FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21845, 6 July 1934, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD The following are extracts from the New Zealand Herald of July 7, 1884: The police, after a week's experience of the early closing: of the public houses, pronounce themselves greatly in favour of it. There are npw a third of the number of men arrested at night in the streets in a state of intoxication that there formerly were. The change on Saturday night was particularly agreeable. There is every prospect of an improvement in the new House that is to be elected. We shall almost to a certainty see in it Sir Julius Vogel, Mr. Stout, Mr. Ormond and probably Mr. Ballance. These are men who were not in the last Parliament, but they have all been in office. It is clear that when the House meets next month there will be two large forces, one under oir Julius Vogel and the other under Major Atkinson. ' Nothing has been decided yet concerning the disposal of the _ torpedo boats which Sir William Jervois is pre; paring for the Noav Zealand ctetcncc. The boats were mlered on the recommendation of Major-General Scratchleyi and it was originally intended there should be one for each of the four principal harbours. There seems to some doubt in the minds of experts as to whether one boat is likely to be much service attacking a hostile vessel single-handed.