THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” JANUARY 26, 1903. There were 291 names of trained nurses on the official register of the colony. Miss Ada Crossley, the Australian contralto, made a brilliant New York debut, the newspapers commenting enthusiastically on her singing. In his reply to a deputation at Auckland, Admiral Beaumont promised to bring before the Home authorities a suggestion to establish training ships at the principal Colonial ports. Sunday Island, in the Ivermadecs, was open for selection on lease in perpetuity at a rental of 2s 4d per acre per annum. The island contains 930 acres.
The Panama Canal Treaty provided that America should pay ten million dollars in gold, and annuities of 250,000 dollars, also the right to protect a zone six miles wide bordering the canal if Colombia could not do so. The canal was leased for a century, renewable at America’s option, Colombia also to have a say in the matter. The control of the waters from Colon to Panama was vested in America, which was to receive all port dues.
France had decided to discontinue sending convicts to New Caledonia from which a number of officers had been recalled.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 50, 26 January 1933, Page 2
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195THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 50, 26 January 1933, Page 2
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