FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21506, 1 June 1933, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD ANTI-JEWISH AGITATION Tie following; are extracts from the Nev Zualaxd Herald of Juno It 188!!: Telegrams are. to hand reporting that the anti-Jewish agitation at Rostoir, in Russia, continues. Tlie Jewish quarter of the town has been plundered ancl burned, and hundreds of Jews have bee driven from their homes. .. , , A cablegram front New York, elate May 30, states: The Suspension Bridge, between New York and Brooklyn, v.hu was recently opened, was crowded wit people to-day, whin cries arose that 1 wast unsafe, and a stampede Many people were trampled underto , and several were killed. An important work by the piur y Department bias now been eoriipletci thfi laying ofl: of a number of »arms < improved roa(!iis out of the Crown lan of the Nortlieote district. A very useful road, which will ere long be a «• " ou:,-ite one, is the road turning °5, tho cut hill, hearing toward Long ani joining the Okura Hoad. :md wluch effscts a gres.t saving in the dista to the Hot Springs. _ , , The approach at the BirkenheWharf is receiving timely attent'on. The cliff front is being faced with larwj stone, and the road is to be co • with scoria. We notice several patches! of grass abouib the district, ana neve h(!uses t