Bahama Islands prosper
Prohibition in the United States, which caused enormous quantities of liquor to descend almost like an avalanche upon the city of Nassau, in the Bahama Islands, has transformed the Bahama...
100 years ago
Steamer return
Steamer return
The trim little steamer Stella, which left Dunedin last Thursday week on one of her periodical trips to the Campbell Islands, returned to port yesterday morning after an unsuccessful attempt to...
Clutha Valley railway advocated
Clutha Valley railway advocated
For a considerable number of years the settlers of Clutha Valley have been placed at a great disadvantage owing to the poor and uncertain river steamer service by which their needs are supposed to...
Hall financing approved
Hall financing approved
The proposal to erect a new Town Hall in Dunedin has been further considered by the Finance Committee of the City Council, more particularly in regard to the finding of funds to cover the cost of...
Railway housing scheme
Railway housing scheme
The Railway Department has inaugurated a house building scheme on a large scale. The present programme involves the erection of 400 houses as a commencement.
Nevis community stalwart dies
Nevis community stalwart dies
Death has claimed still another worthy pioneer in the person of Mrs Helen M. Elliot, who passed away at Nevis on Tuesday morning at the advanced age of 81 years.
Popularising the Scout movement
Popularising the Scout movement
Owing to the kindness of Mr P. R. Sargood the Boy and Girl Scouts were able to spend a very pleasant afternoon on his property at Newington yesterday.
Honouring our founding settlers
Honouring our founding settlers
There are various anniversaries which we may appropriately desire to honour and to keep in remembrance. There are others which are our own peculiar property, and are of interest only within the...
Questioning military training
Questioning military training
"There is a tendency to the development of the military aspect in education, and I believe it is a fatal mistake." said Professor T. Hunter at a meeting in Wellington the other night (states...
Rabbit inspector’s word is law
Rabbit inspector’s word is law
The heaviness of some of the fines which are now being imposed by magistrates upon landowners who are being prosecuted for failure to destroy rabbits on private land has had the effect of focussing...
Domestic servants in short supply
Domestic servants in short supply
The fact that there is that which money cannot buy is receiving more and more prominence in the evolution of the social system.
Garden fete again profitable
Garden fete again profitable
With so many sources of amusement on foot on Saturday afternoon, as large an attendance as usual could scarcely be expected at the Citizen's Garden Fete; yet a large number of persons, women and...
A bush doctor’s rugged life
A bush doctor’s rugged life
It is stated that during the recent conference of the New Zealand Medical Association in this city one of the members, speaking upon the proposed State medical system, and the payment of State...
Hospital fee increase debated
Hospital fee increase debated
The question of raising the regular charges for the maintenance of patients in hospital was put before members of the Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board at Tapanui on Tuesday by Mr W. Quin,...
Drought affecting the South
Drought affecting the South
A traveller who has just seen a considerable part of South and Central Otago and Southland has given the Oamaru Mail a somewhat dismal description of the appearance of the country.
Rev Kendall’s 1814 NZ diary found
Rev Kendall’s 1814 NZ diary found
Sydney: A contribution to the initial chapter in the colonisation and Christianisation of New Zealand has just come to light here in the shape of ‘‘A Journal of My Proceedings During a Voyage from...
Anglican nuns offer social work
Anglican nuns offer social work
Bishop Richards presided over a meeting in St. Paul’s Schoolroom yesterday afternoon, called for the purposes of considering in what way the Sisters of St. Anne, who are starting a home for the...
Anglo-Saxon control
Anglo-Saxon control
Wellington: Speaking at the opening of the Chamber of Commerce Conference, the Prime Minister referred to conditions in the Pacific Islands and to the importance of the islands being under Anglo...
Wakatipu-Milford link progressing
Wakatipu-Milford link progressing
Guide J. N. Lipp and a party of four University students — Messrs M. S. Harris, D. R. Jennings, Stewart Crawford, and J. Tanner, all of Dunedin — returned to Queenstown last night from the...
Electrical scheme
Electrical scheme
The hydro-electric meeting at Roxburgh last Thursday evening led to some very straight speaking on the part of local residents, who stated that they were sick and tired of hearing city people speak...