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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 20, 1900
Page
1
A patient at Wellington Hospital endures six months of illness and an operation. Plantekoa reportedly cures him and his daughter of chicken pox, according to the report.
Proposes organizing the entire civil service including the Judiciary and appointing commissions to investigate compensation expropriation of the Nether lands South African Railway Company determine fiscal policy survey water conservation sites for irrigation review liquor laws and native taxation and establish education areas to advance social standing.
A Reading subway switchman saved a train by using a substitute pivot after a bolt vanished. He thrust his finger into the empty hole to signal and activate the lever, then pulled free with his finger left behind to avert disaster. The act preserved the train and life.
The Rev J M Robertson at Bannockburn grounds contrasts 1314 Scots independence with modern Boer fights. He says Scotland’s long royal line and holy ground stood against invasion, while self government serves all not privilege, echoing cheers for liberty.
An appeal by a railway company in Colorado elicited a Supreme Court statement of the principles for valuing a human life. The suit had involved two men whose 68 year old banker father was killed on company premises. The court held that damages must reflect the deceased's power to earn and save, not speculative future savings, reversing a lower court verdict of four thousand dollars.
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