100 Years Ago

"I have endeavoured, more than once, to understand why the world is so slow to realise the amazing potentialities of flight: and I have come to the conclusion that we are deadened to the significance of new things by the wonders which we have already been called upon to recognise."

The rivalry between the North Island and the South, particularly in the matter of railway construction, was forcibly touched on by several speakers at the luncheon tendered to the Otago Central touring party at Lawrence yesterday.

The party of public men which has been making a rapid inspection of different parts of Central Otago this week has been besieged with vigorous appeals for assistance in obtaining irrigation for the fields and a railway for the product of the various districts passed through.

The Government has approved of the plans and arrangements for the new Technical School in Dunedin.

Strong complaints have been made by those working on the Dunedin wharf regarding a most offensive stench that arises from the effluent of a sewer that empties into the harbour near the V shed.

Owing to the exceptionally low tides which have been experienced in the harbour during the last day or two the ferry steamers have had a difficulty in making their way to the different seaside resorts.

A complimentary social was tendered in the public hall at Palmerston on Friday night by Mr Duncan's friends and supporters as a public recognition of his services to the district.

Information collected from the farmers of New Zealand five years ago showed that there was hardly any limit to the good words said of the starling.

SIR. - I notice that some discussion took place at a meeting lately held by the Harbour Board as to the advisability of reclaiming a large area of the foreshore, and that exception was taken to the proposal on account of the warning given by many of the experts, whose opinions have been asked for in the past, all agreeing that a limit must be observed in the reclamation of the Upper Harbour on account of the danger of diminishing the inflow at the Otago Heads.

A very large audience, mostly comprised of young men, assembled inside the enclosure on the Oval last night to witness the initial performance of the Wild Australian Buckjumpers, under the direction of Professor W. J. Bullock. Including the Professor himself, there are four members of the company, and the entertainment comprised exhibitions of rough riding, sharpshooting, and bullock-wrestling.