FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20950, 13 August 1931, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD. The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of August 13, 1881: it is said that several persons in Auckland will avail themselves of the: provisions of -Sir George Grey's Law P rac * titioners* Act if ifc comes into force. A statement is current that the members oi the New Zealand Law • Society propose' to meet Sir George's attempt to open tna avenues to the profession by, the counter move of fixing the premiums of articled pupils at 100 guineas. Mr. Bartiey, the architect for this new Weslevan Church in Hamilton, arrived there yesterday and laid off the site oi the proposed building. It will be placed on the Victoria Street side of the present church building and will face Co'llingwood Street. ' 1 In the House of Lords, on August 11, the Right Hon. Earl Kimberley stated that the British Government had decide not to sever any portion of the Transvaa occupied by the Boers from the territory which had' been assigned to the oout" African Republic by the Transvaal oon vention. • „ The Pollard Troupe's new attraction, " Les Cloches de Corneville." gams popularity nightly. Last evening the was crowded and for two portions ot ■ house money had to be refused. - f were no fewer than seven encores, w ' looks very much like demanding ow P cent, more value for the money .* Among the young ladies and g e^ tle ® * who thus gave so many formances were the Misses May ro > Maud Pollard and Julia Simmons, M "Masters Herbert Salinger, Shehan and tn brothers Osmond.