of fol lowers, made a tour of the London slums of Shaldwell and Holborn, dis tributing sixpences and good advice with great prodigality. An official account of the tour was sent from the Home Office to various newspapers in London. The Libei’al journals call this posing to win the masses. * w » * * Mr Gladstone, in a message to Manchester electors, expresses iiis confident belief that newly enfranchised electors will show their preference for liberal men and liberal measures. He looks forward with assured confidence to the result of the general election. ***** According to the Wellington pi-ess Inspector Goodall has received n cheque for £25 as his share in the reward for finding out the illicit still in Hawera about six months ago. * * * * * The Maoris are making excellent progress with the new inland road near Parihaka, and have finished all but a mile of it. AY present none of the Armed Constabulary are at work road making, all being in camp, as the winter |s. deemed -unsuitable for such work. ***** The last passage of the Ivaikoura from New Zealand has eclipsed anything preceding, the vessel having made the fastest run ever, between the colony and Efngland. The total length of the passage was 37 days 9 houi's 40 minutes, the actual steaming time being 36 days 10 minutes. ***** The Taranaki Acclimatisation Society’s order of 1000 American brown trout came to band from Christchurch on Monday. They had been six days on the way up, and fully a quarter of them died before reaching here. After ring kept in ponds here for seven or eight months they will bo distributed about the district.