Fifty Years Ago To-day

Southland Times, Issue 22921, 20 June 1936, Page 6

Fifty Years Ago To-day

(From Hie Southland Times). JUNE '2O, 1886. The New Hebrides.—The landing of French soldiers in the New Hebrides, says the Agent-General in a telegram to the Government, has produced a sensation at Home. And so it well might. France seems to have taken a lesson out of Russia’s book, and to be treating the Gladstone Government as the Irishman treated the policeman—with contempt. The Millenium Approaches.—A Bill has been presented in the French Chamber of Deputies to abolish the legal profession as a business. Under the proposed new state of affairs every litigant is to conduct his own case or get a friend to do so for him. The judges are to study the law and be well paid for it, but lawyers are to be done away with. Accident at Avondale.— The Western Star reports that a very serious accident happened to Mr J. C. Rowley, of Avondale station, the effect of which causes grave anxiety to his friends. It appears that some men were engaged cutting a track in the side of the hill at the rear of the homestead. Mr Rowley was standing on the flat below the 'track when a large stone became detached, and, rolling down the hill in a zig-zag manner, struck him on the side of the forehead, fracturing his skull in two places. The Bishop of Madagascar.—A distinguished prelate, the Bishop of Madagascar, arrived at the Bluff yesterday, where he was met by Mr W. B. Scandrett, as representative of the Church of England authorities. In the evening the Right Rev. gentleman preached at St. John’s.