FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21273, 29 August 1932, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of August 29, 1882 ~ The four torpedo-boats which have been telegraphed for by the Government should arrive in the Colony in three or four months. Colonel Scratchley recommends that the boats should be utilised for any general purposes that may present themselves. In any of the four ports tvhere torpedo corps are not formed a number of the Artillery Corps will have to act as a torpedo corps. Nothing fresh has transpired with regard to the defences of the Colony. The highway district of Ponsonby has now become an integral part of the city of Auckland. The New Zealand Gazette of the 17th instant contains the announcement of the receipt of the petitions from the Grafton and Karangahape highway districts praying to be incorporated with the city. One remarkable feature of late regarding the leading thoroughfares out of the city is that the ground is becoming too valuable to be used for the erection of buildings for letting purposes, and that where buildings exist they are being removed or pulled down in order to make way for business premises. One of the latest instances of the kind is up in Victoria Street where Mr. James, the builder, is removing some tenements in order to replace them with a block of three shops two storeys in height.