FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20760, 31 December 1930, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD

The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of December 31, 1880: It has leaked out that the object, of Captain Knollys' mission to Parihaka was to invite Te Whiti to meet the Governor in either Wellington or Taranaki, to discuss the native grievance, and that Te Whiti responded with a polite refusal, on the ground that "the potato is cooked." and therefore there was no move to be said on the subject. Te Whiti insists that, he is a cooked potato and that. it. would be absurd for the potato under the circumstances to enter into any discussion with the fire which cooked it. He says the Government have cooked him by imprisoning his followers and settling their land; therefore as he disputes their right to do either, there is no use in arguing about other grievances until those more serious ones have been removed. New Zealand was ahead of England in establishing steam tramways in towns, and it is probable' that she will have her telephones in working order before the Home telegraph authorities have succeeded in accomplishing the work. The matter of providing a public and volunteer hall for Hamilton has been again and again before the public and fallen . through, although a considerable sum of money is in hand, raised by a church bazaar sone two years a.c;o, a grant of £IOO from the' Government and large promised subscriptions from the volunteers and others. We have had some curious lawsuits in Auckland, but ono recently took place in Sydney which i$ especially uniqueAlexander Graff entered an action aen i list Frederick Lee, on the ground that defendant's fig tree shut out a certain portion of sunshine, which by right ought to fall on the complainant's property. At Mr. Arthur's fruit sale, the fnllowing prices were realised: —Oranges,. 10s to lis 6d per case; apples, 5s to 9s; pears, 3s to 6s; plums, to Is OJjd per lb.; peaches, 5s 9d per case. It is said that two eminent Oxford men are likely to go over to Rome in consequence of the Jesuit mission just held in the university city. The sermons preached by the Jesuits were largely attended by the graduates at the Protestant University, which in these latter days has supplied two eminent cardinals, Newman and Manning, to the Holy Roman Church.