FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21533, 3 July 1933, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO

extracts from the herald The following are extracts from th# Xkw Zkai.anp Hi:kai.i> of -Inly * ISS.'i: \t a dinner ot the Colxicn Club m London, Sir Saul Samuel, Agcnt; Genoral for New South Wales, express* an opinion that the Australian colonies would soon federate and adopt a polW of free trade. He doubted whether protection had reall.v great!y benefited Victoria, while New South Wales «* never imposed duties for protectee p" noses but simplv for revenue purposes. Sir WiUia.n Hay added that Australia, if federated 011 a free trade basis, wou beat the world , The county cricket clubs irt refuse to arrange for matches with another Australian team, if the latter 1 to take half tiie receipts from tne stands, hut will he ready to \arra"3 for matches on the old basis. „ The Right Hon.I H. liourke, for King's Lynn, has given notice motion in the House of Commons tn« the construction of a second ca across the Isthmus of Suez would t be satisfactory unless the rates ot t are reduced, and British interests a quatelv represented on the Board Control. , hfl There were so many visitors to x. lonic at Christcliurch yesterday as interfere with the work on board, a ... no one will be allowed on again untu a few days have elapsed. The committee appointed to sC \ the election of a bishop for Sydney - in daily expectation of a eomnuinica from iOngland 011 the subject.