THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 24, 1905.

In the course of a reference to other matters it was Bated-.-“ Supreme. Court procedure is still sufficiently new in Palmerston North to attract large crowds to the Court when it is sitting. The steamer Falcon, plying between Thames and Coromandel, had gone ashore halfway between those two points. No lives had been lost. . ~, Women in New Zealand had enjoyed the franchise for 12 years. , . The New Zealand Government had arranged to distribute advice sent officially from London, of the rqiulhs of the New Rugby team’s matches in Jimgland through all telegraph and telephone stations, as in' the case of war news. It had been urged that tho Chinese employed on the Rand should be restricted to their compounds, but that was stated io be impossible under the ordinances, even if it was desirable. . Allegations were being made in France that plans of a submarine had been sold to Germany, as the latter country had built the exact counterpart of a French sub"’it’wis stated that the Australian Government had contracted with a firm m that country for the supply of all but very large requirements in steel requisites.