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Ashburton Guardian

Location

Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Date

Aug 08, 1903

Page

3

Paris Letters Appeal for Election Funds Amid Revelations

Paris papers publish letters from former Foreign Minister M. Flotirens appealing for money to cover election expenses. Separate reports: abducted girl Frads Sittel from Magdalen asylum in Berlin. Kishineff massacre trial ongoing. Great Western Railway fire injures groom and burns horses. boiler explosion on cruiser Blake. Wallace Brothers circus train wreck at Durand with nineteen killed and thirty injured.

Paris Matin M. Flotirens Madame Humbert Aucuet Burnix Frads Sittel Magdalen Asylum Berlin Walla Sittel Sr. Primisstre London Great Western Railway Co Lord Falmouth Blake New York Grand Trunk Railway Durand Wisconsin Wallace Brothers

Insurrection in Bulgaria and Turkish Funding Struggles

Despatches from Monastir report the insurrection began two weeks early as band chiefs were unsettled by measures among Balarian villagers who took refuge in the mountains. The Porte cannot meet railway guard demands due to a depleted treasury and, following British diplomatic pressure, will hold Vali Evzeront personally responsible for Kurdish excesses as 600 armed Hunchakists from Russia forced Armenian villagers in the Sasum district to flee.

Constantinople Monastir Porte Armania Valia Vali Evzeront Sasum

Pope accepts congratulations and hopes for universal peace

The Pope replied to congratulations from diplomats and the United Press Association Telegraph praising his election and outlining his desire for welfare of rulers and peoples, peace worldwide, and his modest demeanor. Cardinal Rampolla's Austria backed the Triple Alliance, and Cardinal Moran in Colombo expressed delight at the appointment of Pope Pius X.

Roma Diplomatista Austria Rampolla Moran Colombo Prand Pius X

New Governor General of Australia Named Lord Northcote

London reports Lord Northcote will succeed Lord Tennygon as Governor General of Australia in December. Born 1846, he is the second son of the late Earl of Toddsleigh, served as Exeter MP from 1880 to 1899, and held ministerial posts including Financial Secretary in the War Office and Surveyor General of the Ordnance. He was created a baronet in 1887 and became Governor of Bombay in 1900, later elevated to the peerage as G.C.LE. He is a Freemason and was District Grand Master of Bombay Freemasons in 1901.

London Lord Northcote Lord Tennygon Australia Earl Tddgsleigh Stafford Northgate D'leraeli Exeter Lord Silighury The Ordnance Bombay G.c.le Freemasons of

Pacific Cable Audit Shows Net Expenditure in March

In the House of Commons Mr. Ritchie said the Pacific cable audit at March end shows a net Exchequer expenditure of 91,437 pounds for interest and operating costs over traffic receipts. It excludes sinking fund and the share due from contributing colonies totaling 65,374 pounds.

London House of Commons Ritchie Michael Hicks-Bench Pacific Cable

A and P Association Chooses Shed Site at Showgrounds

A meeting of the A and P Committee at the Showgrounds selects the west side plantation area nearest the central opening for the new shed. Officers propose water race changes, outer slow-prowing trees, and removal of inner trees. right-of-way discussions to be brought to the County Council.

A. and P Messrs Studholme Doherty Taylor Upton Cookson Malligan Denis McKendry Gibson Hishop J. Grigg Malet Body Honifant Choak Reid Jas Small Gilmour Coward Stringfellow Stoddart D. Cameron A. Houston Messrs Gibson Reid and County Council Great South Road

Case of Gross Cruelty to a Bay Child at Magistrate Court

Charles and Alice Hawkins faced the Magistrate's Court on charges of wilfully neglecting seven year old Charles Leonard Sea man found by police sleeping in an outhouse on a bitter cold night at their St Martin's home. The boy slept there for a fortnight amid filth and cold. the mother admitted neglect. The case adjourned to Friday with police instructed to file as indictable offence. The boy is at the Samaritan Home.

Charles Alice Hawkins Charles Leonard Seaman Dwyer St. Martin's Hawkins Samaritan Home

Arcade Horse Sale Proceeds Reported in Arcade

Mr David Thomas hosted his usual sale in Arcade this afternoon. Prices realised included a brown gelding 48 pounds fifty, a bay pony with gig and harness 20 pounds, a light gig 12 pounds, and a bay gelding 6 pounds. A Newtown deputation plans to protest hotel open status and authorities' inaction tonight. The Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association reports a forged postal note case involving a Southland judge.

David Thomas Tur Newtown Newtown Timara Agricultural and Pastoral Association Southland

Seed Packets and Varieties List Exhibit

A historical catalog entry lists numerous plant varieties and cultivars including beet types BEE and Blood Red Nutting, Crimson Dell, Deep Crimson Borecole, Kale dwarf and tall curled, broccoli Adams Harry Carter Champion Veitch Self Protecting Snow Winter White. The note reads like a seed display with names of cultivars and their breeders or sources.

Nutting Harry Carter Veitch Snow

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