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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 18, 1906
Page
4
The Ashburton Grain Market summary notes no change in the focal wheat market with London cables depressing prices. Wheat quotations remain near flat with a slightly easier tone and limited sales. Feed and short feed oats show small shifts. Danish and other prices quoted with modest activity noted in coastal shipwest demand.
From Our Own Correspondent reports a quiet week with some inquiries from outside mills for Timaru market needs. Prices largely steady with last week while Oste-These have weakened, Gratonas and Danish Te d at 2s and 2 delivered in Timaru. Potatoes show small lots moving along the coast as buyers remain cautious ahead of California shipments.
From our own Correspondent Conmronmen Aug 17 few wheat lots offered in the 1009 markets during the wet period as sellers seek high prices and millers avoid operation. North Island demand shows large supplies secured probably in the South earlier. Local millers report limited flour outlet while wheat stocks remain. Wheat prices hindered by competition from cheaper South supplies. Wet weather firmed chaff and sellers quote higher prices above current quotations.
The inquest into Henry Brandt's death found he died by his own action while temporarily insane after worrying over being called as a witness. The verdict notes no prosecution had been suggested to him and mentions a £28 purchase of stolen skins and horsehair. Also referenced are Ascot week finery spending and local church exhortations.
List of patent applications filed for Letters Patent in the week ending August 11. Names include Lobnitz Scotland, Hawley harness improvement, Gowland sash fastener Christchurch, McAollt rail Wallington, Reid ice skater Toorak, Weston cycle pedal, National Cash Register Daytona, Langton Masterton toilet comb, Kale Palmarston North curtain banging device, Goodall cafaty Christchurch. Balwin Raynard Wellington seek canvassers.
United Press reports from New York and Lennon show a fifteen million pound decline in canned exports from Chicago across seven months with July losing £38,000. Shipping Gazette notes Australian mail steamer area plans, joint ventures by Baardmore, Vickers and Armetrong Whitworth, and Latog firms. Horse sales feature stallion Dandy Dick from J T Cox of New Zealand at seven guineas. Bathurst to Sydney road race attracts 103 acceptors including top cyclists.
Sir Edward Grey rejects the Porte notes without a satisfactory guarantee. Britain and powers discuss the issue. The Times says Turkey refused to extend the Smyrna Ada railway, prioritizing the Baghdad railway, delaying further British company construction until terms with the German scheme are set.
United Press report notes a Golaghat Assam meeting of planting community and native gentlemen adopted a resolution of sympathy with Sir J. B. Feller, Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, over his forced resignation amid opposition by agitators. The resolution condemns government action as unmindful of Europeans loyalists and Mahamme dans.
A Melbourne Sydney advertisement extols Zam-Buk Balm as ideal for very sensitive infant skin. It claims relief from chapping, rashes, and itching, noting that powders worsen discomfort and praising Zam-Buk as soothing and effective for burns, sores, and various skin troubles. It quotes a Sydney trial by Graham Weatherley and mentions pricing and the Zam-Buk Co. in Pitt Street.
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