25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 108, 31 January 1935, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Palmerston North Trams (From “The Dominion, ’’ January 29, 1910.) The Palmerston North Borough Council lias decided to call a public meeting to discuss an electric tram system for Palmerston. A proposal is also on foot to obtain electric energy for Palmerston by- harnessing a stream in the locality. The object of the latter departure would be to attract manufacturing industries. * # * The Maori church at Te Aral, famous for its r beautiful Maori carvings, with which tiie church walls were surrounded, lias been destroyed by fire. Incendiarism is suspected. Tiie church was one of the show places of the Poverty Bay district. ❖ * * Tiie floods in tiie upper readies of the Seine and the Marne are subsiding. Meanwhile one-fifth of Paris is inundated, and 100,000 workmen are idle. There is a popular belief that tiie new comet is Hie cause of the disaster. MW* Sir Edward Elgar, it is stated, is now working hard at his second symphony, and he hopes to have it completed by.the early part of next year. The prodigious success which has attended his first symphony might well have stimulated any composer to produce a second as speedily as possible, and in Elgar’s case it is only to lie regretted that he waited so long before producing his first. IIIIIIIIIIII'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIII"