THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 230, 29 August 1932, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” AUGUST 29, 1902.

In the cricket match between the Australian touring cricket team and Middlesex, Australia’s first innings closed for 232 runs (Dumper 69. Noble 40, Armstrong 39). Middlesex had lost one wicket for 15 runs in their second innings. The match saw Trumper reach the 2000 mark in his runs during the tour. At the third annual dinner of the Dairy Farmers’ Union's milk suppliers at Stoney Creek, Mr Parsons, chairman of directors, announced that the September and October butterfat advances would be lOd and 9jd respectively, an advance of ljd on the same montlis of the previous year. The Palmerston North Society for the Promotion of Bible Reading in Schools decided to take a plebiscite within the borough on the question. A deputation of small Wellington shopkeepers waited on the actingPremier, Sir Joseph Ward, with the request that the law be not amended in the direction of early closing, as most of their business was transacted after 6 p.m. It was reported from Paris that Britain was Frances best customer, the transactions leaving a balance of £24.000,000 in favour of the French.