Fifty Years Ago

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 24 August 1935, Page 7

Fifty Years Ago

EXTRACTS FROM “HAWERA STAR” AUGUST 27, 1880. The Taranaki police district, which was formerly bounded on the south by the Wlienuakura River, has been extended to the Waitotara River. Mr Pardy has now charge of Taranaki, Clifton, Kawhia, Patea and Hawera Counties. * * * * ¥ Mr Stoufc asserted in the House yesterday! that if Major Atkinson was forming a Government to-morrow he would be perfectly willing to take Sir Julius Yogel into his Cabinet. If the House desired a repetition of the Continuous Ministry, let them do so. He said the Government, when the time came, would not he ashamed of the record they would leave behind them. * * * * *

On the Manaia football ground the following ten will play all-comers:— Bolger, Coad, Dcegan, W. Good, Hair, Kivell, McCarty, Newsham, Rogers, and Stewart. A full muster of allcomers is requested. *** * * * * *

“It is now an open secret that the Cabinet has decided to appoint Sir Julhfb Vogel Agent-General on the expiracy of Sir Dillon Bell’s term in January next,” says the Wellington “Evening Post.” We have a shrewd suspicion that this is founded on the fertile political imagination of the writer. **n m * * Gold has been discovered in the Rangitoto mountains in the King Country. It is proposed, as a means of relieving the depression, and encouraging the settlement of the interior, that the King Country be declared open to gold prospectors. ***** The orders calling hack three regiments of British troops from Egypt to England have been cancelled by the War Office. The troops, however, had already' embarked, and remain on board the transport awaiting instructions.