25 YEARS AGO

AN all-night 'rescue operation' was mounted after a special train booked to take 500 Bolton Wanderers' fans to the FA Cup game at Southampton today was cancelled late last night because of a guards' dispute at Birmingham. Supporters' Club officials who had hired the train began a frantic search to get the necessary coaches to take fans on the 200-mile journey by road instead . . . and succeeded. The game was drawn, 3-3.

50 YEARS AGO

BOLTON Libraries Committee yesterday discussed Gainsborough and art exhibitions, and Counc. Lucas, pleading for a better type of visiting exhibition, declared: 'Bolton is not an artistic town, and it will take a lot to make it so. Ours is largely an educational job. We have to give the people not what they like, but what they ought to have.'

SIR H. Bartle Frere, KCB, presiding at the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society last evening, alluded to a telegram reporting the death of Dr Livingstone. He was glad to say that after this intelligence had occupied their minds in the most unpleasant way for some time, he was relieved to meet several members of the Society and others who had travelled and were fully competent to speak on the subject, and to find that they unanimously came to the conclusion that there was something more than a doubt thrown upon the accuracy of the report. (Applause). Sir John Kirk then told the meeting that when he left Zanzibar on the 18th of September, there were reports current similar to the one published that day regarding Dr Livingstone. He took every opportunity of sifting them with the view of ascertaining whether they had any foundation, and came to the conclusion that they were not worthy of being repeated.

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