THIRTY YEARS AGO

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 9 April 1934, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” APRIL 9, 1904. Following- the satisfactory working oi the sugar bounties convention, some 5000 acres had been planted in sugar beet in Ireland. An attempt bad been made to murder King Alfonso of Spain when he was visiting Barcelona. Two persons had been injured by a bomb. A mob in a Bulgarian village had stormed the local ghetto and plundered and maltreated the Jews. Six had died. Some 26 years before, Mr L. S. Jameson had gone to South Africa as a quiet young Scotsman. At the end of that time, after a most colourful political career, he occupied the position of Prime Minister. He left a medical practice worth £SOOO a yeat to further the interests and prosperity oi the Cape. Arrangements had been made for the acceleration of the earriago of mails from Australia to England by 24 hours. Russia had decided upon economies resulting in the saving of £14,000,000 yearly, which sum was to bo devoted to the prosecution of the war with Japan. Sheep trucks had been blown off the line near Manakau by the high 'winds of a storm. The loss of feed was thought to be serious, while the only telegraph communication Palmerston North had _ with Wellington was by way of the Wairarapa or to Wanganui and from there through the South Island cable. In consequence of the large number of working exhibits it was anticipated that the Winter Show Committee would have to consider providing more shafting off which they could be driven. Something like 50 horse power was required to drive them. Speaking at a farewell social tendered him at the Broad Street Methodist Church, Rev. S. Lawry said that, it was 27 years before that the congregation had welcomed their first minister. Tho annual meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union showed that 165 members’ subscriptions had been received, while there was a credit balanco of £3.