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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 06, 1906
Page
2
Ephemeris notes show Moon rising and setting times and phase transitions for August. Full Moon on the 12th at 3:50 am, Last Quarter, New Moon on the 20th, First Quarter on the 27th. perigee on the 24th, apogee on the 18th at 6:80 pm.
Auction telegram from London dated August 5 shows Canterbury sheep prices light medium heavy at 3d 9-16d 14 1/2d and Canterbury lambs prices light 4 1/6d 4 11/16d heavy 4 4d with Southland and North Island variants. Other meat prices unchanged.
An Australian wheat cargo sold in London at 30 shillings per quarter, with buyers weighing certainty in the market.
Obituaries and memorials recall Eraen Buancan aged 17 of Ashburton Abrest and two Grason children Mary Glasgow born 1904 Juana 1906 noted as beloved, with verses about heaven and loss. Inserted by their grieving father and mother.
The article argues that U S intervention in Central American disputes signals an inevitable protectorate over smaller republics. It traces Monroe Doctrine origins, the Pan American context, and the rise of U S supervisory role as Latin American states clash with European powers.
Manchester Bros promote the Star of New Zealand potato as a premier crop. The ad touts bright resisting and immense yield. A student’s exam joke about a popular home journal appears, with new subscribers urged via Sand stamps or P.N. to Manager Box 4 Timaru 7199.
Recap of local events and notices including wind warnings and street searches, a stock market meeting at Tinwald yards, Thomas Hanrahan leaving for Holy Cross College, Hampstead police search finds an eighteen gallon keg, Ashburton Scottish Society appoints hosts, a sermon remark on Moses dietary laws, Hastings Poultry Show entries and winners, a Strange's Agency sale growing crowded, large Swede turnips on display, a lunar eclipse observed with commentary, Loyal Mayfield Lodge anniversary and parade with church service and charity collection.
Mr Nutter of Cambridge Waikato plans to leave the colony for England to claim a fortune of £60,000 awaiting him. He is 78 years old and in humble circumstances, learning of his luck by accident.
A Timaru Herald letter urges Parliament action on a branch railway from Temuka to Mount Somers area via Gora dice Rangitata and Ruapuna. Advocates form of a railway league with local councils and chambers of commerce to back a low cost, profitable line, possibly funded by South Canterbury debentures.
In Melbourne Supreme Court Chief Justice Madden heard a case alleging imitators misused the Sander & Sons name. Prosecution detailed that Sander & Sons Pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract offers superior antiseptic healing, no heart depression, no harmful ingredients, and 30 years of authoritative praise, urging buyers to seek genuineness.
The Wakanui Road Board met Saturday with chairman G. W. Leadley and members Bruge Doig Allen and Doak. They advertised stopping several roads, noted no response on Mea Richards land, and discussed road by laws for traction engine traffic. Also reported were tenders for road work, shingle supplies, and a 6 16 of a penny rate for the coming year.
Anama Rat Board held in Hakeno with members J. G. Cree chairing. Discussion covered a drain complaint, crown lands purchase options for a land parcel, stone crusher tender terms, and road works plans for Shepherds Bush Mayfield and Valetta Morran roads. A 1906 7 rate was set. accounts total £49 123 1d.
Hints of health remedies with Woods Great Pappermint Cura and a bold tailor’s sale offer. Craighead and Berryntin promote two suites for one price with a Viennese or Fox’s Serge Sunday Suit and Tweed options. Exhibition rush looms as orders pile up at Ashburton shop. Also promotional notes for Tingla Polish through W Predpy’s agent.
At the Wakanui Road Board meeting a Christchurch Technical Classes letter urged expanding wool classing instruction. Board favors travelling lectureships to bring demonstrations to Ashburton and nearby districts, citing £100,000 annual losses from farmers misclassing wool and urging three or four lectures before the next wool season.
The leading American theatre owners form an inter state amusement company with capital of 740,900 pounds to produce new plays including A Would Be Murderer. Hoboken police arrest an Italian amid dynamite plot suspicions. London reports king and Kaiser meeting planned at Friedrichshof on August 10. Police evict land grabbers as another unemployed group reoccupies the plot.
A hazardous device injures the Governor of Samaria while an assassin is seized. A general strike spreads in Saint Petersburg as tram services fail and river steamers halt. Thousands of factory workers walk out and the Council of Workmen's Delegate cooperates with Revolutionary Committees. Railway workers strike in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Moscow Guards demand reforms, refuse officers’ orders, and Cossacks move to disband the disaffected barracks.
On August 5 at Sveaborg a ringleader attempted escape in three boats while batteries fired. Several were killed or wounded as two boats were recaptured. Then a mutiny broke out aboard the Pamystazova with officers’ rifles unlocked and lights out. Six officers were killed before mutineers fled in a lifeboat.
Civil War turmoil at Sveaborg erupts as troops refuse dispersal and fire on officers after a July 80 incident. Six officers killed, four wounded, one bayoneted, and others hanged. A Sveaborg magazine blast cripples mutineers, many Red Guards. leader Kock arrested at Halsingfors. Church damaged, fortifications pocked with shell fragments.
The mutinous Kronstadt sailors are in custody as Captain Krinitsky is arraigned before a mixed tribunal and sentenced to death. A large crowd heard the firing squad, a Ye Mine cry interrupted the scene. Meanwhile 35,000 workers remain idle in St Petersburg and railway strikes have not yet begun.
A well known chest and lung remedy named Ts For Sheldon is promoted as a new discovery. The ad states the product is 64 and 8 par bottle and available at Manchester Bros for purchase.
London reports the Cockermouth bye election results with Sir J Bandles Unionist on 4693 votes, Me Guosh Liberal 3908, and Mc Smithie Labour 1436. Parliament reconvenes on October 33 with these results pending.
The United Progs Association telegraph from London reports an £69,920 rise in wages at Roagat dockyards, placing shipwrights there on par with private shipbuilding yards, signaling parity in pay scales amid Aug 5 notices.
Victorian finances announce a loan of £100000 at 34 per cant with 9 percent minimum. surplus funds to England and a four million conversion loan planned. Bishop Tangley of Bendigo is dead. A Pastoral Letter urges anti gambling measures. Ada Hassett arrested for murdering her husband with an axe in bed, jealousy suspected.
United Press analysis notes Americans misjudge Australia as part of New Zealand due to heavy advertising of New Zealand as a tourist and settlement destination. A leading manufacturer observes Australians’ lack of self-promotion while U S visitors assume Sydney and Melbourne are under New Zealand influence.
James Furlong, 28, rushed to his mother's Newton home claiming he was shot by an unknown man. Doctor Davis reports a serious neck wound from a weapon fired at close range, contrasting Furlong's account of the assailant fleeing across the street.
Telegraph Camano reports the New Zealand International Exhibition is canceled due to lack of support from major manufacturers and exhibitors. Prospective exhibitors must arrange their own participation plans.
A special meeting of the Wakanui River Board approved a general rate on rateable properties, graded by land class, for 1906-07. The rate ranges from one farthing per pound for class one to one sixteenth of a penny for lower classes, with Thomas and Anderson to sign the roll. An ordinary meeting followed as repairs to protective works were noted and the clerk was instructed to contact the Valuation Department. Accounts totaling £593 6d were issued for payment.
Mr Alexander Miller of Roston extols Rheumo for rapid heel rheumatism relief claiming two to three days cure and wide availability at 25 6d and 48 6d per bottle. Ernest M Sandaton DBCF Fig MG offers optician services for defective eyesight with artificial light and daylight options at Cashal Street Christchurch daily hours.
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