FIFTY YEARS AGO

Evening Star, Issue 23372, 15 September 1939, Page 3

FIFTY YEARS AGO

FROM ’STAR’ FILES EXHIBITION HOTEL. We understand that the Grand Pacific Hotel (facing the Ocean Beach) will be utilised for the purpose of entertaining by the Governor any Australian Governors or distinguished l visitors to Dnnedin during the exhibition period. The Government will place £I,OOO at the disposal of the exhibition commissioners with tho object of properly equipping the establishment. [When Lord Onslow took possession the name was altered to Onslow House.] * * * * WRECK OF THE GARSTON. The barque Garston, bound from Sydney to San Francisco, is reported to have been wrecked) at Starbruck Island The captain and nine of tho crew are missing. # , . OBITUARY. The Hon. W. Robinson, M.L.C., died on September 9, * * * • DREDGE 222. The Otago Harbour Board received advice that Dredge 222 has arrived at Melbourne. Captain Stewart, in charge, reported all well. * * # • INTERPROVINCIAL FOOTBALL. Auckland and Otago drew, 3 all, Wellington defeated Canterbury by three tries to one try. * * * # BISHOP HARPER RESIGNS. It is reported that the bench of bishops has accepted Bishop Harper’s resignation, and that the Bishop of Nelson, as senior bishop, has instructed the Dean of Christchurch, as commissary, to convene the clerical and lay members of the Synod for the election of a successor. Bishop Harper was Bishop of .Christchurch. # * * ♦ ALBION CRICKET OFFICIALS. Officers elected at the annual meeting of the Albion Cricket Club were President, Mr (Sir) James Allen, M.H.R.; vice-presidents—Messrs A. H. Shelton, T. Hunter, Mark Cohen, Brown, and Fairbairn; treasurer, Mr W. Hutchison; secretary, Mr B. Ringer: Committee of Management—Messrs J. M'Farlane, Gordon, Croxford, M’Master, and Beisel; captain, Mr Collar; deputycaptain, Mr J. M’Farlane. » * * • SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. One hundred thousand spectators watched H. E. Searle, of Clarence River, New South Wales, defeat the Canadian, O’Connor, by 10 lengths on the Thames for the sculling championship of the world. O’Connor went out in front at the start, but Searle drew up steadily to win in 22min 43sec, The news of his defeat was like a thunderclap at Toronto. The Canadians are said to have lost £BO,OOO, while the Australian contingent in London assert that they won £30,000. #■ * # * MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. Councillors elected at the municipal elections were:—City: High Ward, Mr John Barron: Leith, Mr William Swan. Caversham, Mr Andrew Boyes; South Dunedin, Mr Charles Fisher: Roslyn, Mr George B. Lindsay; Port Chalmers, Messrs W. Pedlow, William M. Innes, and H. J. Pullar. N.Z. BOWLING ASSOCIATION. Officers elected at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Bowling Association were;—President, Mr W. Carlton; vice-president, Mr W. Dawson; treasurer, Mr Thomas Moodie; secretary, Mr G. Capstick; auditor, Mr W. Davis; Tournament Committee—Messrs W. Carlton, W. Dawson, T. Moodie, and J. Scoular. ♦ * * * ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. Tho arrivals in the colony during August were 940, and the departures 1,248. Of the latter, 787 went to New South Wales and 272 to Victoria, New South Wales is also credited with 340 of the arrivals and Victoria 170. ♦ # * ♦ PRIME MINISTER’S VISIT. Dean Jacobs, of Christchurch, writes to the ‘ Press,’ giving his present recollection of Lord Robert Cecil’s (now the Marquess of Salisbury, Britain’s Prime Minister) visit to Canterbury in 1853.