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Category Archives: Politics
Some pieces relating to blackbirding from New Zealand papers
At first relatively small ships – cutters, and ketches, and schooners – from New Zealand’s more northerly ports made up the bulk of the Kiwi blackbirding fleet, but as time went on, and the profits to be made from the … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Politics
Tagged Crime, Murder, Nautical, New Zealand Social History, NZ, Poetry, Politics, Prose, Prussians of the South Seas
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The Legion of Frontiersmen in New Zealand
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19360320.2.52.1&srpos=32&e=——-10–31—-2legion+of+frontiersmen– Mentioned due to their involvement in the Victor Penny death ray story, the Legion of Frontiersmen was an organisation existing throughout the British Empire, originally founded with the purpose of providing a core of local scouts and guides capable of aiding … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, War
Tagged International, Napier EarthQuake, New Zealand Social History, NZ, War
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F-rays will end war forever!
Pacifist fever dream or the embryonic stirrings of mutually assured destruction, gestating deep in the new faith in science’s ability to solve man’s ills? Or was this simply clutching at any possibility of averting the upcoming war? EXIT WAR. Star , Issue 10938, … Continue reading
Mayor shoots poet
1920 Mayor shoots poet D’Arcy Cresswell On 15 May, Whanganui Mayor Charles Mackay shot the poet and returned soldier Walter D’Arcy Cresswell. The latter, who was only slightly injured, alleged that Mackay had made homosexual advances to him in the mayoral … Continue reading
Arthur Desmond and Might is Right (1890)
Might Is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest, is a book by pseudonymous author Ragnar Redbeard. First published in 1890, it heavily advocates amoral-ism, and psychological hedonism. In Might Is Right, Redbeard rejects conventional ideas of human and natural rights and argues that only strength or physical might can establish … Continue reading
the Arts and Crafts movement and Occult social reform
We have from the Forerunner, the magazine of the Havelock Work , post 1913 – after there transition into a magical order, a summation of the aims of the work especially through promotion of the values of the Arts and Crafts movement
Posted in Politics
Tagged Art, British Idealism, Customs, Felkin, Golden Dawn, NZ, Politics, Whare Ra
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A New Zealand Parable
AN ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT. Observer, Volume 9, Issue 533, 9 March 1889, Page 12 With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TO18890309.2.32&e=——-100–1601—-2%22hymn+to%22–
A British reaction to fascism
Though clearly not originating from a New Zealand reporter this opinion piece is interesting both in its brief but vivid use of Classical Personification (pushing the concept of metaphor in to territory bordering sincerity) and its examination of the British view of the character of their society and … Continue reading
Posted in International, Politics
Tagged Britannia, British Idealism, Goddess, International, Politics
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