THE HOLIDAY ELSEWHERE.
• fBT- TELTSGEAPH — PEESS ASSOCIATION.] j DUNEDIN, This Day. The •vreatfaer is gloriously fine .for thai holiday. " The principal attractions art, the Taieri races, and the bowling and** la-wn tennis tourneys. CHEISTCHURCH, This" Day. The ■weather promised well for the. holiday in the early morning; although' fog hung over" th_e city. The streets' ■were full of people in the morning on then- way to seaside and other xesorts. Shortly before .noon dark clouds gathered in Ihe-south, and rain commenced >to fall, causing considerable inconvenience to* holiday makers, many of whom were unprepared. The principal attraction is' the Easter Meeting of the Canterbury^ Jockey Club at Kiccarton.
According to the reports of the_ Norwegian Whaling Companies operating in' -the South Seas, the total quantity 01 oil. won last year was 130,300 barrels* (agcinst 112,000 in 19095., representing,^ rt the price of .531 per torn, .a vahie-<ofi close uoon twelve million kroner. The United States Government. bas« begun a fight against -what all regard' to be- -one of the most completemonopolies in the country. -^ striVhaa been laid against 35 concsrns eaigaged. in the manufacture of incandescent electric lights.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1911, Page 8
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188THE HOLIDAY ELSEWHERE. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1911, Page 8
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