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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 05, 1907
Page
2
The article surveys ongoing Macedonia troubles, Greece and Bulgaria rivalries, and potential international responses. It notes fights near Grodedjik, the Macedonian question’s global stakes, and Brailsford's proposed Turkish governed plan with European oversight to curb violence and restore order.
The weekly stock market will be held tomorrow at Tipwald yards. Wakanui River Board members elected are Thomes Caylor and J W Rodgers. A case of interest is set for hearing at the local court Friday with a strong bar led by George Harper. George Sproat, a local agent for Horthwick and Sons, returns from Melbourne after salesmen departed. The Tesh Selection band arrived in Wrimate with good practice. Meikle will receive £300 for injuries from the Bankside collision. Sargood San and Ewans to form a limited liability company with £700000 capital to take over NZ and London business. Southland Education Board asks inspectors to advise on textbook changes. Newmarket letter box destruction due to a lighted match. police investigate. Feilding Farmers Union dinner notes a rumour about Lands Committee including land for settlement tenants in Band Bil. Confidence in the milking machine LGG grows after tests by farmers over five years. Slackhran and Co. are sole agents in Dunedin. Woods’ Peppermint Cure advertised.
Mild whooping cough cases in country districts. Miss Brown appointed probationer at Ashburton County Hospital. 164 pensioners draw pensions. annual expenditure £3975 1s. Auckland beats Manawatu 6 3 in hockey. Record frost.Domain witnesses early skating. Slaughtering at Fair Hall Works slack. season to close soon. Building boom continues in borough and suburbs. Scottish Society fixes August 22 Scotch concert date. Nelson Pipe Band visit funded. Hampstead raid finds 18 gallon keg of beer. charges likely. Strange's sale draws crowds. stocks replenished daily. Ian MacLaren completed short stories titled St Jude's to be published September. Stories set in Glasgow with Carmichael as lead.
The list shows entries for multiple bands including Ashburton County Band Elite Band and Timaru Marine Band with scores in selection quickstep quartets solo and totals. Aggregate totals by category show selection nine quickstep nine quartets ten and solo one hundred with a final ERAN total of one hundred twenty eight.
Observations for the month at the Do main weather station show barometer high of 30.20 inches on July 30 and low of 29.40 on July 7. Maximum temperature ranged from 64 on July 1 to 41.5 on July 9, with a high minimum of 45 on July 7 and a low minimum of 24 on July 11. Frost occurred on multiple days with scattered readings, and total rainfall reached 1 inch 67 points, compared with 2 inches 61 points in July 1906. Daily records list several notable values across the month.
Weather notes from Ra kai a Kyle Carew and Alford report July rainfall. Ra kai a shows 8 consecutive days totaling 11.25 inches with 0.20 inch max on the 14th. year to date 9.73 inches vs 24.23 inches for July 1906. Kyle records 0.80 points for July with 0.23 points in 24 hours on the 26th. 1906 July total was 2 inches 42 points. Carew notes 87 inches fell over six days, heaviest 0.82 inch on the 20th. Alford lists daily totals with a final July total of 1 inch 68 points.
An odd verse ad promotes RHEATMO as a legendary cure for gout sciatica and rheumatic pain. It claims all chemists stock it for 2s 63 apd 4s 6d while highlighting a punishing remedy to end couchking and similar ailments.
A reader letter argues that重 re aggregation of land in Ashburton county over the past four years has harmed town progress. Wealthy farmers are blamed for “land grabber” activity, driving up prices, pushing young settlers off the land, reducing population and school attendance, and causing hardship for farming families in Wakanui and nearby districts.
The Brisbane afternoon match saw 16 000 to 17 000 spectators as Australia and New Zealand battled with touchdowns and scrambles. Messenger scored, Wallace equalised, and Francis added a late turnover as the Blacks pressed Australian territory. Canterbury beat Buller 19 points. Dansey starred for Otago University at Dunedin.
From London comes the Royal Academy of Music award to Victor Booth for piano forte. A grand naval review in the Solent shows 38 000 crew on 18 ships in eleven lines. Emperor exchanges in Berlin as yachts Hohezollern and Standart dock. Riots in Italy and a fatal motor collision in Bordeaux round out the dispatches.
The livet ed Tenants Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons. Burns's Food Bill for rigid inspection of canned foods at entry and distribution was read a second time. Mr Henniker Heaton ridicules Sidney Maxton's universal penny postage claim, says a net loss of half a million yearly is impossible and £125,000 unlikely.
Police in Anthenry faced a disciplined protest despite a district inspector ban and promise to hear grievances. Four hundred leading demonstrators from Belfast were moved to remote rural areas.
In St Petersburg on August 3 the Czar, receiving a deputation from the Union of Russian People, saw an ikon from the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Stolypin barred several members for hostile attacks, and the rest canceled plans to proceed to Peterhof. The Czar was surprised no one appeared.
Morocco reports Raisuli declares Sir Harry Mac was insincere and captured him. He signals negotiations with the British Legation. Reuter notes expected French and Spanish forces, with signatory powers, to occupy Casablanca within a week.
Paris reports France and Spain will enforce the Algeciras Convention provisions for policing Casablanca and land troops. About 160 French colonial refugees boarded a British merchantman as several French battleships cruisers and Spanish warships prepare to move to Morocco. The Traulian cruiser Etna is to Tangier and the British cruiser Antrim at Gibraltar is ordered to stand ready for duty.
Breytenback was sentenced to three years penal servitude for attempting blackmail by alleging General Botha was bribed by a prewar dynamite commission. De Haag, editor of Landen Folks, was acquitted and discharged with no stain on his character and said he would sue for unjustifiable arrest.
New York reported Judge Landis imposed a 29 240 000 dollar fine on the Standard Oil Trust. Proceedings against the Go-Alton Railway Company are mentioned with harsh remarks toward Rockefeller.
August 3 report notes coalmen's strike spreading from Belfast to London with demands for higher pay. Coal dealers and employers seek freedom to hire without union pressure. Shipping bosses support the stance. The Shipping Federation asks Mr Birrell to back a private force. he refuses to meet them, saying local authorities can handle the unrest.
Readable fragment notes a Polish product, a full sized tin rotary device with 4 hp, and reference to coupons from a last distribution. The text is partial and contains ad style wording and product terms.
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