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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
4
Mrs Bes announces she has taken over the Confectionery and Dining Room business formerly run by Mrs Hughes on Burnett Street. Hot dinners are a specialty and summer drinks are always in stock.
A shopholder thanks Life customers who paid after a fire and states March as the collection month. Any accounts not paid by 10 March will be acted upon.
WANGANTI region offers 4669 acres of prime sheep country capable of carrying 2 sheep per acre year round with two homesteads and rooms for £41,000. BAY OF PLENTY area lists 7651 acres suitable for sheep and cattle with a good homestead priced at £37,500. HAWKE'S BAY presents 850 acres well improved with new buildings and fences. rent 4d per acre. price includes goodwill and improvements at £6 per acre.
Council met last evening with P H Cox in the chair. Reports showed 811 licenses issued this year, 15 new members including women, and plans to stock brown trout due to drought. Deer horn weights exceed 20 pounds in Rakaia Gorge, shags depleted rivers, and a revenue path via deer stalking was discussed.
At a meeting in Auckland March 31 the No-license Council carried a resolution praising the official declaration signed by the Mayor and 100 professionals of Tavercargill. It says Invercargill's experiment may be safely followed by other electorates and believes the statement will counter false reports aimed at discrediting the movement.
Christchurch Prohibition League prepares to begin a ten days canvass to raise 1500 pounds for the No license movement ahead of the 1908 local option polls. The committee reported 120 pounds already paid or promised.
The New Zealand professional football team arrived in Fremantle aboard the Mongolia after a strenuous tour. Manager Mr Palmer praises the reception and entertainment but notes jealousy from amateur clubs and rule inconveniences. He asserts New Zealand clubs could defeat the teams beaten by the AH Blacks and says Australian officials appreciated the tour’s results.
At a Wellington meeting the Union declared it an act of professionalism for anyone to receive direct monetary payment for playing football. Several additional resolutions on professionalism by individuals or clubs were approved and will be sent to the New Zealand Rugby Union for consideration.
The notice explains worm infestation in children and adults with signs such as nostril irritation and nail biting, disturbed sleep, and drooling. It promotes Comstock's Dead Shot Worm Pellets as a safe remedy available from chemists or W. H. Comstock Co. in Wellington at 1s 8d per box, six boxes for 8s 6d.
A description of stylish footwear highlights fine leather in black and tan with artistic shaping and comfortable fittings. The Bleckoof Store offers an endless variety of evening and dress shoes for inspection.
In Christchurch an inquest returned an accidental death for Sid ney Cadle after a tram accident. In Auckland a 16 year old boy Thomas Humphries was killed by a discharged gun. In Gisborne Thomas Rodgers’s body was recovered after drowning. In Gore farmer John Burke died when his horse toppled on an asphalt path.
The Conciliation Board resumed its enquiry into farm labourers at Rangiora with John Wells testifying on contract work. Witnesses described earnings, hours, and the impact of abolishing contracting on farm operations across several districts, ending with the board moving to Leeston for further evidence.
Johnson contrasts literary life with ignorance, arguing the poet creates a separate world. A night in a market town near Stratford prompts the speaker to hear midnight church bells, awakening a sense of wonder through poetry.
May Corwin Pepsin, an orphan immigrant, faced charges of theft before Mr Kettle S.M. at the Police Court. A fellow immigrant lured her to live as his wife, then deserted her. she turned to work as a Thames barmaid then Nayier Singer sought to place her with sympathetic friends. The magistrate lamented the man’s destruction of her and reserved judgment on her fate.
At the Newmand Flaxmillers Association Executive meeting in Palmerston North the president said he telegraphed the War General about flax property re valuation due to price falls and retested a reply that individual applications are needed. The group plans circulars to members and representations to shipping firms over freight charges. Mr Toogood outlined his flax dressing machine and the panel resolved to contact the Patent Office and other flax associations to arrange a trial.
The Southland Daily News reports heavy bad debts in Invercargill and Travercargil, with one collector for 160 clients noting £33,000 outstanding and at least £20,000 irrecoverable. Extrapolated, retailers nationwide may have lost about £9,000,000 over the past decade.
A client asks how to handle a land encroachment dispute with Brown over a boundary fence. The lawyer jokes to settle privately with a cigar and drink but advises suing to protect rights and secure payment, urging bold action against the neighbor.
Ibrahim Murabadze, a Caucasus brigand, awaits trial at Elizabeth pool after a savage incident where he forced his wife Agafya and her lover Olloff to dance on a heated iron plate. He killed the lover during the torture while guards watched, and a follower later betrayed him, leading authorities to his hiding place.
The piece discusses a Harper's essay on writing as a partnership between mind and inspiration. It notes that great ideas may arrive from unconscious mental processes and that talent blends inner gifts with external expression. It highlights how young writers possess instinctive expression and a natural ear for language.
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