THIRTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM “STANDARD.” APRIL 12, 1910.
The Westminster Gazette had described Sir John Dickson-Poynder (afterwards Lord Islington), the newlyappointed Governor-General of New Zealand, as “a politician with a liking towards independent thought.” For a purse of £3OOO and the heavyweight championship of Australia, over 20 rounds, the.boxer Burns had beaten Lang on points. It was reported from Vienna that Austria had launched a new 14,500-ton battleship, the Grinzi. It was stated that two Dreadnoughts were also being built. Making the sixth fire in the town within a week, the Palmerston North Sash and Door factory had been destroyed. . Joseph Powelka, who was being pursued by the Palmerston North and district police, was reported to have been nearly captured when a man on horseback awakened the fugitive, who was sleeping a short distance away from him in a field,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 114, 12 April 1940, Page 2
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141THIRTY YEARS AGO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 114, 12 April 1940, Page 2
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