FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21329, 2 November 1932, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of November 2, 1882: A telegram from Dunedin states that the Rotomahana has gone into dock in order that the damage she sustained while she was on the rocks inside the Bluff Harbour on Sunday last (October 29) might bo ascertained. As soon as the dock was pumped out an examination was made, when it was found that the damage was far more serious than was anticipated. The vessel certainly made no water, but the cause of this, no doubt, was the fact that the most serious damage is under the water ballast tanks, which are full of water. The whole of the damage is on the port side, a little abaft midships, under her machinery. The vessel is expected to be ready for sea again in a fortnight. Sir F. D. Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand in London, is arranging to send 1000 female domestic servants from Eng land to this colony. Some new gas lamps have been tried at Lyttelton. They have opal tops and brass reflectors and are found to give an unusually bright light at the expense of less than twice the amount of gas consumed by ordinary burners. The new arrangement is an admirable one for working steamers at night and for lighting the wharves, and is not much more costly than the existing system.