FIFTY YEARS AGO
EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD The following nre extracts from the New Zealand Herald of May 20, 1881: — It is stated in our cable messages to-dav that reports have reached Cairo that the British agent at Berber, who had left that city and was endeavouring to reach Upper Egypt, has been captured by the rebels near Abu Ha met. , . , m . n . , I?ear-Admiral Sir Frederick William Richards has been appointed to the command of the Australian station. This is the first, time that an admiral has been appointed to this station. Ihe appointment may be taken as a proot of the growing importance of the colonies. regarded from an Imperial point °St is stated to.be the intention of the Minister of Public Works to reorganise the working of the■ I • * ■ Department. It is believed that the changes contemplated will lend to t. more profitable results than at present while the lines will be made to son e better the interests of country settleisThe North German Llovd Loyal Mail Steamship Company have the German Government to "luleitnk a subsidised mail service to Austr. and the Kast. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21804, 19 May 1934, Page 8
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