FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20690, 9 October 1930, Page 10

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD. The following are extracts from th 9 Nfw Zealand Hi n.u.u of October 9, 1880: The Tinirs says thai General Skobelof? is returning t<• St. Petersburg to tak® command of the Russian Army in lbs even! of an invasion of Turkey being dacirled upon by the Great rowers. A meeting of Orangemen has been held at Portadown, County of Armagh, Ireland, to express sympathy with the Rev.' Mr. Kane, who recently suggested the shooting of priests and Catholics in retaliation for the attacks upon the land* lords.

More than of any other city in tha colony are our ever-extending suburbs » striking characteristic of Auckland. This feature has attracted the attention of many travellers. The city is small in area, but at the present lime it is more densely, populated than any other equal area in the. colony. Hut the suburban districts ara growing rapidly, and probably in the course of a few years many of these suburban villages will have, joined with each other and some of them with th® city proper. Indeed, if (he present rata of filling up the districts around the city continues only a few years will elapaa before a stranger will have difficulty in distinguishing where the, city ends, and Parnell, Remuera, Newmarket, fcpsom* Newton, Ponsonbv, Archhill, Mount EdeSj Mount Albert, and even the Whau bagiUi