THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 2

THIRTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” OCTOBER 2, 1910. Winners at the finst day of the Wanganui Jockey Club’s spring meeting were Hon. J. I). Ormond’s Faunus, Mr E. J. Watts’ Cheddar, Mr D. G. Greenwood’s Danube (Wanganui Guineas), Mr J. R. McDonald’s Tauira, Mr T. Cameron’s Te Whetu, Mr W. Palliser’s St. Toney, and Mr G. Castles’ Clemora. ■lt # was reported at the second annual meeting of the Shannon Dairy Company that 170 tons of_ butter had boen manufactured the previous seas- n. An extract, from a leading article stated: The dreams of .Zeppelin, the veteran German airman,; appeared to have vanished into thin air. For yearn past he lias been the darling of . the German people. In him they saw one who was" offering ,a. short cut to the fulfilment of their dream of world supremacy. . , t A French submarine had carried out a record voyage of 1400 miles without a hitch.