THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 256, 26 September 1935, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” SEPTEMBER 26, 1905.

The New Zealand Rugby football fcam had beaten Bristol by 41 points to nil. „An l,nusi,a ' murder had taken place at Wellington where a white man, who held pronounced views on the admittance of the Eastern races to New Zealand, had shot a Chinaman in Haining Street, lie later gave himself up It had been stated authoritatively that Australia would welcome the 5000 immigrants General Booth had said he could scud out from England. A cheese weighing a ten, which had been sent to the Colonial Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, had been cut up and divided between the Salvation Army Homes and Dr Barnai-do’s Homes. Under a heading “A New Gibraltar” a London newspaper had commented on the British Government’s intentions as to the fortification of Singapore.

A Commission of Inquiry on tho conduct of the French Congo had disclosed that many brutalities were practised on the natives.

The Chatham, a steamer carrying 70 tons of dynamite, had sunk in iho Suez Canal, and it . was proposed to blow the vessel up with the aid of electricity from a distance of two miles.