FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21232, 12 July 1932, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD*

The following are extracts fro® New Zealand Herald of Juty 1882 ftVff The Telegraph Department have D connected all the recent subscribers to the Telephone Exchange with tho cen r office save some half-dozen, an fitted up their premises with telephoneThere are now about 86 subscribers. Dunedin the "century" has e reached in the Telephone Exchange, that a similar result has not been ac 1 in Auckland is not through any lac* enterprise on the part of tKfe cominu , but owing to the weary three m° waiting for telephones. As usu > South had to be attended to first. Our latest telegraphic message* Alexandria and London sho he( j j n turning point has at last bee < the affairs of Egypt. " fixed when Admiral Seymour w the bombardment of oa In the English House of Common July 10 tho Premier took last fer to the hint he threw out a h meeting of the House thai «l deem it necessary to resign, Governsequence of the rejection o j r jsh ment's proposed amendmen Repression Bill. Mr- , Gl ff that after consideration he ha bad accept the vote of the House abandoned any mtention of g natives Two Maori chiefs, delegated &J ion in New Zealand to } pe int ing Her Majesty (Queen VictouaK P. race out the injustice done to n ments by the dealings of successive govern with the lands of the colony, ai in London. .