FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20842, 8 April 1931, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD.

The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of April 7, 1881: New Zealand law a few years since made it penal in £SO to shoot a rabbit. Now the furry pests have decreased the wool shipments of Southland by onethird, and run carrying capabilities from 25,000 sheep to 8000. The Otago Daily Times says: As soon as the returns to the circular of the Bible-in-Schools Association have been tabulated, we propose giving some particulars of the result; but in the meantime we may mention that nearly 70 schools (including several of the Dunedin ones) have sent replies, and that these are largely in favour of the efforts of the association to have the Bible reintroduced into the public schools. The Bight Bev. Dr. Bedwood, Boman Catholic Bishop of Wellington, returned yesterday from his visit to Bome and met with an enthusiastic reception from his numerous parishioners. After New South Wales we have niore sheep than any of the Australian colonies. At the end of 1879 the figures stood as follows: —New South Wales, 29.043,492; New Zealand, 13,069,338; Victoria, 8,651,755: The improvement in travelling is shown bv the fact that in 1860 it took a passenger five days to go from New York to New Orleans; in 1880 one could go in 60 hours and 45 minutes.