FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20761, 2 January 1931, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD. The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of January. 2, 1881: A letter from the chairman of the South Auckland Cattle Board was read, relating to the time of quarantining imported cattle, and asking for the co-operiition of the board, at a meeting of the North Auckland Cattle Board. Resolved : "That the board agrees with the South. Auckland Board in recommending an extension of the time that imported stock should be quarantined, and suggests that the term should be 120 days from date of shipment." The stockholders of the Edison Electric Light Company have been assessed £l2 ft share to meet the expense of Edison's recent experiments. The trustees were to meet on November 30 to vote upon increasing the capital stock to £96,000 by the issue of 1800 additional shans. The stock has risen to £240 a share on a report that Edison will make public experiments with his invention preparatory to putting the light to practical use in New York. Some months ago, during the excitement over .Edison's invention, the shares sold at £920. Investors regard it as s. rather ticklish stock y> handlist. For the past eight or ten days the cold weather baa reminded one more oi 1 winter than midsummer. Early on Newears Eve there was a very severe gale of wind and rain, accompanied by a hea'ry hailstorm. The hail appeared to have swept across the district in a limited belt, Remuera and Ponsonby having apparently been out of the reach of this part of the storm. In some portions of the fuburbs, Newton for instance, the hailstones fell in very large quantities, and for some time the* boys 'in the district found a new and rare means of diversion, common enough in cold countries, but seldom witnessed here. In Carlton Gore Road, th«r& were three inches of snow and hail on tn* ground, and many children ' enjoyed a game of snowballing. During the 124 hoars ending at 9.30 a.m. on Christmas .Eve one inch of rain fell, a large portion cf which was due 'to the rain and hailstorm JtbouH 8 a.m., 7