FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 22465, 9 October 1936, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

From ‘ Star ’ Files. The Victorian Legislative Assembly recently affirmed the principle that eight hours, including half an hour for crib, shall be recognised as a day’s labour in all mining districts in that colony. # * » • Fourteen rebels in Madrid have been executed. « • * « During last year 323 applications for patents were made in the Colony. * * ♦ * The death is recorded in Dunedin of Air Arthur David Harvey, deputy registrar of the Supreme Court. Most of the deceased’s life was spent in the goldfields of this colony and in Victoria. In early life he was one of the famous old force of mounted police of Victoria, which has given this colony not a few of its best officials. He was believed to have been present at the Eureka affair. He came to this colony with the late Air St. John Branigan. * » ■* # The Ivaikoura, from Plymouth via Cape Town, made the passage from England to Port Chalmers in 39 days 3hr and 30min, including all stoppages. She brought 300 passengers. * * 4t * A New Zealand loan of £1,507,800 at 4 per cent has been placed on the Loudon market. Tenders are to be opened on October 14. The minimum has been fixed at £97.