Mount Somers branch railway return proposal rejected
A Timaru Herald correspondent revived talk of a Temuka to Mount Somers railway via Rangitata and Ruapuna. The piece argues the scheme would fail to pay, would distract traffic from existing lines, and urges instead a Valetta to Mayfield or Westerfield to Mayfield extension as the viable option for Ashburton County.
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Mount Somers
Westerfield
Tinwald
Temuka
Rangitata
Ruapuna
Ashburton
Temuke
Trafic
Timaru “Herald
mid-Canterbury
Railway Department
Invastora
Valetta
Mayfield
Ashberton
Timaru Notices and Socials Reach Across Lands and Local Ties
Wires from Captain Edwin report strong east to north winds and slow glaze fall with very cold gusts. Ashburton guests Messrs Nosworthy and Wright travel Canada and the U.S., then to England and Devonshire visiting shows. A valedictory Social for Mr J McLeod M S C was held at the Commercial Hotel with gifts and songs. A Timaru coal yard petition gathers 400 signatures amid alleged blacklisting by the Timaru Coal Merchants Association. Tinwald Band held a lively monthly meeting with many performances and a thanks note to helpers. Peppermint Cure advertised with prices 1s 6d and 2s 6d per bottle.
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Weratuen
Edwin Wires
W. Nenworthy
D. &. Wright
Ashburton
Old Country
Canada
United States
England
Mesers Nosworthy
Wright
Richmond
Royal Show
Devonshire
Commercial Hotel
J. McLeod
Christchurch
da Beer
McLeod
Messrs
de Beer
Murray, Preston
MeaLeod
Dettmer
Tiaary Coan Trapg
Timaru
Hall-Jones
Paspia
Harald
TinwaLd Baxpot Hors
Tinwald United Band of Wope
Geo. Osborne
A. W. Harding
Miss Smith
A. Shearer
Ivy Moodie
Buttarick
D. Dalley
Giles
Thirteen Frost Degrees Hit Local Weather Readings
Local Domain weather station logged thirteen degrees of frost yesterday morning and twelve degrees this morning. Community notices warn readers of upcoming events and social engagements across Auckland and nearby towns with social gatherings, meetings, and civic remarks.
Achburton Trotting Club Meeting and Local Notices
The annual Achburton Trotting Club meeting is set for 8 oclock this evening. Ammunition consignments to Bulgaria move through Austria. Retail Traders Association urges members to close shops after 12 noon Thursday for the Sever-Side Football Tournament. Hakatere Club members Mosere A Trazigo and W Robinson depart this afternoon for the Colonial Boxing Championships in Wellington on Thursday. Menerd Manchester Bros appointed agents for De Sheldons remedies now on sale. Alcorns showcase needlework at special prices. Mr D Sutherland offers catering at City Tea Rooms. Rev A Peters denounces modern life pandered to by elegant art. condemns suggestive pictorial circle with prosecutions in Christohoreh and cleanhere. Sermon uses Deuteronomy 14 19 as basis. contrasts sin as loathsome pillar and attractive butterfly. A child of the aunt is depicted and denounced in frank pulpits language.
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Achburton Trotting
Bulgaria
Austria
Retail Traders’ Association
Mosere A. Trazigo
W. Robinson
Hakatere i Club
Express
Wellington
Menerd Manchester Bros
de Sheldon
Alcorn’s
D. Sutherland
City Tea Rooms
A. Peters
Baring Square Church
Christohoreh
Peters
Romance of the Sea lecture by Frank Bullen in Ashburton
Mr Frank T Bullen, famed author of The Cruise of the Cachalot, will lecture at Oddfellows Hall on Monday 13th. The talk promises personal reminiscences and romantic seafaring tales illustrated with many diagrams. Box plan at B M Jones's for seating.
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Ashburtonited
Frank T. Bullen
South Sea
Bullen
Cachalot
Ballen
Oddfellows’ Hall
B. M. Jones
Timaru Council Plans Carnegie Library and Town Hall
The Mayor reports Andrew Carnegie offers £3,000 for a public library if a site is provided and funds for books and maintenance are secured. He also seeks to spend £6,000 to £7,000 to build Municipal Offices and a Town Hall in a connected wing. Councillors largely approve, pending ratepayer discussion, with an estimated three farthings rate to fund the library.
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Tiano
Ataia
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Mechanics’ Institute
Devotios
Counsil
Shipping Rivalry Expands To Regular West of England Service
The New Zealand Shipping Company and Shaw Savill and Albion announce a regular monthly West of England service joining the ongoing shipping competition with Federal steamers heading to London and the opposing side toward the West of England. Dunedin hopes for first port of call remains unmet due to vessel draft limits in the Victoria channel.
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Dewzorn
Ang
London
West of England
New Zealand Shipping Company
Shaw, Savill and Albion Company
Seon
Dunedin
Vessala
Victoria Channel
Sariiga
Mount Somers Road Board Considers Resignations and Works
The Mount Somers Road Board held its regular meeting on Monday with Chairman Mosera Gates and members Fergus Matheson and Sharplin in attendance. Harrison’s resignation was accepted. vacancies and lease alterations were discussed, along with road repairs, shingling costs, vendor invitations, rate arrears, and the telegraph bureau replacement by a telephone service.
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Mount Somers Road
Mosera Gates
Fergus, Matheson
Sharplin
Harrison
Commissioner of Crown Lands
James Bland
George A. Bland
B.S
H. Cullen
Alford Forest
Messra Sharplin Snd Co
T. H. Brown
W. Bruckshaw
Todd’s Ford
Price’s Road
Mount Somers
McLachlan
M.H.R
J. McFarlane
R. Grieve
Gorse
Ashburton Rugby Union Meets Sets August 23 Guest Teams
The Ashburton County Rugby Union held its weekly meeting with Mr W G Roberts presiding. Attendees included Ray Ei Whitehouse Messiah Hodgkins H Ef Orr Tyrrell-Baxter Crow ther Cheat Robilliard Pooks and Pritchard Hon Sec. Letters from South Canterbury and Musselmer Unions agreed to send junior and senior teams respectively to Ashburton on August 23. Thirty seven teams entered the seven a side tournament and final arrangements were made. Accounts totaling £2133 were presented for payment.
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Ashburton County Rugby Union
W. G. Roberts
Disi
Ray
Whitehouse
Messiah
Hodgkins
H. Ef
Orr
A.J. Tyrrell-Baxter
W. Crowther
F. H. Cheat
F. Robilliard
A. A. Pooks
F. Pritchard
South Canterbury
Muesmers
Ashburton
New Medical Discovery Sparks Global Interest
Dr Sheldon’s New Coughs Colds and Consumption remedy draws vast attention with claims of relief in hopeless cases. Available at Manchester Broad and related shops. Also notices of second hand bicycles at Johnston's Cycle Depot and a linoleum polish named Tinola or Polishes at F W Preddy’s Ashburton agent.
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Sheldon
Manchester
Broa
Ashburton
Johnston's
Burnett Street
Anarchist Links Fire at Milan Exhibition
Milan exhibition fire traced to anarchists. Daniel Baird Wesson of Springfield dies amid Black Hand threats. Paris hosts France sprint title in 68 seconds. Land grabbers face police action in Plaistow. A steamer sinks with 350 to 400 aboard drowned after the wreck.
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Rowe, Aug
Milan
New York
Daniel Baird Wesson
Springfield
Black Hand
Secret Society
Paris
Healy
Australia
France
Charenton
Unrest in Russia After Discovery of Hazardous Devices
Police in Kiev and St. Petersburg uncover dangerous devices with annotated plans in a house linked to ex Lieutenant Konovea, arrested after dismissal from the army for propaganda among soldiers. The discovery widens concerns over security and internal unrest.
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Sv Perressuee
Kieff
Kief
St. Petersburg
Konovealof
Polish Socialists Admit Train Robbery and Police Murders
Reports from Warsaw allege Polish Socialists claim responsibility for a recent train robbery and the killing of twenty police officers last week. Odessa dispatches say panic is suppressed amid mutiny rumors in Sevastopol. telegraph lines are down and St. Petersburg printers are on strike with only three papers published Saturday.
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St Peterssone
Warsaw
Odessa
Thera Ie
Sevastopol
Hnas
St. Petersburg
Affray at Sessivoratsk Station Ends Tragically
In a clash between police and workers at Sessivoratsk railway station in St Petersburg eight police officers were killed. The incident occurred on August 6 during a confrontation in St Patarspond.
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St- Patarspond
Sessivoratsk
St Petersburg
Russian Finnish prisoners and unrest reported abroad
A dispatch notes 800 Russian and Finnish prisoners at Helsingfors and 85 civilian prisoners at Kronstadt including Socialist Revolutionary General Committee members. Casualties at Sveaborg reach six hundred with about a thousand missing. The Finnish Senate orders removal of the Red Guard near Helsingfors. The 18th Naval Battalion moved from St. Petersburg to Kronstadt is described as disorderly and drunk.
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St Paterstura
Helsingfors
Kronstadt
Socialist Revolutionary General Committee
Sveaaborg
Red Guard
Alsingfors
18Th
St. Petersburg
Denominational Teaching in Schools Debate in Lords
In the Lords debate on the Education Hill Bill the Duke of Devonshire argued denominational teaching should be allowed in transferred schools to treat all faiths equally. Critics warned of disruption and secularism if the bill is rejected, while the Bishop of London and Lord Chancellor urged careful handling. The bill passed its second reading without a division.
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Loxpon
House of Lords
Duke of Devonshire
London
Dr Tagram
Lanedowne
Debates Over Picketing Clause In Trades Disputes Bill
In the House of Commons a dispute over the picks ing clause of the Trades Disputes Bill led Sir Charles Dilke to move that attendance for picketing not be a nuisance. The amendment failed 127 to 122 with Balfour and Unionists voting with the majority. Sir J. L. Wallton's version of clause 4 was approved, extending to unions. action against unions remained possible under 1871 section 9. Sir Edward Carson called the clause farcical as Lords protest over delays surfaced with MPs leaving the chamber.
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Loxnow
House of Commons
Charles Dilke
Balfour
J. L. Wallton
Asia
Edward Carson
Robert Cecil
H. Campbell- Bannerman
Kgr
Army reorganisation aims to free regulars for overseas service
Britain's Defence notes Waldane memorandum allotting volunteers to coastal fortresses and coast duties in wartime. McHaldane backs county volunteer associations to manage affairs, foster clubs, assist in recruiting, help ex-soldiers find work, and coordinate patriotic wartime efforts.
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Lennon
R. B. Waldane
McHaldane
Rheuma claims curing rheumatic gout by removing uric acid
An advertisement touts Tamar's Rheuma as a permanent cure for rheumatism gout and sciatica asserting it removes uric acid from the system. A testimonial from W Oakley of New Brighton describes severe rheumatic gout improving after using the product sold widely at 2s 6d and 4?4d per bottle.
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Tamar
Onay Geass
W. Oakley
New Brighton
Steamer Sirio Wreck Tragedy Off Cartagena
Italian steamer Sirio bound Genoa to Buenos Ayres carrying eight hundred emigrants struck Harmigas Shoal eighteen miles from Cartagena and sank within half an hour. Panic broke out as passengers fought for lifebelts and boats. Officers and crew struggled to save women and children but were overwhelmed.
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London
Sirio
Genoa
Buenos Ayres
Harmigas
Cartagena
Disaster sinks ships as emigrants drown near Loxvos
At Loxvos on August 6 a calm sea saw fishing boats overloaded with emigrants sink. The captain shot himself as the ship fell to captors, and officers abandoned ship. Up to three hundred may have died including the Archbishop of San Pedro Brazil. A bishop survived. A steamer rescued a living baby. Reported negligence near shoals blamed for the wreck.
Bishop Drowned After Steamer Disaster Named Consul Heroic Rescue
The Bishop of San Pedro Brazil perished when lifebelt failed as steamer Marie Louise exploded after a direct collision. Fifty four survivors were pulled from the water by crew and rescuers including Austrian Consul who lent his lifebelt to a woman and child. Captain Joven Migull and his fishing boats aided others while sailors risked themselves to free space for more victims. A fisherman also saved twelve people.
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London
San Pedro
Brazil
Marie Louise
Joven Migull
Sugaeadad
Twelva
Tobacco sale report from New South Wales markets
Australian United Press describes tobacco sales by the British Australasian Tobacco Company. Two thousand pounds grown at Tumat were bought for 8d per pound, realized 4d to 44d on London markets, with Sydney reporting via Electria Telegraph.
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United Press Association
Electria Telegraph
New South Wales Tobacco
Sydney
Tumat
British-Australasian Tobacco Company
Afi
London
Temperance Meeting Endorses Cabinet Confidence
At a Temperance meeting Rev. F. W. Teitt attended as the revolution was carried expressing satisfaction with the Cabinet’s constitution. The Temperance Party believed the new Cabinet would not fear legislation affecting the people’s liquor traffic decisions.
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Narige
F. W. Teitt
Temperance Party
Obituary of G B Waterhouse Premier of New Zealand
Private advices from England report the death at Torquay of the Hon. G B Waterhouse aged 82 former Premier of New Zealand and also Premier of South Australia He is noted as the only statesman to have held the Premiership of two colonies The Hon G M Waterhouse served as Premier of New Zealand from 1872 to 1878
Accidents Claim Lives in New Zealand Regions
An elderly New Zealand war veteran George Gorton collapsed and died on a road near Wats. In Waihi a football match foul led to Richard Power’s fatal injury from a kick to the stomach. A three year old girl from Waimate died from burns suffered while playing with her brother.
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United Press Association
Hustria‘ Telegraph
Gistorix
George Gorton
Wats
Arangahakery Waihi
Richard Power
Central Hotel
Waimate
Burns
Will bequests to St Peter’s Akaroa and Lyttelton Orphanage
The Akaroa Mail reports that Mr Lucas estate leaves large properties to St Peter’s Church Akaroa and the Lyttelton Orphanage. The church may receive 3000 pounds or 150 pounds yearly, while the orphanage shares may face legal adjustment due to charity board integration. Litigation over the will’s terms is anticipated. Royal Standard Pills gain demand since market release, available at Ashburton chemists and grocers.
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Akaroa * Mail
Lucas
St. Petera? Church
Akaroa
Lyttelton
Charitable Aid Board
Mail
New Zealand
Royal Standard
Chatisty and Grocers
Ashburton
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Auckland
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Corwar
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Star of the
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Ashburton United Band of Hope
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W. E. Vovne
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W.A. Sando
EcoTrish Music
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Romance of the Sea
Mr Frank Bullen
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MR Carnegie
Mount Somers Road Board
Rugby Union
F. W. Preddy
Home and Foreign
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Plaistow
Russia
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Electrica Telegraph
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Sveaborg Mutiny
British Politics
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Por Electric Telegraph
Britain
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