THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROAI “STANDARD.” JULY 2, 1908. Efforts had been made to re-estab-lish a cadet corps in Palmerston North. A farmer of IVyndham, Otago', had fifteen out of seventeen pigs killed in one night by weasels and stoats. Dividends to the total value of £4,098,860 had been declared in connection with the Rand goldfields for the year. A crowd which had been estimated at 75,000 had gathered at Westminster, London, in connection with a suffragettes’ demonstration. M. Clemenceau’s Bill to abolish capital - punisrment had been withdrawn in the French Chamber. The export of gold from New Zealand in six months had been 254,815 oz. of a value of £1,007,971. While H.AI.S. Britannia had been carrying out a power trial, supplementing the use of coal with oil fuel sprayed on the flaming coals by means of steam injectors, a boiler had exploded suddenly and two stokers and one able seaman had been killed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 182, 2 July 1938, Page 10
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154THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 182, 2 July 1938, Page 10
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