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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
2
A well watered and sub-divided property offers a seven-room dwelling with barn stables good orchard and garden priced at five pounds per acre. The listing emphasizes ample water and productive layout for farming or residence in a rural setting.
The entry lists lunar phases and related times with perigee data. It mentions Last Quarter First Quarter Full Moon and a date string 31 4.58 am, plus APO OG and Friday 8 40 pom with perigee values 22 6.80 im.
Mail notices dated Saturday August 8 cover routes from Northern Ports and Westport to Viji Honolulu Canada United States Europe and the United Kingdom via Vancouver destined for London on September 11 with a rate of 15 cents per hour.
Mr K. E. Upton urges Parliament to pass a law like New South Wales Careless Use of Tires Act 1906 to curb fires harming farmers and graziers. The piece laments long neglect of fire prevention across the colony and backs the Ashburton delegation’s push for urgent, representative action.
July figures for Ashburton include births 24 with 18 males and 12 females, 6 tenths with 5 males and 1 female, and marriages 8. In July 1908 births 24 and marriages 2. Also notes on flour from Australia, a Gisborne Council protest over iron pipe duties, a septicity discussion at the Domain inspection, Victoria’s photo postcard bids, a death of John W Grimes on a Transvaal farm, and Baltic separator advertising by MacEwan & Co. Dunedin.
The report lists a 13 degree frost at the Domain weather station and a Lyttelton dairyman J T Gallagher fined for selling impure milk. It covers band contest music from Wright and Round Liverpool, various local meetings, railway and agricultural notes, and public notices on loans, tariffs, and local politics.
Employees of Friedlander Bros Ltd honored two departing staff members with gifts. Mrs Dixon received a desk and gold watch and chain, while Mr Gustav Friedlander received a travelling bag and a director's cheque. Dixon departs after fourteen years. he will join Mr Y Werriman and move to the North Island.
The Domain Board inspected the grounds and authorized the curator to cut down spruce and other trees to make room for permanent trees. They approved a hedge removal and replacement with a wire fence, and discussed closing Allen ton path and erecting a new drive to the North East Bolt. Further items include water race alteration, Bowling Club green control, and supervision requirements for any work.
Report from Wellington on an agricultural conference where the committee urged a government bill to curb rural fires. Provisions target igniting inflammable material near crops and stacks, with penalties up to 50 pounds or three months imprisonment and immediate magisterial investigations for fire damage and compensation.
The Minister of Customs in Dunedin on August 1 informed warehousemen and retailers that all consideration will be given to their request regarding the removal of cotton and linen goods in the middle of the drapery.
The article reviews a test selection piece for the Second Class Band Contest to be held in Ashburton. It details the opera style plot of The Colleen Bawn with Hardress Cregan, Myles na Coppuleen, and the romantic arc, describing hunting choruses, cadenzas, and vocal numbers as performed by a Liverpool submission.
A July dispatch reports no earthquake shocks at Loch Garroch Inverness-shire. It notes Nimrod, Shackleton’s steam yacht refitted as the Antarctic expedition ship, sails on Tuesday and will be inspected by the King and Queen in Cowes. Also covered are opium trade, New Hebrides convention, Leonard Marshall estate, Balkan fighting, Hague Peace Palace, Vancouver Japan friction, and U.S.-Mexico talks on Japanese labor.
Alfred Michelly faced a claim of embezzling £1048 8d from Win gate. The alleged offense was discussed in Auckland with a single pension admitting the act. The books remain under examination as officials review the case.
Wellington July 31. The Advisory Board of the Employers' Federation fixed August 21 as the annual conference date to be held in Wellington.
The first battalion of the Berkshire regiment with a Maxim gun section has been transferred to Belfast from Ballyshannon, as part of Irish affairs movement noted in London on July 81.
London dispatches report the government prohibiting an Irish Teaguer gathering at Balla County Mayo to curb intimidation linked to a boycotted grazing farm. Sir Thomas Esmond in June urged nationalist cooperation with Liberals end and push for repeal of the Union. In Belfast 500 troops deployed as police insubordination rises and sympathy with strikers spreads to other towns.
The chairman of the Great Eastern and South-Eastern Railway companies said at their meetings that directors would resist the movement fomented by railwaymen in all grades and do not intend to recognise the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants.
London reports detail a Crown case against the Duke of Richmond over duty on his Scottish estates. Encumbrances tied to entailed trusts are argued to be genuine, with judgment reserved by Mr Justice Kray pending further review of related Roadwood holdings.
London reports reveal Gladstone and officials pressing for disclosure of papers in the Edalji case. The public process unfolds as legal authorities seek justification and potential action.
Reports from July detail ongoing outrages attributed to Jack the Ripper in Berlin, with authorities investigating new incidents and public alarm spreading across the city.
London reports an influential Ireland movement aims to present a testimonial to Sir Horace Plunkett for his services as vice president of the Department of Agriculture. He suggests funds be used to establish a Bureau of Rural Special Welfare. A promotional blurb for RheumG claims cures for rheumatism gout and sciatica.
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