Weather shifts and industry notes from Ashburton Guardian
Weather turns rainy then freezes with six degrees recorded as ice melts on Douaia waters. Gas prices cut by 121 percent after directors meeting. Accommodation Committee lists plans for seven visiting bands for October contest. Sparrows in Timaru yard damage grain cargo. Cooma schools close for teacher shortages. Foresters Court meets with small sick list and a gold medal awarded to a departing member. West Australia reports biting fly threat linked to camels. Maritime and railway modernization plans feature in Melbourne and Hobart reports. Local Druids Lodge initiates four new members and honors a retiring member.
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Banda
Timaru
Herald
Cooma
New South Wales
Foresters’ Court
Bro. T. Kerr
C.R
Belgium
Launceston Examiner
Tas
Hobart
Sports Association
Domain Board
Sports Committee
Australia
British New Guinea
Port Moresby
Cape York
Wilson
Tasmania
Dunedin Star
Germany
Britain
Melbourne Harbour Trust
Victoria Docks
Ashburton
Dova
Kaiapoi
Military Intelligence Department
Wellington
Morton
Auckland
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Otago
Hislop
Canterbury
Luttrell
Arbitration Court
Christchurch
Arbitration
Conciliation Board
Labour Department
Ashburton Guards
Percy
Tucker
McAlister
Davies
New Zealand
Tinwald School
Pridey
J. A. Clothier Furan
Helem
W. Cobb
G. Osborne
W. Carroll
J. Bayliss
Messrs
Osborne and
Helen
A. Hamilton
Wellington Training College
Cloger Settllement Board
Victoria
Dunedin
Messrs Waters, Ritchie and Co
Wairarapa Times
G. B. Ball
Crmining
EH. Stevens
Hawera
Dall
Dawson
Akaroa
Wyndham
W. Stephenson
Gore
Union Steam Ship Company
Aymerie
Largo Law
Kilbride
Ashburton Pensions and Local Notices Highlight 1900s Ashburton
The article lists 164 pensioners in Ashburton drawing £8975 18s yearly plus 82 pensioners paid at country post offices, and notes county totals £6120 between the Rakaia and Rangitata. It also covers stock slaughter at Ashburton abattoir, railway turnip passage for starving cattle, Melbourne Sydney telephones, and various Australasian notices ranging from horse racing to temperance education and infrastructure developments.
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Ashburton
Rakaia
Rangitata
Labour Legislation Discussed by Ramsay MacDonald in Leicester
Ramsay MacDonald addressed the Economic Section of the British Association at Leicester on labour legislation in Australasia. In Antwerp, dockers struck and won a 10d daily raise, later withdrawn. employers then employed 1200 British dockers to avert a repeat of the disruption.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
British Association
Leicester
Australasia
Antwerp
Tragic Angers Poitiers Train Derailment Near Pont de Ce
A derailment on the Angers Poitiers line at Pont de Ce caused the locomotive luggage van and a third class coach with 40 passengers to plunge into the Loire. Seventeen bodies were recovered with fears of many more lost. The crash is blamed on a sinking bridge section bending the rails. victims estimated at about 30.
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Paris
Angers-Poitiers
Loire
Pontde-De
Pontde-Ce
Dismissed constable incites Belfast strike crowd
Constable Barrett, expelled Belfast police leader, addressed about 5000 strikers and looters in London. With no police present in Belfast, he attacked officers, declaring the men would triumph though he urged action during the Boer War era when no military forces were in the country.
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London
Barrett
Belfast
British cruiser sails from Gibraltar to Casablanca
The cruiser Antrim has sailed from Gibraltar for Casablanca. Reports say Sultan's troops defeated the Hackmass tribe with many taken prisoner. The government suffered heavy losses, affecting prospects of Sir Harry MacLean's lease.
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London
Antrim
Gibraltar
Casablanca
Morocco
Harry MacLean
Threat prompts permits for refugees as attacks on cemetery
A French cruiser commander threatened bombardment prompting Casablanca authorities to allow about 200 Europeans and Jews to depart. When tribal groups were barred from harming the refugees they retaliated by desecrating the Christian cemetery and burning the corpses.
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Morocco
Gallilee
Casablanca
Peace Convention Split Over Warship Conversion Rule
At The Hague on August 5 the Committee of Examination, with Britain United States Italy and Japan in the majority, decided against the right of belligerents to convert merchant ships into warships on the high seas. Russia France Germany formed the minority.
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Hague
Britain
United States
Italy
Japan
Russia
France
Germany
Standard Oil Treated as Anti- rebate Violators
The U S District Court in Chicago imposed the maximum penalty for 1462 violations of Elkin’s Anti rebate Law by the Standard Oil Company and Chicago Alton Railway. Judge Landis called the act an abhorrent heresy and stayed execution for 60 days while the company plans an appeal to the Circuit Court. Rockefeller was golfing when told of the decision.
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New York
United States District Court
Chicago
Rockefeller
Canterbury and New Zealand meat and wheat sale notes
Commercial details list frozen meats and lamb categories from Canterbury and North Island with weights and prices. River Plate mutton and beef fore and hindquarters are listed as unchanged with related weights. A South Australian September shipment of wheat sold at 36s per quarter.
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London
Canterbury
North Island
New Zealand
Meat and dairy market summary from London cable
The High Commissioner reports weaker mutton demand with steady beef and firm top butter prices. Canterbury mutton 44d, North Island 83d, lamb active at full prices. Beef hindquarters 33d, forequarters 23d. Butter best quality scarce, prices high. other grades weak. Wool market softens. hides and leather prices down.
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Wellington
Department of Industry and Commerce
London
Canterbury
North Island
New Zealand
Otago Education Board election returns three incumbents
Dunedin August 6 The Otago Education Board elections return the two sitting members Mitchell and Snow. The third member Mr Scott was returned unopposed.
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Dunedin
Otago Education Board
Messrs
Mitchell
Snow
Scott
New York Mob Attacks Spark Police Hunt After Alarming Assaults
The New York mob violence escalates with alleged assaults on girls. Police in plain clothes intensify efforts to locate attackers after two innocent men were seized and a man’s skull fractured.
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Per
Press Association
New York
Mies
Turks Destroy Persian Village in Eastern Persia
From Teheran a report states Turkish forces with artillery entered Persia and destroyed the village of Mavanch near Uremia. They killed 13 men and 60 women and children, mostly Christians, and seized a small camp from which Persians were expelled.
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London
Teheran
Persia
Vmavanch
Uremia
Trouble in Macedonia Captured Doctor Rescued by Turkish Troops
In Constantinople Colonel Elliott, believed wounded at Guredjik, was captured by men who kidnapped Misa Stone in 1901. He was to be moved to the mountains when Turkish forces intervened and freed him. Athens reports Greek officers in Macedonia blamed for killings, while Bulgarians killed sixty Greeks in Salonika and Monastir in May.
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Constantinople
Elliott
Guredjik
Misa Stone
Athens
Macedonia
Salonika
Monastir
Death of Richard James Meade fourth Earl of Clanwilliam
The obituary notes the death of Richard James Meade, the fourth Earl of Clanwilliam, born 1832. He entered the navy in 1845 and served in Baltic operations during the war against Russia, where he was severely wounded. He later held several important naval commands.
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London
Earl of Clanwilliam
Richard James Meade
Baltic
Russia
China
South Australia Defeated by Canada in Wet Ground
Canada beat South Australia 10 to 8 as a very wet ground conditions prevailed. Government statistican estimates sown wheat area at 1,953,000 acres, down from 2,263,000 last season, while oat acreage rises by over 173,000. Heavy floods hit the Musa district with crops inundated and stock drowned. two families sought refuge on an island.
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Young Women’s Christian Association
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Christchurch
Ashburton Abattoir
North Otago
Railway Department
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Invercargill
Melbourne
Brisbane
Adelaide
Sydney
Australia
Messrs James Spicer and Sons
London
International Company
New York
Norway
Cambridge
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Reid
Reid
Carnegie
Western Star
Mir GB. Reid
Orepuki
Waiau
Vorde
Upton Sinclair
Donegal
Connaught
England
Scotland
Ireland
Ste
Salvation Army
Quebec
Canada
Lord Birathcona
McMekenna
North West America
Gisborne Racing Club
Wellington
Leila Garfield
O'Donovan
Porirua
Ofiakune
Ghakune
Taihane News
State Forest Branch
Lands Department
South Island
South Australia
Musa
NSW selector uses deciding vote to drop Queensland players
Brisbane report says under an agreement a NSW selector cast the deciding vote in last night’s Australian team selection. Queensland players were excluded and the team mirrors the side that beat New Zealand on July 17. The Queensland Union regrets the outcome, fearing a possible end to combined NSW Queensland teams.
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Brisbane
New South Wales
Queensland
Australia
New Zealand
Queensland Union
Professionalism Debate Roils Football Circles
Sydney observers debate professionalism in football with supporters claiming it will stay and opponents warning it will ruin the sport. The discussion centers on the shift from amateur ideals to paid play and its implications for the game.
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Sydney
Hodias
New Zealand Rugby Pros Travel to Australia for Tours
The Wellington based professional rugby team plans a six to seven day departure for Australia en route to Wellington and Sydney. Southern players reach Wellington midweek then join locals for a Sydney departure by Friday. Northern players leave Auckland next Monday for Sydney with hopes of a combined NZ presence in Australia. Officials note tight finances but expect gate revenue to cover costs as professional club links expand across Australia and New Zealand into 1909.
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Wellington
Australia
Wagland
Sydney
Alakland
Zealond Rugby Union
Sesulta
Sydneys
New South” Wales
Yorkshire
Sta Hon
Zealarde
England
Ae Vist Tralia
New Zealand
Northern Rugby Union
Ieee “Ee
Nightcaps coal mine disaster prompts inquiry commission
Wellington on August 6 reports the government will appoint a commission to investigate the Nightcaps coal mine disaster of June 21. The panel will include a magistrate and two other members, with the decision pending.
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Wellington
Nightcaps Coalamine
Carter Receives Weekly Compensation in Christchurch Case
At the Arbitration Court in Christchurch on August 6 a carter injured last September won weekly compensation. The court awarded £1 per week from December 2 and will adjust under the act during partial incapacity, with total compensation sought as £3800 from the employer.
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Christchurch
Arbitration, Court Today
Rheumatism Cure Claim Sparks Cautious Interest
A terse health note touts RHEUMO as a cure and urges continued use, claiming it helps even when other treatments failed. The item reflects a promotional tone and refers to patient optimism about relief though details are sparse.
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