FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21793, 7 May 1934, Page 6

FIFTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of May 7, 1884: The meeting held at the Chamber of Commerce yesterday for the purpose of inspecting and testing the samples of cheese from the several factories in the Auckland district was both interesting and important. The information supplied respecting the pew industry bv the chairman, Mr. Firth, and Mr. Bowron, Government inspector of cheese factories, will be found useful to the public and especially to those engaged in farming pursuits. Like every new industry, this of cheese making has its preliminary difficulties, the primary one in this instance being that of placing the article in the foreign market at prices which will be remunerative. It is gratifying to know that the quality of the various cheeses submitted was declared by experts to be very satisfactory. They were not all, perhaps, of very high quality but all were far above the average. We may hope that the day is not distant when New Zealand cheese will take high rapk in the London market.

It is.announced that Michael Davitt. the Irish Nationalist agitator, has decided to leave the United -Kingdom and settle in Australia. Davitt has lost a good deal of his popularity in Ireland owing to his undisguised jealousy of Mr. Parnell. He is, however, the abler man of the two, a forcible speaker, a good writer and a deep thinker. General Gordon has penned an extraordinary despatch.- He charges the Government with indelible disgrace, in not taking any means to save the Khartoum garrison, and says their abandonment of himself crowns the climax of,, their meanness. -