Word: christchurch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the Southern Alps of New Zealand, from Greymouth to Christchurch, sped a sleek private train, bearing H. R. H. the Duke of York who personally drove one of the two powerful electric engines which hauled his train swiftly through the five-mile-long mountain tunnel at Otira. Emerging from the tunnel, climbing down from the cab, H. R. H. very graciously received bouquets from three pairs of twins in dainty frocks...
...Christchurch waited the impressive monarch of Chatham Islands, King Tami Solomon (392 pounds). His Majesty had to wait until the Mayor of Christchurch and many another had welcomed the Royal Duke; then King Tami (an impotent old tribal chief) was presented to the second son of the King-Emperor George...
Died. Bobby Leach, 64, English-born "daredevil artist," famed for his successful trip over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel (1911); at Christchurch, New Zealand. Mr. Leach failed in an attempt to swim the rapids of Niagara last fall. His death resulted when he slipped upon a bit of orange peel, broke his leg, and underwent a subsequently fatal amputation...
...Harvard, analogous to the English colleges, will restore to the undergraduates all the opportunities for social contacts, foundations of lasting friendships, and mutual intellectual stimulus which the men of my generation enjoyed in full measure and which the smaller colleges offer today. Even in the larger English colleges, like Christchurch at Oxford, and Trinity at Cambridge, mutual acquaintance extends over the whole undergraduate body, and each student can claim a relatively large number of his fellows as intimate friends...
...Throughout the Commonwealth the strike spread rapidly. Australia was affected at once. There Tom Walsh led the insurgent seamen. Last week 33 ships were tied up at Melbourne. Twelve liners were unable to leave Durban (South Africa). Newcastle (New South Wales), Cape Town, Rangoon (Burma), Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch (New Zealand) were all affected...