FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM ‘ STAR ' FILES Sir Julius Vogel’s son, who is a pupil at the Charterhouse School (England), carried off the Spencer Cup (given by Earl Spencer to the best_ shot in the public schools of the United. Kingdom) at the recent Wimbledon meeting. « * * * Advices from Sicily state that cholera is increasing to an alarming extent in Palermo. * * « * The following office-bearers for the ensuing year were elected by the Otago Rowing Club; —President, Mr L. 0. Beal; vice-president, Mr James Mills; captain, Mr S. B. Gibson; deputycaptain, Mr St. J. Branigan; secretary, Mr W. J. Mayd; treasurer, Mr H. A. Le Cren; committee—Messrs Dick, Dawson, Beal, jun., Ashcroft, W. Mills, and Trythall. * * * * « The Cromwell paper records the death of Mrs M'Kinley, who. as Mrs Norman, was the first white woman to set foot in the "Otago Central district, having settled at Wanaka in 1860. * * « * Eight persons in all have been placed in quarantine in connection with the outbreak of smallpox at Randwick (Sydney). It is believed that the disease was contracted originally by the mother some weeks ago, .** » * The second deposit of £IOO a side in the approaching twelve-hour walking match between J. Scott and A. Hancock was made last night with the stakeholder, Mr C. Hood Williams, secretary and treasurer to the Lyttleton Harbour Board. There is now £3OO staked, and the final deposit of £IOO a side is due on the 19th prox. Scott and Austin leave for Christchurch next week, and the match will be walked there on the 26th prox. , * «■ «- * In reviewing the position of the Ministry during the session the ‘ Post-’ (which is the Ministerial organ) says: “ The Ministry was a Government only in name. It had responsibility without power, and was used as a buffer to repeat the advances of Major Atkinson It was kept in office in order to keep Major Atkinson or_ Sir George Grey out. We are surprised that members of the Government submitted to the indignities of the position, although we are certainly glad that they did not give way to _ a Ministry formed from the other side. But had they taken another stand on a firmer position, the same end might, we believe, have been secured in a less objectionablo_ manner. The events of last session have done much to bring representative government, in this colony, into contempt.