FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD NEW REPEATING RIFLE The following are extracts from th# New Zealand Herald of February 11* 1883: The Gazette returns, which we publish to-day show that, whatever may be the outcome of the year in regard to customs, the December quarter exhibits a substantial increase in our exports and imports. . . It is not too much to expect that with the splendid harvest which is now being gathered, and with a stimulus of a new trade, namely, the frozen me ®. trade, the exports of the colony wu within a few months increase at a rapia rate. '[ A repeating rifle, constructed upon an entirely new system, has been on tria a Berlin for some time past an.d military authorities nre so far favourable to idea of its adoption as to have proposea . that it should now be introduced into one or more battalions for trial on a laiger In England it is compulsory for every bicycle to have a small bell attached, an a lamp at night in addition, The tyie the wheels being of hollow rub J )e ; r ' n{ noise is made to warn the P ede i stna f n .,°' their approach. Hence the necessity ot tne warning tinkling of the bell. According to Matthew Arnol French are wanting in morality, jQ mans in civil courage and the Eng 1 South American republic of CM threatening the federated States of bia with hostilities. , The electric current on a tel would traverse the length of the equator in two seconds.