FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD CORONATION OF THE TSAR The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of April 9, 1883: What seems to be the most important event on the European Continent is the apprfijtching coronation of the Tsar. Although Russia has ceased to bo the bugbear that she was 50 years ago, nevertheless there is a real danger of a war to unite under Russian supremacy, the outside countries by kindred populations. If the Tsar can still continue to depend on the mass of the peasantry and the army raised from it, who look on the Tsar as their priest and the "Father of Holy Russia," then indeed revolution will be impossible. A disturbance took place on Monday on the Rotorua road, about three miles from Ohinemutu, between a portion of the constabulary force and the Maoris. It would appear that a party of men are surveying the district, and aroused the ire of a hale old Maori damsel, who cried out vigorously that she would not permit the Europeans to survey her land. She rushed at a man holding a survey pole and broke it over his head. The constabulary '.'collaJ*d her, but she resisted to such a degree that she broko free, and the natives came to her assistance and took her away. The first cases under the compulsory clauses of the Education Act, tried at Wellington on March 24, were passed without costs, but parents were remindted that in the event of their no sending their children to school, in obedience to the order of the Court, they were liable to a fine of 40s. The public will be glad to hear tha there is a speedy prospect ot getting rid of \that hideous eyesore in Alber Park —the old Armoury—and that tne outrage its presence occasions to nne Mr. Bryee calls "the aesthetic fee - ings of the people of Auckland, w not nduch longer have to be endured.