FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20962, 27 August 1931, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD* The following are extracts from ths New Zealand Herald of August 27$ 1881: At Milan has been constructed, at 9 cost of 100,000 lire, a monster which will convey 20 persons. Lord Lonsdale was to have started oO his Arctic exploration in the middle o| June. He engaged another yacht, as hfl| did not consider his own equal to the joh* He has not decided whether to attempt the exploration of the North West Pass* age; but his intention is to get as near a| he can to the North Pole. At the request of some of his constitiH ents, Mr. Moss, M.H.R., has interviewed the Minister of Public Works, with thai view of widening the lane which bounds the Newmarket station grounds. Ths widening and carrying through of thi| road will be a great benefit to the resw dents of Hobson's Bay as it will give 3 " short cut" to the railway station. At the request of the burgesses of On®* hunga and many influential ratepayers in( the Mount Roskill, Epsom and One Treei Hill highway districts, a public meeting has been called to consider the dangerous state of the Auckland-Onehunga Road* This condition has often been pointed and recently the capsize of an omnibnj and injuries to a number of passenger* testify to the state of- the road. Thfil Government are solely to blame for thi| state of things. They collect the tolls* amounting to nearly £2OOO a year, and spend scarcely anything to keep it in re* „ pair and widen the dangerous, narrofl} banks. :