Blight in North Island worsens amid many regional notes
Reports indicate potato blight in the North Island reaches previous peak levels. Christmas Eve passed quietly in Geraldine with satisfactory business. Timaru platform tickets total 23 500 sold in six months. Ashburton council meets with limited business. Ashburton police report calm holidays with no drunkenness. Dunfermline Sheriff Court fines William Topping for drill attendance. Wanganui Museum receives a yellow eel specimen. Lease-in-perpetuity tenants shift to renewable leases, rentals shown. Canterbury College board elected Acland. South Canterbury Millowners plan next meeting to set threshing prices, proposing higher rates to share with workers.
Debenture増 for Admiralty Dreadnought order and other notices
Thames Ironworks plans to issue an additional 50 000 debentures amid Admiralty orders for a super Dreadnought. Reports from London and Berlin discuss German naval plans, with caution on curtailment and possible understandings. News also notes a tidal wave in Chelsea Massachusetts leaving 1,500 homeless and a fatal fall in Orense Spain killing 26.
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London
Thames Ironworks Company
Admiralty
Paul Rohrbach
The
Daily News
Germany
Vigo
Spain
New York
Chelsea
Massachusetts
Has a Good Selection of Match Holders Card
A compact catalog note highlights a selection of match holders and card accessories on display. It emphasizes variety and convenience for shoppers seeking reliable flame and card organizing tools in the shop.
Centenary Glimpses Of Gladstone And Local Notes
Coverage recalls the birth centenary of William Ewart Gladstone and notes various local items. Miners on the West Coast push for prohibition districts while railway officials on the Wanganui wharf resign after a departmental inquiry. Canterbury Co op butter fat payments for November total £12,346 2s 9d. A planned Baptist church at Cambridge is announced amid existing denominations. Britain reports coal output of 2,615,287,950 tons over 36 years and per-head consumption of four tons in the UK last year. Land Board proposes reserving land in Central Otago for regressive trials on barren areas. A Wakanui farmer finds an unusually tall thistle on his land with pervasive propagation potential.
Inquest into Dentist’s Cyanide Death in Auckland
Auckland reports an inquest into the death of William I. Butters a dentist found dead in his rooms from suspected cyanide poisoning. Jury suggested possible mistaken ingestion while noting lack of evidence on exact circumstances.
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Auckland
William I. Butters
Jergusson
Wellington
Robert Henry Parker
Beasy Wins County Championship in 20 Mile Road Race
Beasy the Fastest Rider claims the county title with a solid gold medal as Kintricee finishes close behind at Oates and.
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Beasy
Kintricee
Oates
Ashburton Picnic Party Enjoy Peel Forest Attractions
Hundreds from Ashburton visited Peel Forest on Monday enjoying waterfalls shady walks and native flowers including rata. Mount Peel rises 4293 feet offering expansive views while one Ashburton group endured drenching rain after a late Christmas Eve train ride before pitching tents.
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Ashburton
Peel Forest
Mount Peel
Hanpitata
Commodore cycles on sale at Johnston's Depot
At Burnett Street B D Johnston's Cycle Depot offers twelve new Commodore cycles for men and women. Machines are built by Components Ltd of England with free wheels, brakes, plated rims, Dunlop tyres, Brooks saddles, Reynolds chain. Prices are reduced for Christmas with a two year written guarantee.
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London
Robert McNab
Public Record Office
France
New Zealand
Comte de Paris
L' Aube
McNab
Sutton
Carson
Ihp
Tancred Street
Thsarson Cycle and Motor Works
B.D. Johnston
Burnett Street
Commodore
Firm
of Components, Ltd
England
Dunlop
Brooks’ Saddle
Reynolds’ Chain
Pho
Count Tolstoi Confined to Bed in St. Petersburg
The Count Tolstoi is confined to his bed in St. Petersburg as of December 28, with a favor noted. Born August 28, 1828, he remains under care amid reports from press association sources.
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London
Sheldon
Phenix’ Insurance Company
Germany
Camaru
Maheno
Fimlick
Press- Association—Copyright
ST. Petersburg
Count Tolstoi
Blizzard toll hits eighteen near New York shores
A December blizzard crashes into the New York vicinity causing eighteen deaths and many vessels ashore. A schooner with twelve men was lost off Boston.
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New York
Bostow
New York ice monopoly fined under Donnelly Law
The American ice Company faces a 1000 pound penalty for attempting a monopoly in ice production and sales in New York. The Times notes Federal law against interstate monopolies is limited, urging state measures to aid Congress.
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Press Association
London
American Lea Company
New York State
Times
New York
Congress
Russia Receives First Abroad Steel Order for 30009 Tons
In St. Petersburg the Obakoff works supply 30 009 tons of steel to an English purchaser. The Duma National Defence Committees vote a credit of 150 000 sterling to pay damages awarded to British shipowners by Prize Courts in the Russo Japanese war.
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Presa Association
Copyaiwhe
ST. Petersburg
Obakoff Works
National Defence Committees
Duma
Indian Arms Act criticized after Nasik arsenal find
The Times Bombay correspondent says the Nasik arsenal discovery proves the Arms Act needs revision and stronger measures to curb illicit imports, including deportation power. It urges sedition law tightening and registering editors, managers, and newspapers as security for publication.
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London
Times
Bombay
Nasik
Indi
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Stephen Madden
Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
General Assembly
A. T. A. Williams
Close At Oates and Co
Trabhburton
Robert Belli
Quality Drapers
Robilliard & Son
T Young
Next Bank of N.Z
Great Clearing Sale
Fame
Ashburton Branch
W. Patching
Tn Somerset Buildings
Father Xmas
Tararaki
North Island
Geraldine
Timaru
Upper
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Dunfermline
Scotland
William Topping
Seventh Royal Highlanders
Wanganui Museum
A. Pota Ra
Utiku
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Ss Ltd
Board of Governors
Canterbury College
B. M. Moorhouse
H. D. Acland
H. Langford
R. Meredith
Mr Acland
South Canterbury Millowners' Union
Cable News
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Electroc Telegraph
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Prince’ Chun
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Postle
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Tagblatt
Louise
Belgium
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Allen’s
ATTAC
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McClurg
Billy
B. Petersen and Co
Christchurch
Irrels
Uardian
Magna As
Vitnivas
Pusey Uae
Rev
J. Gibson A Sraith
Knicar Ureant
Dinnie
Police
Mr Dinnie
Bishop
Dinvie
Gibson Smith
Strange
Xmas
TOY Land
A. L
U . Hi
Mail and Guardian
Burnet Street
Wethven Surgery
E. Batten
A. A. Dempster
Ashby
ATON
Thomas Bros
Havelock
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Brocoli
Kale
Savoys
Levy
F. Ferriman
H. M. Jones
Father Christmas
Santa Claus
Ati
Clothiers
the Corner,” Ashburton
Sam Crooks
Practical Watchmaker and Jeweller
Capital Laundry
Freehald
F, Ferriman
Tinwald
Alford Forest
Perriman
Legal and General
William Ewart Gladstone
West Coast
J. Barr
Hastings
Wanganui
Canterbury Central Co-operative Derry Company
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Britain
Central Otago
the Land Board
Kawasiau and
Morven Hills Rans
Wakanuni
Per Press Association
Stratford
Jessia Burgess
Ada Cheer
Mangaehu
Oko Road
Petane
G. B. McKay
James Landells
HA. Hickey
Andrews
H. I
Trevor Wellwood
Viscount Bury
Duke of
BR. McKenzie
Nosworthy
North
Pahiatua
Scrimshaw
Mangatainoka
George Piper
Tennyson Street
Sydenham
Fisher Street
Rakaia
Little River
John Foley
Foley
H. Gresham
Cameron Street
Iss Richardson
Singer Machinempany
A. T. H. Williams
MYERS
Sicily
Roland Lord
M.R.C.V.S
Corner Casa
Moore Streets
Arcade Labour Bureau
Chapman's
Ashburton and Peel Forest
America
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Russia
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