Bible Reading in New Zealand Public Schools Hopeful Change
Op Ed argues New Zealand should include Bible reading in state schools. Wellington Bible-in-Schoola League proposes nonsectarian lines: Bible as classic text, no comments beyond geography grammar and history, state teacher oversight, and exemption for conscientious objectors. Public committee responses trend toward support as referendum results loom.
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Jack
Ond
Wellington
Sonke
Johnston's Bicycle Bargains In Second Hand Sale
Ricvetes reduced to £12 162 with tree wheels brakes and tyres. Grand selection of Dunlops Palmers clinchers etc. 25 second hand bicycles all makes from £1 10s. You can't beat Johnston's for value. Come at once and secure Bergains.
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Clinchers
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Local and General News Roundup and Notices
Captain Edwin telegraphed rough weather with strong southerly winds and rain. Ashburton Guards held a Morris tube match with top scores Corpl Shearer 835-1 and Corpl Clayton 34-2. A Cold Storage Company to be formed at Timaru with £8000 capital. Ourtook's famine fund closed at £464 plus 200 cases of preserved food. Loyal Orange Lodge dinner and dance. attendance large. speeches by Rev Liddell and W Leadley. Several clerical appointments announced for Agricultural Department. Presbyterian ministers resigning in Auckland Province. 12 charges vacant. Barnardo's Homes 1906 year figures. Southland Daily News registered as private company with £26,000 capital. Ashburton housewives offered enamel trays. G H Carson Cycle Works Highlights.
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Percy
Timaru
Ourtook
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Orange Hall
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Nora Gunderson
Dunedin
J. M. Bell
Invercargills
Agricultural Department
Wellington
M. J. Vitagibbon
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Napier
Christchurch
Longton
A. Sharp
Calleatt
Auckland
R. J. Macniver
Epson
James Ervine
Pukekohe
B. J. Evans
Mahurangi
G. B. Munro
Barnardo
Canada
Southland Daily News
Ashburton
G. H. Carson
Notable Duck Auction Sets Gore Show Record
The best duck at Gore poultry show was bought at auction last Saturday for 1s. Mr Bl, M.H.LR., and Mr Whatman, M.H.LR., back efforts to secure a Peel Forest scenic reserve. They secured 490 acres of bush with Crown land for freehold owners. The Minister of Lands moves to add 100 acres, 40 virgin forest. Major Hughes, D.S.G., notes rifle clubs’ arms are among the best kept in the colony per Defence Department report.
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Whatman
Peel Forest
Major Hughes
D.S.G
Defence Rifle Clubs
Defence Department
Accidents Reported in Gore and Ashburton Districts
Information shows Bert Tutty of Ashburton injured in a Gore printing office accident likely losing an arm. James Cuthbertson, head plough man at Duncan Cameron's Spring field estate, died after a fall from a spring cart injuring his spine. Funeral for Cuthbertson set for 12 30 tomorrow from Spring field to Methven cemetery.
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Bert Tutty
Richard Tutty
Ashburton
Gore
James Cuthbertson
Duncan Cameron
Springfield
Fle
James
Methven
Inquest Finds Infant Death Due to Suffocation
In Dunedin a coroner declared the death of Nora Gunderson’s infant girl as suffocation. The jury found insufficient evidence to determine if the death was accidental or not, following the prior concealment charge.
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Dunedin
Nora Gunderson
Implement Firms Decline Agricultural Show Exhibits
A meeting of implement importers and manufacturers in Christchurch decided not to exhibit at any agricultural shows in the colony next year due to the expense involved. The decision was reported by the Press Association.
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Christchurch
True Sport No 2 Debate on Ambition in Sport
Correspondence discusses the idea that ambition drives sport and whether ambition is selfish. The letter criticizes True Moderater for downplaying selfishness in sport, arguing contemporary ambition is tied to broader social greed.
Human Hearts Comedy at Oddfellows Hall One Night
Pathos and humor collide in the American drama Human Hearts presented for a single night at Oddfellows Hall. The story follows Tom Loran amid Arkansas intrigue and a rival, Frederick Armidale, with Ernest Leceister in the English Tom Logan role. Directed by Edwin Geach and staged with J C Williamson arrangements. Box plan at H M Jones East Street.
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Tom Loran
Arkansas
Frederick Armidale
Ashburton
Ernest Leceister
Australasia
Tom Logan
Edwin Geach
J. OC. Williamson
H. M. Jones
East Street
Orangemen of Christchurch Hold Twelfth Celebration
In Christchurch on July 15 the Orangemen gathered at the Orange hall to mark the Twelfth of July. A resolution called for strenuous protest against British Government measures aimed at granting Home Rule to Ireland. A procession and two church parades with special Orange sermons are planned for the next day.
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Christchurch
Orangemen of
Orange Hall
Ireland
Arbitration case in Blenheim affects threshing crew wages
An important arbitration in Blenheim ruled on whether a threshing machine owner or the farmer employed the crew after a worker lost an eye. The decision found the machine owner was the employer. A settlement ends the dispute and may require machine owners to pay all gang wages in contracts.
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Goff
David Bishell
Bishell
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Scott-Smith, &M
Sir H Campbell-Bannerman heckled over knighthood row
In London on July 12, Sir H Campbell-Bannerman faced heckling in the House of Commons over the knighthood granted to James Smith director of an Ayrshire foundry. The foundry allegedly supplied a defective rudder to the King Edward VII battleship and was a noted electioneering backer of Campbell-Bannerman.
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London
Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman
House of Cottons
Si James Smith
Ayrshire
McKenna proposes £100,000 for new schools amid act clash
Mr McKenna urges spending £100,000 on building elementary schools in single school areas while Mr Balfour objects that this overrides the 1870 Act prohibiting public funds for elementary schools. Sir William Anson warns McKenna’s training colleges would impose the Cowper Temple clause, to which McKenna says conscience becomes real. He argues colleges funded publicly must admit all denominations and hints at regulatory action after Lords lessons.
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McAkenna
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Wi. Anson
McKenna
House of Lords
Yamamoto Says Ties With U S Stand Firm
Admiral Yamamoto told a New York banquet that commercial and other intimate relations between the United States and Japan are too close to be harmed by trifling incidents. He said the current cloud would soon lift as Japan trusts America’s sense of justice.
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American Fleet and a Japanese Opinion
Tokio July 12 Marquis Ito's newspaper questions the link between the coming fleet maneuvers in the Pacific and the Japan America tension. It regrets Washington's precautionary steps but does not attach serious importance to the matter.
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Marquis Tto
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Suspiciously Employed Reported in Fort San Diego Drawings
Received July 18 at 9 9 a m New York July 12 Japanese nationals were arrested while making drawings of Fort San Diego Californiaofficials say they were scouting the coastal defense position and questioned by authorities about suspected espionage activities in the area.
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Fort San Diego
California
Dynamite Outrage Hits Johannesburg Mine Pumping Station
Outrage at the Champ D or mine pumping station in Johannesburg marks the fifth dynamite attack. The incident occurred July 12 and damaged the facility, with reports received July 13 at 9.9 a.m. Authorities investigate possible motives and suspects.
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Ducal Estates a Question of Duty
The Crown sues the Duke of Richmond to recover duty on the Scotch estate valued at £750000. Encumbrances in favor of Lord March £450000 and Lord Settling £287000, created after the entail was cut off. Crown argues these encumbrances avoid Finance Act 1804. Judge Bray reserved judgment pending Goodwood estate proceedings.
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Quida’s Downfall From Villa to Homelessness
A Daily Mail report recounts Quida’s fall from luxury to destitution. Expelled from a Lucca villa due to extravagance, she wandered homeless, sheltered briefly by an old servant’s mother, then lived in a milkman’s squalid Maasa rosa dwelling with four days of hunger.
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The
Daily Mail
Quida
Lucca
Maasarosa
Royal visit after Leopardstown races sails to Cardiff
The King and Queen left Ireland aboard their yacht after the Leopardstown races. They praised the warm Irish reception as they departed for Cardiff.
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Ireland
London
Cardiff
Pekin to Paris Motor Race and German Colonial Claims
Prince Borghese reached Tomsk as part of the Pekin to Paris motor race. In Berlin the Reichsheis organ attributed the maltreatment accusations against Dr Peters to English intrigue, accusing Sir F Lascelles of bribing a German journalist to disparage German colonial policy.
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F. Lascelles
Unwholesome Meat Case Indicts Sydney Butcher
Sydney July 12 James Thompson a carcase butcher once referred to in Parliament over bad meat was fined ten pounds for selling a cow carcase in a shocking tuberculosis state. He claimed the cow belonged to his son who was unaware of its diseased state. He said he tried to recover the carcass after learning of the issue.
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Sydney
James Thompson
Fog delays Maori steamship departures at Lyttelton
Unusually thick fog at Lyttelton on July 13 delayed the Monowai’s departure from midnight to 3 am. Seven steamers were due in the outer harbour and, as fog lifted, the Mararoa Talune Te Anan Miowera Toroa followed into the harbour. The Miowera left, enabling the Komata’s launch to depart. the fog finally cleared by ten o’clock that morning.
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Lyttelton
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Lancashire edge Sussex as Poidevin hits 128 not out
Lancashire beat Sussex in a cricket match with Poidevin top scoring 128 not out for Lancashire as the game unfolded.
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London
Lancashire
Sussex
Poidevin
Orth
Sheep rise in New Zealand colony totals
The April 30 colony sheep number reaches 20 816 799, up 843 821 from last year. Distribution across districts lists Auckland 765 806, Napier Gisborne 1 018 26¢, Wellington West Coast 4 933 518, Marlborough Nelson 1 117 866, Canterbury Kaikoura 5 196 400, Otago 2 859 763, with 1906 figures in parentheses for comparison.
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Johnston's Cycle Sale Cuts Prices On Bicycles
A local dealer advertises a sale offering new and second hand bicycles and all bicycle accessories at a 30 percent reduction. The notice references Roll up and secure one of the bar gains at BR DP. Johnstons Cycle.
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Canadian Population Gains 1.28 Million in Six Years
The Census Bureau at Ottawa estimates Canada's population at 6 600 000, a gain of 1 280 000 in six years, with July reports noting the growth as of mid year.
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Ottawa
Census Bureau
Keir Hardie Declines Labour Leader Re election
Keir Hardie told a Manchester audience he would decline re election to the Labour Party chairmanship. He plans to work as a free lance for the Socialists and to discuss Indian affairs while on tour. He said socialists seek justice for Indians and home rule for India.
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London
Keir Hardie
Manchester
Labour Party
India
National Gallery Buys Vandyk Portrait for £13500
The National Gallery purchased Vandyk's portrait of the Marchese Cataneo found at Cataneo Palace Genoa for 13 500 pounds.
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The
National Gallery
Vandylk
Marchese Cataneo
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Genoa
The Bisley Meeting Mackinnon Cup Details
Weather favored the Mackinnon Cup competition with England scoring 1618, Scotland 1506, Australia 1467, Canada 1450, and Ireland 1410. The event was open to England Ireland Scotland Wales and British dependencies with ten men ten shots at 800 900 and 1000 yards.
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England
Scotland
Australia
Canada
Ireland
Wales
Motherland Wins Kolapore Cup Holders on Tie Break
At Bisley the Motherland and Australia tied 778 points each in the Kolapore Cup contest but the Motherland claimed the Cup by a higher 600 yard score.
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London
Bisley
Motherland
Australia
Missing Fragments Cite McIntyre Arrest in New Zealand Exhibit
The record notes McIntyre arrested in Monte Video on a charge of alleged misappropriation of money. Detective MeKveney reports custody returning toward the New Zealand Exhibition on a Tirakina voyage.
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MeKveney
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Zealand
Tirakina
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Monte
Submarine Eruption Reported Near Tongatabu
The steamer Navue reports a serious submarine eruption about thirty miles from Tongatabu, ejecting lava high into the air. The alert was received July 13 at 11:07 a.m. with further update on July 18.
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Sava
Navue
Tongatabu
Prisoners Sentenced by Mr Justice Button in Wellington
Supreme Court Wellington heard several prison sentences today. William Arthur Brock received eighteen months in prison for breaking and entering. John Morrison, aged 66, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering linked to starvation and was sentenced to seven years.
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Justice Button
William Arthur Brock
John Morrison
Wreck of Kia Ora Enquiry Concludes in Auckland
The Kia Ora wreck inquiry in Auckland resumed with Mrs. Cavanagh testifying about the night of the disaster. She described being aboard with her husband, his efforts to save her and other passengers, and the chaos on deck and in the lifeboats as the vessel went down. The hearing closed with counsel addressing the court and a decision reserved.
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De'Wolfe
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