THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 88, 12 March 1935, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” MARCH 12, 1905. About 50 residents had attended a meeting at which various methods of protecting the, Hokowhitu area from further encroachment by the Manawatu River were discussed. The Mayor explained that a system of protection had already been formulated, and would be carried out with a loan of £2OOO to be spread over the whole borough and not charged to a special rating area at Hokowhitu. What was described as the most important discovery in Egypt to date had been made with the finding by an official of the Egyptian Exploration Fund of the tomb of Tua, undisturbed since the Eighteenth Dynasty. Numbers of sheep were being taken from the North Island to Canterbury, fattened there and exported as Canterbury sheep. Many of those imported wore to make up the deficiencies caused by large exports from the Canterbury province. Further details of the Japanese success showed that they had used forced marches of 25 miles a day to envelope a Russian force numbering 200,000 and had then commenced a crushing attack. The Japanese) had occupied positions north of Mukden and cut off the Russian supplies to south of that area. A London message said that Britain had reduced the Hull fishermen’s claims in respect to injuries and loss suffered when the Russian Fleet fired on the fishing boats on the Dogger Bank to £65,000 from £IOO,OOO. The reduced amount had been paid over.