THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1936, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” JUNE V, 1906. News had been received in New Zealand from Sydney, shortly before noon, that’ Rt. Hon. R- J- Scddon, I rcmici of the Colony, had passed away on bond shin tho previous day when returning to New Zealand. He had died when the vessel was 140 miles from the Heads and an' immediate return had been then made with tho flag at half-mast. Ihe cause of death had been heart failure and it was proposed that when the body had boon embalmed it was to bo hi ought o Now Zealand by tho came steamer, the Oswestry Grange. . As tho result- of new regulations entoreing inspection hv Government officers, the moat packing firms in Chicago had been forced to spend millions of dollars in improvements. . Suggestions had been made by .lie principal of the Auckland Training College that tho system of training pupil teachers should be changed so that they were given instruction prior to being put in charge of a class and so that night study for examinations would he eliminated. Spearmint, a colt with a Carbine—Maid of the Mint parentage, had followed his win in tho Derby with victory in the Grand Prix do Paris. Tho French event was worth £9934.