FIFTY YEARS AGO
extracts From the herald FLOODS IN GERMANY The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of February 8, 1883: — The movements of Earl Spencer, the Lord-Lieutenant -of Ireland, appear to be attracting a good deal of attention. It is now stated that on the occasion of his recent departure from Dublin he was accompanied by a detective for personal protection. On arriving in London, His Excellency had a conference with Ministers at a Cabinet meeting, bu&. the nature of the consultation has not transpired. By the floods which have lately visited a great part of Western Germany, many thousands of people have been rendered homeless, and millions worth of property has been destroyed. The German Parliament has voted a considerable amount of money for the relief of the sufferers, and a great number of committees have devoted themselves to this charitable purpose. The calamity, however, exceeds the efforts of Germany alone, and appeals for help have been made to foreign countries. The new ironworks at Onehunga have been started successfully, and wroughtiron "blooms" are now being made from Manukau ironsand.
A. man and a woman were burned to death last night in a fire which broke out on several premises at the foot of Wakefield Street. The premises involved were Sandall's butcher's shop, which had been unoccupied for a fortnight, White i restaurant, where the fire broke out, Mrs. Burke's bellows-making establishment and Mr. Leadbeater's store. It is proposed to open the Mornington wire tramway line in Dunedin foi traffic on February 22. This is the second of these lines in Dunedin, the_ other running to Roslyn. Both Mornington and Roslyn are suburbs at the top of a steep bill, and an English wire, worked by steam engines, draws the cars. Ih® Roslyn line is a single one, and travels at five and a-half miles an hour; but the Mornington one is double, and will travel at seven miles an hour. Both suburbs about a mile from the centre of the city-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21411, 8 February 1933, Page 6
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