THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD,” APRIL 21, 1906.
Further messages about the San Francisco earthquake showed that it had occurred at 5.16 a.m. Fire was sweeping .through the ruined buildings- on an eightmile frpnt. It was believed that the whole city was doomed. . In a few weeks £I2OO had been raised toward the 'cost of installing a larger organ at the Napier Cathedral. A report of a meeting of the Terraco End School Committee showed ; that permission had been granted a dentist to examine the teeth of the pupils, a date for the visit being, specified. The jubilee of Presbyterianism in Canterbury was to be celebrated on the next Sunday. ' The first minister of that church in Canterbury had landed iu Lyttelton in April, 1856. Dr. J. A. Dowie was retiring from the pastorate of Zion City, stated a New York message, and lie had accepted a low rate of interest on his investments. A message from Pietermaritzburg stated that the situation in regard to the native revolt under Bambaata was most critical.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 2
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174THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 2
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