Australia England Test Match Report Sees Bold Batsmen Glow
England in their first innings reached 152 as hot weather and a good wicket aided scoring. Rhodes and Fry starred in a long stand for Australia, with Laver replaced through injury and Hartigan as substitute. Cotter, Armstrong and Gregory led bowling efforts, while 26,000 spectators watched a high pace session and multiple centuries by Rhodes and Sharp highlighted a dynamic day.
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Press Association
London
England
Cotter
Armstrong
Rhodesandry
Laver
Macartney
Ransford
Fry
Rhodes
Gregory
Noble
Sharp
Woolley
Hayes
Hutchings
Carter
Catter
Hopkins
Begen
Barnes
Carr
Bardsley
Wheat and flour shipments data for United Kingdom and Europe
London report notes weekly wheat and flour aboard ships totaling 2 310 060 bushels for the United Kingdom 1 606 000 for the Continent and 1 056 000 for Europe including 87 000 from Argentina and Uruguay Atlantic shipments reach 127 000 bushels a cargo of Australian wheat sells at 42s 6d.
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London
United Kingdom
Continent
Atlantic
Europe
Unemployed in Wellington criticise Rangitatau scheme
A Post representative visits Rangitatau Government bush selling works and reports the scheme has failed to meet expectations. The Labour Department is blamed for sending unsuitable workers. Forty have left, about 100 remain. Critics say including side projects like road and track work could have used surplus skilled labor, or the scheme may end in disaster.
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Wellington
Rangitatau
Labour Department
Weather bulletin from Gore on disturbance Aeneas forecast
Mtaheno reports disturbance Aeneas approaching with winds from the northeast to northwest and west and more rain and electric disturbances. An area of nasty gea follows, then a calmer interval before the disturbance Dide arrives. Watch the earthquakes during the ensuing fortnight.
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Gore
Wragge
Mtaheno
Aeneas
Iliaturbance
Dide
Wellington College Free Places Protest at Wellington
Twenty school committee chairmen met Hon. G Fowlds minister of education to protest the Wellington College Governors refusal to provide free places for girls with proficiency certificates. The minister warned legislation may be needed to overcome obstinacy and said public endowment should aid broader access, while funding for expansion could be found if buildings were provided.
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Wellington
Wallington
Public Library Correspondence Raises Reading Room Concerns
An old subscriber criticizes the library committee over plans to rearrange the reading rooms and raise subscriptions. Questions include building stability after removing the dividing wall, accessibility for upstairs and downstairs readers, provision for a reading room, and the impact of a ten shilling subscription on young readers.
Imitating Police Uniforms Case Dismissed in Christchurch
Two young men charged with sticking up on a public street and wearing imitation police uniforms were dismissed. The court found the sticking up charge unsubstantiated and imitation of police uniforms not an offence. It noted New Zealand law does not compel civilians to aid police and lacks a prohibition on imitating police.
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Per
Press Association
Christchurch
New Zealand
John Whitford Pleads Guilty to Bigamy
Christchurch August to day John Whitford pleaded guilty to bigamy and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Christchurch
John Whitford
Supreme Court
Christchurch Court Heads Breakin Case and Dog Show Win
In Christchurch a man named Richard Powell alias Francis faced magistrate court charges for break ing and entering a business. He was jailed for three months for theft. At the Christchurch Kennel Club show Mr Cookson's white Pomeranian won best dog and the championship of New Zealand.
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Wellington
Richard ‘Thos. Powell
Francis
Supreme Court
Christchurch
Poisoned grain kills quail and owls at Mount Pisa
A letter notes reports from Mount Pisa and Central Otago about poisoned grain killing quail and dangerously harming newly imported little owls. The writer questions the value of importing owls when poisoned grain affects both species and implies a broader farming impact.
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Mount Pisa
Central Otago
Canterbury Jockey Club Grand National Meeting First Day
Concluding results from the Canterbury Jockey Club Grand National Meeting at Christchurch show jumpers races with a flap handicap won by Compass, margins of a length and a half. Enfield Steeplechase Handicap winner by two lengths. Avonhead Handicap winner by two lengths amid lively betting inside and outside enclosures. Totals: bookmakers £757 10s, tote £20,794, up from £18,666 last year.
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Christchurch
Southern Crags
Nyland
Fighteey Bookmakers
London Directory listing export merchants and steamship lines
Beas traders worldwide may contact English manufacturers and dealers. The directory serves as a complete commercial guide to London and suburbs, lists export merchants with goods and markets, steamship lines by port, and provincial trade notices. A current edition copy is available with freight paid on postal note forms. Advertising rates for trade cards and larger ads are offered by The London Directory Co.
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Beas
London
Ainpdpry
Realpis Cooling
THE
London Directory CO
Abchurch Lane
HANDICAP HUNT MEETING LISTS HORSE ENTRIES AND WEIGHTS
Racing entries and weights for a series of handicap events include Second Ways Acceptances, Beaufort Steeplechase, Spraydon Hack Hurdle, Grand National Hurdle, Sumner Handicap, Islington Handicap, and August Handicap. Notable horses listed with weights: Lovell, Deerslayer, Glengariff, Pretoria, Pukenui, King Post, Exmoor, Taulira, and Moosken among others. Race details cover distances from one mile to two miles six furlongs with varying prize funds and stipends.
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Christchurch
Lovell
Deerslayer
Gammon Hist
Glengariff
Stormy Petrel
Arty
Matengatenga
Pretoria
Puzzler
Bess
Beaufort
Capitel
Mosassia
el Dorado
Wanganui
Moosken
Diplomatic
Spraydon
Claremont
Polyanthus
Lapland
Kelso
Slaney
Grosvenor
Blytheboy
Ben Johnson
Exmoor
Compass
Taulira
Gold Dust
Scotty
Lionheart
Pikopo
Ringman
Bondrock (Inc
Southern Cross
Corazon
Chiarinian
Bountiful
Sant Rosaleer
Waiatu
Rangikapua
Merry Lass
Adiudge
Islington
North East Lisp
Grenadier
Merrie Zealand
St. Aidan
Gwendolina
Longner
Wajaraka
Lady Disdain
Iranui
King Post
White Cockads
Monkey Prazle
Winchmore Rovers Face Longbeach in Saturday Football
The Winchmore Rovers lineup includes Fitzgerald Culverhouse J O Grady Watson Scott B Bland Rooney Daily Clif ford Smith Ms Clifford M Ryan P Thompson and PB O Grady with emergencies listed as J Bland Langdon Addis A Bland among others. New Zealand Farmers Co operative Adhburton branch plays Railway and Post Office employees with Beauvais Craven Anderson Brown Gulverhouss McDonald Smith Page Chambers Moore Bro dy Reddeciife Seales Woodyatt emergency Sarney a.
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Winchmore Rovers
Longbeach
Fitzgerald
Culverhouse
J. O'Grady
Watson
Scott
B. Bland
Rooney
Daily
Clifford
Smith
Ms Clifford
M. Ryan
P. Thompson
PB. O'Grady
J. Bland
Langdon
Addis
A. Bland
New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative
Adhburton
Railway and Post Office
Beauvais
Craven
Anderson
Brown
Gulverhouss
McDonald
Page
Chambers
Moore
Brody
Reddeciife
Seales
Auckland Hockey Tour Sets Off For South
The Auckland Hockey Association's touring team left by the Main Trunk express on its southern tour. The opening match is scheduled at Wanganui on Thursday.
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Auckland
Auckland Hockey Association
Main Trunk Express
Wanganui
Marriage bans expose unregistered birth in Brest
A young couple, Calon and Cecile Cariou, seek public bans for marriage but the woman is found to have no legal existence due to an unregistered birth. Burglars also loot Christ Church Fulham, stealing an insurance policy against burglary.
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Brest
Calon
Cecile Cariou
Abo
Christ Church
Fulham
Vegetable Seeds Prize List and Seed Varieties
A catalog of prize seed names and varieties including Winner Bread Beans Fillbasket French Bean Mount Cook Broccoli Chiswick, Monarch C Carrot, Boston Beauty lettuce, Jumbo Cos lettuce, The Governor Pea, British Crown Pea, Giant Sugar Pea, and other items, credited to Holmes Supreme T.
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Mount Cook
Boston Beauty
Jumbo
Holmes’ Supreme T
Mixed Flower Varieties listed for seed catalog
A garbled seed catalog style list names many flowers and varieties including nasturtiums dwarf and broad sunflowers, sweet peas, cosmos, verbena hybrids, pansy and marigold notes with scattered punctuation and stray letters. It reads as a catalog snippet with inconsistent capitalization and incomplete entries.
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Grigret
Australia
Tunns
Spooner
McLaren
Ike
Wrolley
Ae Hayes
A & Hutchings
Sundries
Commercial
Per Press Aeenciation—Copyright
Per Press Association
MR Wragge
Pregs Association
Wellington College
Rer Press Association
the Public Library
W.Z. Farmers’ Co-Operative Association OF Ganty., Ltd
Metaven Yards
Wat Ara
N.az
Farmers’ Co-Op
H. Matson
the Arcade
T. Wilson
Tancred Street
Ashburton
S. Wilson
H. Matson and CO
Fouhy
Lightfoot
Timaru
Northern Agri Cultural and Pastoral Association
Rangiora
K. McIntosh
Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Association
Mer’ James Small
Bates
Bank of New Zealand
Napier
Shorty
Bergéant’ Fouhy
Coker
Ab Ashburton
Donovan
Worman
Grey Street
Wm. Bryant
Bt. Stephen's
Church of Christ
Gameron Street
Park Street
Walter Pickles
Tate’s
Ost
Binder
E. Ashton
Seafield
T. H. Andrill
Illowby
Cricket Club
J. Mellor
Cox
Ust
Burnett Streets
Percy’s
Chas. Thomas
Labour Exchange
East Street
Thomas Bros
Havelock Street
RGANS
H. Jones
Sutton
Pre
N.Z. Farmers' Co Agents
Haveioc Street
Nee & Blair
Fletcher Bros
A. J. H. Williams
Phonograph
Donler
Sporting
Canterbury
Jockey Club
Friedlander Bros., Ltd
D. Friedlander
Henry Stephenson
Parbote
Harold
Gurtis
Burnett Street
Maling & Co., Ltd
Fitter & SO
Central Markets
Wilson
Alford Forest Road
Tinwald
H. BE. Gurtis
F. G. Barker
Boor Ager and
Ratpaiber
Strange’s
London Directory
Penates Ist
Los Angeles
Benny Glen
Mundic
Bock Ferry
Iney
Bravery
Goloshes
Clean Sweep Sale
Reizes Senate
Beach Road
Wauwkanui
Wm, Kennedy
Poundkeeper
Greymouth
O Goodwill
Mark Sprot and CO
C. Bechstein
Becg's
H. A. Gates
Montauk
Pertin
Cuann
Fletcher
Agents
Bluestone
Macclesfield
Blair
Harlington Windsor
Shiels Horder
Hern
Long Pool
Adams
Leamington
Snow
Veitche
Walchern
Wilcox
Wrussels
Scrymger
Drumhead
Early York
Enfield Market
St. John’s Day
Lamb's
Drumhead Savoy
James Scarlet
Veltehe
Watchoren
Cole
Cress— Extra
Qurted
Queumber
Uxtitc A
Eekmearpo
James
Rocco Tripoli
William Hurst
Veilehe
Yorkshire
Dr Stuart
Laing
Mmontauk
EACY
G.B.D
Eg, 4 and Co
Loowe and Co
Barlings
Smith’s
Ane
Th. Halderness, Dappil, Q
Sander & Sons
Nates
Sander
Sanders
Hockey
Par Press Association
Costumier and Mercer
N.B
A. A. Dempster
Bonnington
McDonald’s
McDonald & Co., Merchant Tailors
Alford Forest
Ashburton County
Sharplin & CO
le, Pastal
Staveley
Coreopsis
Cosmos
Empreas
India
Pps
Bulletin
Scientific American
Chas
Thomas
Last Street
Felenhone
Colman
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