THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” NOVEMBER 24, 1902.
A new system of typewriting evidence liad been introduced at the criminal sittings of the Supreme Court at Christchurch. The department had requested that the experiment be made. Mr Seddon had communicated with the Premier of New South Wales asking for particulars of persons who might be in distress consequent upon tlio loss of relatives in the Elingamite wreck. The opinion was expressed by Mr Gow, the New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Victoria, that the Colony’s produce had a good opening in South Africa.
A prize to the value of £BOO was to be given annually, under the will of the late Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, “to students or inventors adjudged to have done the most during the year to benefit humanity.” The Liverpool Tropical Association received it in 1902 for malarial researches. A London cable stated that Marconi had confirmed the receipt of a -wireless message from Cape Breton to Cornwall. It was reported that Clem Hill, the noted cricketer, intended to settle in South Africa after concluding the season in Australia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 306, 24 November 1932, Page 2
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