FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 22459, 2 October 1936, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

From * Star ’ Files. The new Presbyterian Church at. Lawrence was formally opened on Sunday last, the Rev. Dr Stuart conducting the service. The building is of brick and cement, and in point of architecture is very like the East Taieri church. • • • The Wellington “ ghost ” has been caught, and turns out to be a young man who gave his name when captured by the police. The residents’of Thorndon Ward in that city had, according to all accounts, been greatly annoyed by the nightly glimpses afforded of his ghostship, who always succeeded in evading capture. The police are unable to institute proceoding§, as the extent of the disguise assumed by the young man captured did not render him amenable to the Police Offences Act. * * * * During September 210 males and 113 females arrived at Port Chalmers from the United Kingdom. Of these seven arrived by the ship Westland, 309 by the Tainui, and six by the Wairoa. * * * • At the annual meeting of the members of the Dunedin Jewish congregation the following officers were elected: —President, Mr J. Hyman; treasurer, Mr D. E. Theomin; Managing Committee—Messrs M. Joel, R. M. Marks, C. S. Jacobs, A. Silverston, J. B. Isaac. * • * • The sculling match for £I,OOO and the championship between William Beach and Wallace Ross was rowed on the Thames. Beach led from start to finish, winning by five lengths. On Saturday afternoon four young men named John Russell, William Junes, Samuel Hughan, and David Hughan were drowned at Taieri Mouth. They were fishing, when their boat capsized. « • « • The Taiimi berthed at Port Chalmers from Plymouth via Cape Horn and Hobart. She brought 20 first class passengers, 21 second class, and 145 steerage. The Oaniaru breakwater was seriously damaged by recent storms, and the cost of repairs is estimated at £B,OOO It is stated that were the breakwater provided with a protection of concrete blocks nod rubble tbo cost of the whole would bo £30,000. • # * • The controversy about the baths at St. Clair is still being carried on by ‘ Star ’ correspondents. Some of the writers urge that the baths should be shut in comjdetely from the public gaze, and others argue that women should not bo allowed to bailie at St. Clair at all, but should have baths constructed in some oilier site for their