Convictions Over Fishing License Fines Reported in Geraldine
Geraldine Acclimatisation Society secured convictions against two men named Cook for fishing without a license, fined £15 each. In New South Wales a speech tax proposal caused debate in the Assembly. Justice Conolly ruled share transfers not exempt from stamp duty under New Zealand law. A telegraphic teachers list omitted Misa Hannah Qurd, while Misa Qurd and Me F Curd passed in class DD. Tinwald Town Board held a monthly meeting with full attendance and subsequent special session confirming a 4 of penny rate. The Chamber of Commerce president warned farmers against threshing before stacking to avoid weather damage. Demand for Jagd in Central Otago remains high, with Otago Central Railway routes near Highfield Station offering grazing properties and a competitive ballot process.
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Cook
New South Wales Assembly
Justice Conolly
Loan and Mercantile Agency Company
New Zealand
Misa Hannah Qurd
Misa Qurd
Tinwald Town Board
F. Lewis
T. Stove
T. Stone
A. H. Shury
Messrs Redmayne
Stone
Chamber of Commerge
Lyttelton Court Fines Licensee Over Unpurchased Cigars
Campbell Brown licensee of the Canterbury Hotel pleaded guilty at Lyttelton Magistrate's Court to possessing 322 unemployed cigars on February 5 and was fined £50 plus costs. The morning also reports on travel to North Otago cycling events, notable bull fighter Clotilde Melstark in Portugal, a dramatic Napier mirage, Christchurch Chamber of Commerce backing a new Trade and Commerce portfolio, and health ads for Holloway's Pills.
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Lyttelton
Marning
Campbell Brown
Canterbury Hotel
Costa
Portugal
Clotilde Melstark
Oporto
Lisbon
Napier
Aniset
Christchurch
Petition drives Ashburton Forks road district reform
A ratepayers meeting in the Upper Ashburton Forks district heard that the petition to the County Council had more than enough signatures and was in order. Residents condemned Mount Somers Road Board control as unfair and urged redress, noting 730 tons of produce and 9000 sheep moved to Ashburton in the year. Two delegates were chosen to carry the petition to the County Council on Friday.
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Mount Somera Road
Forks
McCormick
Read Board
County Council
Upper Ashburton Forks
Upper Ashburton Road
Mount Somers Road
Ashburton
Alford
Springburn
Herring
Kaimakin MacDonald’s Rise From Sergeant to Major in Egyptian Forces
The Kaimakin MacDonald of the 2nd Egyptian Infantry, serving at Wady Halfa, is celebrated for a rapid rise from sergeant in 1880 to major by 1893. His career includes Afghan war gallantry, Transvaal 1881, Nile Expedition 1886, and service in the Egyptian Constabulary and Army with multiple despatches and honors.
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Wady Halfa
Eithazi Mukhtar Pasha
Hector Archibald MacDonald
Royal Fusiliers
Pall Mall
MacDonald
Gordon Highlanders
Transvaal
Garison
Asaiout
Nile
D.S.O
Gsmanich
Raimakan MacDonald
New Year Toast Credits Smoking of Stars and Stripes
Fragmentary item notes a New Year smoking ritual with Stars and Stripes reference and a label ZANDER. No clear person, date, or location is established.
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Stars and Stripes
Zander
Run to Earth dazzles crowds at Odd Fellows Hall
Kennedy W Deering Company presents Run to Earth with strong scenery and cast led by J J Kennedy as Crooked Biles. Frank Norton as Jack Weldon and Linda Raymond as Heeler Dale receive praise. ensemble includes Harry Saville W J Coulter Lily Hill Bertha Halcott. Crowd fills Odd Fellows Hall on second night.
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Oddfellows’ Hall
J. J. Kennedy
Biles
Ingarnate
Dicken
Paniel Quilp
Curiosity Shop
Quilp
Crooked Biles
Mr Kennedy
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Jack Weldon
Robert Meredith
Harry Saville
W. J. Coulter
Crispin St
Nightingale
Tom Stirling
Milton Moga
W. E. Jermys
Misa Linda Raymond
Heater Dale
Final race payments for Wancanut event at Wancanut meet
Wancanut on February 27 reports final payments received for the mile and three-quarters race. Listed horses include Rosefeldt Royal Rosa Rangipuhi Nogade Au Revoir Musket Dreamland Tramps Liberator Jacobite and St Katherine with weights shown.
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Royal Rosa
Rangipuhi
Nogade
Au Revoir
Dreamland
Liberator
St. Katherine
Dancer Scratched From Great Easter Handicap
Craistcource on February 27 reports the Dancer was withdrawn from the Great Easter Handicap race amid field adjustments and replacement entries noted by officials.
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Craistcource
Isolation of Consumptive Patients Sparks New York Health Debate
A Sydney Herald correspondent notes the New York Board of Health’s push for tuberculosis segregation and a dedicated consumptive hospital. The board urges patient isolation and swift reporting by physicians, a stance supported by local sentiment but seen by some doctors as too aggressive.
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New York Board of Health
Saya
Sydney Herald
Europe
New York
Market Difficulties Dominate Australian Wheat Trade In 1893
The Argus reports the English market confirms two Australian wheat cargoes for January and February at 243 per 480 pounds c.f.i, f.o.b Melbourne. Private sources say 262 cannot be repeated. demand falters as French duty rises and Russian excess supplies loom, signaling a bleak outlook for wheat merchants and a commission driven trade.
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C.f.i
F.o.b
Melbourne
London
France
Rusgiz
Colossus
Germany
Tea in Canterbury for the money shows promise
An old shopping note praises Canterbury tea for value and mild astringency with a prompt ask to check at local grocers.
Sheep Stealing Rumors Sweep Waimate District
Reports across Waimate district describe numerous stolen sheep, with one attempted theft at Knottingly Park. A four-tooth half bred ewe was found with legs tied by cord, showing careful planning by the thief. The victim observed the corded wounds and escaped, indicating organized practice of stealing in small lots.
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Waimate
Knottingly Park
Winslow School Treat Delights Children With Prizes
The Winslow School treat on February 2% featured races and games in a paddock near the school. Mrs Drennan won a married women's fire shovel and poker, prizes were handed out by Mr P Grace, sewing prizes were donated by district ladies, and Mra Wakeham received a token from the sewing class parents.
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War in the New Hebrides records violence at local mission
From Auckland Star via Mrs Watt a Presbyterian missionary wife on Tanna reports war breaking out near the mission. A veteran heathen is shot, retaliation follows, a village attack kills a school reading helper. The fighting halts school and forces teachers to the head station.
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Auckland
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Tanna
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Fred
Correspondence on Cigarettes and Boys Purchases
A correspondent argues against selling cigarettes to boys claiming it fuels youth access. The writer rejects a two for a penny price and insists on selling only full boxes and only quality brands. He questions Mr Flower's claim that cigarettes are for a father and urges personal responsibility.
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Sam
Mr Flower
Mer Flower
Eucalyptus Extracts Marketed with Questionable Safety Claims
The notice warns against inferior eucalyptus extracts sold as medicinal auras, contrasting them with the genuine Eucalypti Extract from Sander & Sons Victoria. It cites tests by European medical authorities and warns that improper distillation and impurities reduce therapeutic value and risk internal use.
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Bond
Groifawat
Praadia
Schulz
Bonn
Moster
Greifswald
Lister
England
Sigdhearts
Victoria
Australia
Melbourne and World News Briefs
Mr Panmure Gordon offers half a million of Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works bonds at a premium over expenses. The Comte de Paris with draws a subsidy to the Monarchist party hoping for permission to return to France. Many men leave Broken Hill for the new goldfield at Wankaringa in South Australia. Mr Yates Thompayn offers £38,000 for a monumental chapel in the old Palace connected with Westminster Abbey. The charge against Frederick Drew and Mackreadie and Drew over a Paris firm fraud was dismissed in the Oil Court. The Crown Law Officers say the New South War Colonial Treasurer’s Impe Passenger Act overrides other Acts and will be enforced where travel interests demand it.
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Panmure Gordon
Melbourne
Westminister Abbey
Fredk
London Council scheme to form single municipal body
The London County Council has submitted to a Royal Commission a scheme for forming London into one municipal corporation. The draft proposes 118 councillors and nineteen aldermen under the Lord Mayor, with the city’s property and duties transferring to the new authority.
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Loxnon
London County Council
Royal Commission
London
Londo
City of London On County Council
Victoria Agent General urges ocean mail route to colonies
Sir Andrew Clark acting Agent General for Victoria presses the British Government and Australasian colonies to develop an ocean mail route via the Atlantic and Pacific. He argues the Western route would bolster naval military political and trading strength in wartime for the Empire.
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London
Andrew Clark
Victoria
Atlantic
Pacific
Kimberley Flood Toll Reported as Waters Rise
Terrisgle floods devastate Kimberley district with sixteen inches of rain in two days. Fifteen natives drowned in the Lennard river. Widespread inundation expected to reveal further deaths among whites when communications are restored.
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Pretty
Kimberley
Lennard
Anarchist Bourdin Inquest Verdict Reported
A Greenwich Observatory explosion inquest returned a verdict unclear in wording. Witnesses claimed the deceased intended to throw a bomb, but the blast appeared unintentional. Another incident involving a theatre firework explosion was investigated and deemed harmless.
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London
Bourdin
Greenwich Observatory
Majonetie Testifi
Disaster in West Africa Report.
News from the West Coast of Africa states that one hundred marines and men of the West India regiment, ordered to co operate with Captain Gamble at Ganjor, returned safely after destroying native villages. Admiral Bedford's expedition against the Arab chief will be reinforced by fifty marines from the Cape. Twenty men from Plymouth replace wounded aboard U M 8 Raleigh. Lieutenant Arnold, killed at Bathurst, was well known aboard the Diamond and Nelson and married a Sydney lady.
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Gamble
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Raleigh
Sydney
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Bathurst
Diamond
Nelson
Government programme aims to register evicted tenants and disestablish Welsh Church
Imperial politics report notes next session will register evicted tenants and end the Welsh Church. Gladstone refuses Scottish Home Rule proposal. Lords amendments to Parish Councils Bill accepted. Parliament prorogues March 6 and reconvenes March 12. Cabinet split over navy vote with Radicals pushing a three million limit.
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Lospor
Gladstone
Scotland
House of Lords
Sinking of Jupiter Warship and Brazilian Hostilities
A Brazilian port report notes forts at Midheroy sinking the insurgent warship Jupiter and yellow fever spreading in virulence. Admiral Gama blocks discharge in the bay as U.S. interference threatens to seek a cessation of hostilities amid Brazil’s presidential election dispute. The Jupiter crew perished according to Nictheroy batteries.
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Midheroy
Jupiter
Gama
WashingTon
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United States
Arope Jantene
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