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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 15, 1907
Page
2
The property lists multiple lots and acres with precise measurements: Lot 20 21 and 38 perches, Lot 19 acres 3 roods 30 perches, one third of total 18 acres 6 roods 24 perches in Alg. 2 acres 12 perches. Sub-divisible, fenced, well located on Graham's Road River Road and Terrace Road. Prospects strong for subdivision with frontage and value.
Elizabeth Maginness aged 66 widow of William Henry Maginness died August 14 at her residence The Grange Lyndhurst.
The August 15 1907 issue discusses Dr Hay’s annual report as Inspector-General of Hospitals a key state document. It notes concerns over insanity and the link to marriages and urges cautious reform reflecting New Zealand political sentiment.
The Ashburton Board of Education accepted Rev G. B. Inglis's resignation and planned to fill the seat at the next meeting. Reports note Arbitration Court actions affecting farm labour, upcoming changes in staffing at local schools, and comments on South Island land and rainfall improving farming prospects.
The Queen and Princess of Victoria stay at Balmoral before a planned visit to Denmark. In other news Mr B J Griffith mp Anglesey is named recorder of Birkerhead. The Kaiser and Prince Bulow to meet King Edward at Wilhelmshoe. Esperanto Congress in Cambridge draws 80 nationalities. Consols stand 82. An Armenian extremist group’s cellar in New York hides bombs daggers and poisons.
In the House of Commons Mr Winston Churchill introduced the Transvaal Guarantee Loan Bill. In the Lords Lord Rosebery opposed the Scottish Small Landowners Bill saying he objected to the Irish agrarian system. Lord Balfour of Burleigh proposed an amendment equivalent to rejecting the Bill amid a report stage on the English Small Holdings Bill with a 217 to 84 vote.
Ashburton Second-Class Land Contest Committee met in the Borough Council offices with Mayor H Davis in the chair. New judges were confirmed, dates shifted to October 8 9, and Ashburton Retailers' Association asked to close on both days. Arrangements included excursions to Lyttelton and Waimate, tent housing, catering, massed bands display, and a memorial of routines for the event.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman says the House will be provided with facilities to discuss and advance the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill. He notes government cooperation and a smooth parliamentary timetable for consideration.
Report says priests in Belfast joined magistrates in bearing responsibility for maintaining peace as police duties were assumed by clergy and magistrates.
The rioters’ assaults on police at Fali’s road mirrored attacks on those defending alleged blackleg cartels. Orangemen and Unionists in Belfast urged supporters to refrain from statements that could spark disorder.
The Lord Mayor of Belfast received a large Catholic deputation and decided not to send troops unless rioting resumes. Priests urged calm while MP Mr J Devlin and Mr Larkin spoke to the crowd and urged homes.
The Faust Operascope Company staged a rich Ashburton program at Cdkd rellons Hall last night. A Russian Baltic Fleet mutiny scene and an Odessa bombardment slide opened the program, followed by a Sherlock Holmes film on a millionaire’s daughter kidnapping and a long Goethe Faust play ending with Marguerite’s death and Faust’s fiery vanishing. The film and pictures impressed with vivid color and smooth projection. The audience applauded loudly and the management earned praise for a top class entertainment. Additional views of Rotorua and a test football match in Australia were shown, with Miss Fisher and Myr Wilson delivering popular humorous sketches and songs. The lineup will rotate next week except for the football picture, with Miss Fisher performing Killarney illustrated.
Military reports describe Berkshire Regiment pickets under pressure during a weekend riot as women and children formed the mob while men pelted with stones. Dragoons faced stoning and street obstruction with lamps extinguished and wire across roads. Seven rounds were fired as troops defended the line amid nationalist unrest.
The Berliner Tageblatt and Komische Zeitung publish Casablanca telegrams accusing French officers of aggression in the first affray and say French troops fled but were saved by a Spanish detachment. The telegrams disturb France by Germany not intervening in Morocco.
The Mediono tribe, returning home with Casablanca loot, faced an attack by rival tribes. A stubborn multi hour fight ensued as combatants clashed, delaying their journey and risking the loot.
In Durban on August 14 the Natal Assembly concurred with Cape resolutions toward federation. In Cape Town the Assembly read a third time a bill to boost South African meat consumption and stop cold storage firms from throttling competition.
In Paris on August 14 Mrs Goold told the examining magistrate she saw her husband kill Madame Levin with an Indian knife. She entered the room to find Levin dead and her husband bloodied, and he asked for help to avert suspicion. He was too drunk to begin dismembering the body and did so the next day. She could not explain the motive.
Goold tells magistrate he killed Mrs Levin after she asked for 600 francs and a further 500 for her banker. He admits a single stabbing in a fit of rage fueled by drink, then dismembered the body and hid the parts in a trunk and valise. His wife did not participate and robbery was not the motive.
Paris dispatch notes that after the magistrate left the prison Goold allegedly hanged himself. The Marseilles press questions Goold's claimed ample means and says the motive was not suicide. Authorities and papers remain divided on the death.
Ottawa reports the telegraphists strike spreading to Canada with strikers claiming 95 percent of U S telegraphists will be out on Monday.
The steamer Kawatiri was wrecked at Macquarie Harbour near the Grafton site. Seven people drowned including the stewardess Miss Findnett. five passengers are reported drowned: Mrs Hooper and two children plus two other children. The remaining passengers and crew reached Strahan.
Corrected roll of survivors and victims from the Kawatiri disaster. Mrs Hooner and her two children, stewardess Misa Hadnett, and two more children in arms are named among those aboard. Seventeen were still aboard when rescue began, aided by a six-man lifeboat after storms drove back vessels Kathleen Nellie and Mahinapua.
At Lugart on August 15 the first boat carrying women and children reached the breakwater when two crew foreigners sprang ashore and helped themselves. Mrs Sears Hooper, wife of a lighthouse assistant, and her children drowned within sight of home while Mrs Hast was badly bruised. The stewardess Mrs Hodnett, long a veteran of Melbourne and Tasman ports, survived.
Hobart reports a brave rescue of Kawatiri crew members left aboard after an adverse voyage. Six lifeboatmen trained for the dangerous attempt, battled mountainous seas, and, after repeated failures, finally reached the steamer, saving lives amid a long and terrible struggle.
Melbourne reports the Press denounces attempts to raise members’ allowances without country sanction. The tariff impact on butter manufacturers is estimated to use New Zealand pine costing about £10,000 per year.
The Coventry Chamber of Commerce will interview Mr Lloyd George about the Australian tariff. They argue the tariff amounts to excluding British cycles and aim to address the issue with the British government.
Sydney dispatch reports the Marylebone Club cancelled Arnold's invitation after no reply. Perrin will be invited. The Board of Control secretary is alarmed at prominent cricketers refusing to join the English team and hints the position may be reviewed due to liabilities.
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