FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21100, 6 February 1932, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD.

The following are extracts from the •New Zealand Herald of February 7, 1882: ' 3^ The annual nleeting of the Auckland Gas Company was held yesterday, and a very satisfactory report and balance-sheet were presented by the directors. A dividend of 16 per cent, was declared. The total receipts from the year's operations were £12,470 and the expenditure £7176, leaving a balance to profit of £5294. A proposal to extend the company's operations to North Shore and further into the suburbs was discussed, but the matter was deferred. The additional quarantine station ft"' Auckland is gazetted. The following is the schedule:—" A radius cf one cable's length from a hulk moored off Hobson s Bay." The Tsar has signed a ukase, in accordance with which payments bv peasants on account of the lands they received at the time of their emancipation will be reduced by 120,000,000 roubles a year. The London News, discussing the Panama Canal enterprise, hopes the pr°" tectorate, in which Europe can have n° share, will be no more heard of. "Blaineism is probably destined to become America like Jingosim here, and Chauvinism in France—the name of a temporary aberration from political reason." Emigration from Germany to is assuming® vast proportions; 15, tickets have already been taken for vesse* leaving Bremen in the spring, and g | equal number go from Hamburg.