FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21579, 25 August 1933, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of August 25, 1883: The weather up to yesterday morning was the most inclement that has been experienced in August for many years, if, indeed, its severity has been equalled since the foundation of the colony. In the vicinity of Auckland it appeared in a bitterly cold southerly rain, and we are told that many low-conditioned cows were unable to hear it and have died from its consequences. A little further south it must have been still colder, as snow covered the tops of some of the hills at the back of Drury and Piikekohe in such quantities as to be plainly visible from any point on the South Road near the Harp of Erin. This is the first time that any of our settlers remember seeing snow nearer to Auckland than Pirongia Mountain. The victory announced from Paris of the French in Tonquin turns out to s have been no victory, but a serious defeat. The news has caused great excitement in Canton. Placards have been posted in the city urging a massacre or the Europeans. Cetewayo is collecting his force on the Natal border, and the British troops are about to proceed .to the Zululaud frontier.