FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21401, 27 January 1933, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD, TELEPHONE SUBSCRIBERS The follo'ving are extracts from New Zealand Herald of January ». 1883: ■- 1 The last batch of new subscribers 0 the telephone exchange have had th® business premises at last connected the central station. There are now 135 su scribers in nil. The only bank hitherto with the telephone exchange been the Bank of New Zealand but t Union Bank has now made aPl )llcatl ° and probably the others will now see necessity of keeping pace with tne A message from Paris states- t« committee appointed by tl ' e ., I C ! ia , nr ] uC eo Deputies to consider the bill mtiod. by the Government dealing witn question of the Bonapartist has decided that the measures should vide that all Bonapartista should be » iered from the army and e:xp< lieu the country. , j t b« The Bank, of England has reduced rate of discount from sto 4. per c • At the 'Police Court yesterday, , seamen of the barque Famenoth w J of: tenced to six months' imprisonm broaching and embezzling car SfV . queer thing about the case was t cargo broached was a casu boots,, .some, pi -which were, - dis«S u ' ur : i among th* bdj; paewogwf*