FIFTY YEARS AGO
EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of Julv 26, 1883: Cholera is raging in Alexandria ami at lsmailia, and the latest reports from Cairo state- that the British troops stationed there have been attacked by the epidemic, and are tinder immediate orders to leave the city. Mr. Gladstone has stated in the House of Commons that Count do Lesseps did not possess the monopoly °e r wa . ter " wa y through every part of Lgypt, but only through the country directly forming the Isthmus of Suec. Through the exertions of Mr. Mackelne > Auckland is to obtain a number of articles which will be of very great interest. An application for some specimens of ancient armour lving at the lower was made to the Colonial Office, then to the Secretary of War, and as a result Auckland is to have pot helmets and cuirasses of the Cromwellian time, breast-plates and back-plates, and other such articles of defensive warfare as would have delighted the heart of Dugald Dalgetty, together with flintlock blunderbusses and specimens of the " brown Bess " with which so many of Britain s glorious victories were Won.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 6
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197FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 6
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