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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 09, 1906
Page
2
Advertisement for a surgeon dentist successor to G. F. Dons located on Casa Street Ashburton with night bell at the surgery door.
Ephemeris shows sun rise and set times for August with a sequence of moon phases. It lists full moon on the 6th at 9 30 am and last quarter on the 12th at 2 18 pm, first quarter on the 27th at 12 13 pm, plus perigee and apogee timings.
The next best despatch for the United Kingdom departs Ashburton on August 14 and reaches London on September 15.
Wheat and four afloat for the United Kingdom total 2 675 000 quarters and for the Continent 645 000 quarters. Atlantic shipments total 240 000 quarters. The American visible supply is 41 203 000 bushels.
The C C and D Company cables no price improvement in the frozen meat market. Quotation for Canterbury mutton is 34d with Napier Wellington and North Island at 6d. Lamb first and second quality 43d. Beef hinds 34d and fores 4d.
The new Ministry under Sir Joseph Ward aligns with prior forecasts and blends strong regional representation. Notable shifts include Duncan and Mills replaced by Magor and Millar among others, with policy divides on land and liquor showing a deliberate cross section of views to unify the cabinet and extend tenure.
At yesterday’s Board of Education meeting Mr Rennie proposed a prize of £223 for grasses woods and vegetables to be exhibited at the Christchurch Horticultural Society show and judged by State School children. A correspondent asked for a Board officer to act as judge in Ashburton district school pardons competitions. Geo Reania and Mr Hardy to assist. William Gray notes London weather improved his view of urban life and comments on unemployment in England. Also adverts for Filbert brand butter and Linola polish products from Ashburton agents.
A patchwork of notes covers business and culture from Ashburton. The Ashburton County Brass Band played in Winchmore with a warm reception. mining employers discuss union compulsory preference and political pledges. gas from cocoa nut oil is explored as an illuminant. Canterbury meat industry plans exhibitions of prime lambs. tributes mark ministerial and historic anniversaries. a competition for mineral essays is announced. butter and cheese prospects in market chatter. meat inspection practices and consumer protection are described. local ads promote bicycles and peppermint extract.
The Orchestral Society concert will be held in Oddfellows Hall under Herr Zimmermann tonight. At Oamaru Magistrate’s Court George Williams was fined £6 plus costs for a Licensing Act breach, the first since hotel closures. Also notes on appointments, road board nominations, and various sales and local items including the Mount Sommers Road Board vacancy and a lecture by Frank Bowden.
Frost registered at the Domain in the morning. London says Sir John French may succeed Kitchener in India. Taranaki Native mortality rises with severn weather. Auckland governor’s car broke down but no injuries. A human skull found at Rangitoto Island. Accidental death by blood poisoning from a cat scratch at Poplar. Auckland mayor donates £200 to parks bands. Sperm whale catches limited. others deemed wrong uns. Civil Service classification report near completion. Alexandra named for king’s turbine yacht. A horse bought and sold up to £45 at Taranaki fair. Aghburton pupil defines pioneer as a popular home journal. Timaru advertising pitch for new subscribers. Two suits for one price offered by Craighead and Berryman. Exhibition orders threaten workload.
The Ashburton orderly room hosted a smoke concert and a farewell presentation for Captain Schwartz who leaves Ashburton to lead his Arm's business in Napier. Officers and ex-captains praised his integrity, leadership, and volunteer dedication as the corps contemplates future command.
Hampstead School Committee chaired by W. Thompson with members Mra W. Smith Messia G. Bright I Ferriman J Thomp son R Frizzalle and G W Andrews receives Board of Education notice that the annual examination will start on 1465 inst Received The Master’s report shows 803 on roll with 264 average attendance It was agreed the school close for a fortnight after the examination Accounts totaling £493 were paid Frizzetts and Andrews appointed Visiting Committee for the coming month
At the annual Ashburton Trotting Club meeting on Tuesday night officers were elected for the ensuing season. President Donald McLean re-elected. patrons include Hie Worship the Mayor H. Davis and others. Committee and staff appointed include J. Small, H. Nicoll, J. Rule, W. Bryant, D. MaDonnell as secretary, and D. Friedlander as clerk of scales.
Canterbury beat Wanganui 16 to 8 at the Recreation Ground before a large crowd. Fryer scored two tries for Canterbury, converted by Eraser, who added two penalties. Fraser impressed with place kicking. For Wanganui, Bell and Corby scored tries, Fowler converting one.
An ad style fragment offers Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for various ailments and directs readers to Munner's Zealandia Boot Store in Tancrad Street for boots. It also mentions Mollor's Boots and Shoes, praising durability and low prices for winter wear.
London August 8 inquest into the Handcross Hill motor omnibus disaster found no one criminally responsible. The driver erred in judgment and the vehicle proved unsuitable for country roads. ten passengers died and twenty six were injured as the July 11 London to Brighton omnibus overturned on Handacross Hill after brake failure. Passengers included individuals from Orpington.
The strike at St. Petersburg is only half hearted with some factories resuming work amid uncertain labor action in Russia.
Aug 8 report states a group obtained admission to a ball where court martials are held in Sevastopol and produced eighteen volumes of documents.
An ominous circular reports that the strike in Moscow has collapsed and the Strike Committees of Russia deem a general strike unsuitable. Stolypine issues a circular calling authorities at the next elections to explain the Czar’s wishes concerning the Duma’s character, hinting he has allied with reactionaries seeking a pliant assembly.
Rumours circulate of a new Russian loan as Moscow strike collapses. Reports from St Petersburg say agitation is a government engineered fiasco. In Riga sixty five sailors from a training ship are detained, with Moscow unrest postponed to a harsher autumn phase.
The Cape government makes representation to Lord Elgin Colonial Secretary detailing danger to Cape interests from railway competition involving German and Portuguese territories. The notice, received Aug 9, cites risks to trade, expansion plans, and regional influence in Capetown reporting.
Sir J.B. Fuller, governor of Eastern Bengal and Assam, resigns after failing to meet Indian Government demands and withdrawing from Calcutta University amid agitation over Bengal partition. 30,000 Muslims decry his retirement and blame government for not consulting Muslims, denouncing Hindu agitators and criticizing policy continuity.
In a Daglais speech Mr Keir Hardie rebukes Mr Churchill and warns against vain-glorious threats of retaliation. He says Labour could accept only thirty Commoners and that the assumption would face a severe shock.
United Press reports counterfeit notes totaling 140000 pounds found in the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank vaults. A warrant is issued for chairman Steinland who fled to Canada. his son Theodore is arrested for accepting deposits while knowing the bank insolvent.
Mr John Stevens of Bulle, MP for Manawatu, cites a severe rheumatism attack and two bottles of RHEUMO that nearly cured him. He endorses the remedy as the best he has needed and encourages a fair trial for rheumatism gout sciatica and related ailments. RHEUMO and Woods Great Peppermint Cure are sold at retailers at set prices.
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