FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21131, 14 March 1932, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD. The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of March 14, 1882: To comprehend the speech made by General Skobeloff at Paris, indicating that war between Russia and Germany is inevitable, and the summoning of Skobeloff to St. Petersburg to account for his utterance, it must be understood that the pan-Slavic organisation in Russia and the army are both stronger than the Tsar. The Emperor is strong enough to rebuke the general, but not strong enough to punish him. Read by the light of the past and the fact that the speech was coincident with the rising in Herzegovina against Austria, it is apparent that t-he pan-Slavic party can defy the authority of the Tsar.

The United States Government contemplates putting a restriction upon the influx of Chinese into jthe republic, and tha action of several of the Australian colonies in this respect is regarded by most classes of the - community as an example worthy of imitation, In San Francisco, there are 30,000 Chinese and, throughout California, almost 130,000. A thousand miles of railway between Omaha an' Ogden, and 800 miles between Ogden a' l ' San Francisco, were made exclusively by Chinese. It seems hard on the Chines* that they should thus be made use o' and then told to leave the country.

Guiteau, the assassin of President Uiu field, is to be hanged on June 30. tba being the end of the financial year. The United States Audit Department wishes to have all accounts in before July 1- ' Guiteau were not dealt with before thenthe ropemaker's bill would have to stand over for another year. " Red tape is stronger than rope.