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Newspaper

Ashburton Guardian

Location

Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Date

Dec 12, 1906

Page

4

Voyage on the Fairy Belle Ends in Shock and Strife

Laurence Averil, Oxford graduate, endures a brutal voyage on the trawler Fairy Belle under Jock Menzies. After fighting aboard and facing fear of death at sea, he returns to Leith to confront a ledger revealing his late father’s dishonesty and a life altered by Harper’s offer.

Laurence Averil Oxford Laurence Clement Harper Leith Jorneys Jock Menzies Taurence William Clitheroe Jack Menzies Oscar Lawrence Menzies Aew Harper Iceland Hebrides

Laurence Delays Apprenticeship Seeks One More Voyage

In a fragment from a shipboard tale Laurence, home from a brief voyage, learns he is owed seven years’ pay from I Averi and confronts the wage reality. Clement Harper taunts him about the life ashore as Laurence resolves to try one more voyage before rejoining the sea. He draws his pay of seventeen pounds eleven and agrees to dine with Harper that night before departing again in three days.

I. Averi Clement Harper Laurie Laurence Harper

Pigeon Shooting Case Sees Appeal Reversed in Court

Justice Chapman reserved decision in the Feilding pigeon shooting appeal. The Palmerston North court heard that field sports inflicting pain to birds may be lawful if the act has a proper object. The judge emphasized no clear ban on shooting pigeons and allowed the appeal without costa, aiding gun clubs and society.

Paumuension Nonru Justice Chapman Feilding Supreme Court Hig Honour Palmerston North Charles Tucker Peilding Huo Costa

Tangier Atrocity and a Rheumotherapy Ad

A London Times report describes a Moor tortured with over 1000 lashes near Tangier and a public execution of a woman in the market place. The piece then shifts to an advertisement claiming Rheumo cures rheumatism gout sciatica and lumbago by removing excess uric acid from the blood with various prices listed.

Tangier Congo London Times Raisuli St Iamot Coupe Hall Lombago

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