EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26621, 18 November 1947, Page 4

EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

FROM THE FILES OF THE

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DUNEDIN. NOVEMBER 18. 1862

A special meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand was held at Auckland, when a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, was recommended by the directors for payment. “ The fifth instalment of £ 1 per share lias been fixed to be paid’on February 16 next, and is the last call the directors can make without the authority of the shareholders, which they see no necessity for obtaining at present.”

The Daily Times in referring to a practice with the new engine of the Dunedin Fire Brigade says that it is the duty of the brigade to avoid giving unnecessary annoyance to the inhabitants of the streets in which they practise or to the casual passers-by. ‘Last night the water was directed igainfet houses with but small regard whether doors and windows were closed and sprinkled about the streets without consideration for the passersby.”

The New Zealand Pioneer Lodge of the A.1.0.0.F. is to be opened on Thursday at the Queens Arms Hotel.

At the weekly meeting of the Dunedin Debating Club in Clarke's Temperance Hotel Mr William D. Stewart was unanimously elected treasurer. The debate for the evening, introduced by Mr J. W. Jago. was, “What is the greatest incentive to crime—ignorance, intemperance, poverty, or the struggle after wealth? ” The vote at the conclusion of the discussion was for intemperance as the greatest incentive.

The Waitahuna correspondent of the ! Daily Times reports that Cobb’s Coach, from Dunedin to Gabriel’s Gully, was upset on Monday, at Mount Stuart, by the violence of the wind. The passengers were four ladies, one gentleman, and five children, but fortunately they all escaped serious injury. The Daily Times reports that this is the third occasion of such an accident occurring at the same place.

“A public meeting of owners and occupiers of land within the Dunedin educational district is convened for Friday in Dr Burns’s church for the purpose of electing a school committee.

Says the Daily Times in a leading article on the Maori situation in the North Island: “ Time after time has Sir George Grey intimated his intention of visiting Taranaki and yet he has never fulfilled his promise. The place where above all others he ought to have proceeded at once he has not planted his foot in and the evils which he ought to have remedied months ago exist now in a worse form The settlers have waited and waited until they are tired. The once prosperous and happy farmers have had to break stones on the very roads which lead to the farms they are debarred from occupying. ... If they are to be reinstated in their farms, why was it not done 12 months ago? . . . The rtter desolation of the country round Taranaki none but those who have witnessed it can imagine.”