Clyde shipyard launches and global updates in September
September on the Clyde saw two warships nineteen steamers and three sailing vessels launched. Reports include swimming records in Liverpool, Bulgarian rebellion near Salonika, casualties at Monastir, scarlatina serum cure in Vienna, and a proposed salvage treaty. Also notes on Irish MP imprisonment, P and O home port shift, Shanhaikwan to China transfer, Alexandrian cholera, and miners strikes in France and Pennsylvania.
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Clyde
London
Cavill Best Billington
Liverpool
Lane
Soria
Monastir
Turkey
Salonika
Sorza
Vodens
Vienna
International Maritime Conference
Lonpox
East Limerick
Irish League
P and O
The
Shipping “Gazette
Peninsular Company
Southampton
Prxin
E. M. Satow
Shanhaikwan-Pekin
China
Alexandria
Cyclone in Sicily Drowns Sixty as Storms Rattle Region
Rome reports a cyclone in Sicily leaving sixty dead. Syracuse province damage pegged at £200000. Mount Etna vents steam near the 1892 eruption site and five caldera craters appear on Stromboli. Romer notes ongoing storms and rescue efforts.
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Rome
Sicily
Syracuse
Mount Etna
Calis
Times reports Boer funds and war relief efforts in capetown
The Times Capetown correspondent says local Boer funds total £62788 with much directed to prisoners of war. Women and Orphans Committees invested £26976 and will stay invested until Boer ministers rejoin congregations. Licenses for claims numbered 13572 Pietersburg and 8895 Barberton districts, with orderly purging at daybreak on the 25th. Lord Milner discusses settlement with burghers including Cronje’s son and Vandermeywe, praising Boer child education plans.
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London
Times
Capetown
Pietersburg
Barberton
Lord Milner
Western Transvaal
General Cronje
J. I. Vandermervwe
Minig
Johannesburg
Boer Manifesto and Boer Generals Visit Berlin in October
The article notes General Viljoen urging Britain’s friendship and states Boer Generals will visit Berlin in mid October seeking an audience with the Kaiser. It also promotes Sanper and Sons Eucalyptus Extract as the genuine product, citing tests by Bonn and Greifswald clinics to warn against substitutes in treating croup bronchitis diphtheria and related illnesses.
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London
Viljoen In
Britain
Baru
Berlin
SanpEr and Sons
Italy
Amsterdam
Sander and Sons
Bonn
Griefswald
Ecussia
Parliament Proceedings in Wettington September Session
The council met at 2 30 pm with Hon W Kelly granted leave due to family illness. Bills passed final stages include Legislative Council Act Amendment West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment and Accident Insurance Companies. The Lands Titles Protection Bill was committed after debate on native and European interests with Native concerns raised by Hon K Taiaroa and Hon Tomonna. The Bill was reported without amendment and other bills advanced including Solicitors' Bill of Costs Licensing Committees and Polls Company Act Amendment with a director payment clause.
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Wettington
W. Kelly
Legislative Council
D. Orimieud
Tomonna
K. Taiaroa
Pitt
Solicitors
Lee Smith
Parley on Church Union and Traffic Bills In New Zealand House
The House of Representatives met in Welli e ton on September 29 for first readings of the Methodist Church of Australia and New Zealand Bill and the Assets Realisation Board Land Bill. Debates covered railway compensation, mining act changes, stamp duty clarifications, inspections, and site bills. The afternoon session addressed accident insurance amendments and poisons importation with a sheep dip exception.
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Railways Committee
William Cagne
Waiwakarua
Thomas McKenzie
Jackson Palmer
Ashburton Live Stock Market Highlights and Prices
Large attendance of farmers and dealers at the Ashburton Yards with strong sheep prices and a generally upward trend. Cattle sale steady though quality mixed. hoggets and fat wethers show notable gains as spring feed improves prospects. Detailed prices list entries for Carrie Stores, butchers sorts, freezers, and various sheep classifications.
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Ashburton
Carrie
Springer
Amalgamation planned by British tobacco firms
Four thousand tin plate workers in Linnelly Wales strike for eight hour shifts. Obituary notes the death of novelist Emile Zola in Paris from accidental asphyxiation aged sixty two. Imperial Tobacco buys American Tobacco British stake and Ogden's Ltd, forming a £6 million British American Tobacco Company with a view to cross border amalgamation. The King and Ireland connection noted.
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London
Imperial Tobacco Company
American Tobacco Company
Ogden's Limited
Zola
King
Ireland
Tom Mann blocked at Melbourne Labour meeting
Tom Mann faced disruption at the Trades Hall as supporters of a rival labour candidate blocked his attempt to speak. In Adelaide the Bisley rifle team was welcomed back at the Town Hall with plans for possible English and Canadian teams visiting Australia next year.
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Metuoouris
Tom Mann
Guilfoyle
Christconuncn Magistrates Court Fine for Barmaid Violation
James Maher, licensee of the Oxford Hotel, was fined for keeping a barmaid after eleven at night. An inquest into Rudolf Kelly's death by burns found death from shock. William Porter, expressman, died of a skull fracture after a fall from his cart. Sawmillers’ dispute terms agreed. mine awaits water clearance and two months for coal. Unemployed call a public meeting to push faster State Coal railway.
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United Press Association
Electric
Christconuncn
James Maher
Hcensee
Oxford
Rudolf Kelly
Auckland
William Porter
Greymourn
Heratcore
Tyneside
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Electric Telegraph
Paris
National Committee
Saint Remy
General Frater
France
Montiera
M. M. Andres
Pelletans
Pennsylvania
New
Roosevelt
Scheffer
New York
Jellinek
Danube
Sypyev
William Williams
Autat
Brisbane
Duke of Sutherland
Romer
South Africa
Parliament
House of Representatives
Carroll
Legislature Council
Ward
Victoria College
Mills
New Zealand
Ashburton Live Stock Market
Theatest
Home and Foreign
Wwectris Belograph
Tobacco Trust
Dublin Chamber of Commerce
Earl Dudley
Robert Harding Milward
Birmingham
Melbourne
David Thomas
Rakaia Sale
Whos
Dowling
Rakaia
Messrs Hardy and Co
D. Thomas
BRD
Thomas
T. H. Andrill and Co
Highbank
Davis Bros
Dr. Thomas
Shale
Grorce Murpock
Uncheon
Db, Thomas
Ashburton Amateur Cycling & Athletic Club
Ips
Bir
D. Thomas’ Arcade
Dubins
M. J. Lynskey
Irving Sayles
Charles Howa
Frank Elliott
Miss May Lewis Mies Belle Ray and the Kine
Charles Pope
James Harvay
Belvine
Misa
Madge Morris
Ivy Akerstein
Iscope
Overture
Harry P. Muller
Burnett Street
Airton
Garforth
T. Bullock
Mayfield Saleyards Co. Ltd
A. J. Huston
Carters Terrace
Tinwald
Mayfield
W. Canzey
W. Coover
Cox Street
Bullock
Mayfield District
B.S
F. ¥. Hydes
Ap Aea
P. Bullock
William Taylor Smith
Staveley
F. Ferriman
Hannah Smith
H.C. Barnett
Uresh
Sandow
Kingswood
Pitman
Tennyson
Black Rock
Sky Pilot
Men of Glengarry
Penelope
England
Hound of the Haskervilles
New Eye Farm
A. T. H. Winuiame
Northcote
Hefford
Wheeler
Hardley Bros
Templar Hall
Horace A. Gates
E. Manchester
Beocemy
Shburton Musical Union
Saunders’ Buildings
Oddfellows’ Hall
Bess
J. H. Jewrer
Havelock Street
New Easy
Kiilipse
Monark
Stearns
Willowby
Canson and Co
Eclipse
Eenirsa Crone Go
Swift Cycle
Arly Rose
Beauty of Bath
Beauty of Hebron
Robin Adair
Sutton
Carson and Co
Warren Known
J.T. Cooch
Mernier
Gealandin
Willowbur
Carsoux and Co
Woust
I. Gibbard
Tancred Street
Garanwr & Moone, Saunders’ Buildings
Grant & Moone, Saunders’ Buildings
McGlusky
God’s Foundling
Richard Calmady
Zenda
Tatterly
Massavins
IBM
Jonze
Grant Ann Moorz
Grant Ann Moorg
H. C. Barrett
Eclipse Cycle Co
Gibbard's
Ready Money Draper
Christchurch
Fpilettcher Bros
N.B
Gibbared
Tancrad Street
J. T. Cooch
ATES
Jonx Ornand Co
Stouyer
Fredlander Bros Ltd
West Street
Mary
Friedlander Bros
Len
Friedlander
COM
Friedlander Ebros
Lev
Lyndhurst
Friedlander Bros., Lrp
Ero
Friedlander Bros., Ltd
Chare
Sunbeam Tea
Friedlander Bros. Ltd
Mowry
Lenp
John Orr and CO
John Orrand
Carpenters
Forges
Antils
Farriers
Bedstead & Bedding
Lee
Lrp
Farm Seeds
Alsyke
Friedlander Bros., Lip
Ess
Fletcher Bros
Joan Organo Co
Osborne
Ing
H. Millward and Son and
Bar‘lett
Redditch
John Opp and CO
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