25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Electrical Novelties (From “The Dominion,” January 20, 1910.) Still another consignment of electrical novelties iu the shape of copper kettles, frying pans, stew pans and hot water jugs has come to hand by the steamer Rnahine, to the order of the Wellington city electrical department. The novelties have been placed in the Harris Street showroom for exhibition purposes. Mr. A. Deakin, Australian Prime Minister, in a speech at Ballarat, said that by the help of Lord Kitchener’s judgment and knowledge lie hoped to evolve a defence scheme which would to them, without an idle sacrifice of their young manhood in the last emergency. Notwithstanding the fact that the present is the best time of the year for work, there is a good deal of unemployment in Wellington city. Seekers after billets appear to look upon the Mayor as a universal provider, and the Mayoral doorstep can generally be taken as a more or less reliable barbmeter of the unskilled labour‘market. v * * I Mr. C. W. Palmer told a "Dominion” reporter yesterday that... he was shown a letter from the Archdeacon of Bombay. In this letter the Archdeacon alluded to the German menace and the widespread sedition in India, ana said: “You may take it from me that, in the event of a war w’ith Germany or any other European Power, within a few hours of th: first reverse suffered by British arms, every white throat in India would be cu from ear to ear.”