THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD,” JULY 24, 1906.
The most destructive fire ever experienced in Rongotca had destroyed premises owned by -Messrs Sutton?. The places burned had been an ironmonger’s shop, an implement warehouse, a plumbers shop, a furniture storo, and two dwellings. Floods had prevented coaches running from Foxton to Levin and Shannon lor several davs. -Mails had been taken to Levin partly by launch. \Y G Grace, the cricketer, had scored 74 runs on his 58th birthday in the match Gentlemen v. Flavors. The will of the South African millionaire, Sir Alfred Beit, had created a fund of el 200,000 for the construction of a railway telegraph line from the Cape to Cairo. The sum of £200,000 had been left toward the establishment of a university at Johannesburg. . prominent racing sire, Sir Laddo, had been imported into the Colony by 1 almerston North interests.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 24 July 1936, Page 2
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147THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 24 July 1936, Page 2
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