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A garbled schedule fragment shows scattered times and dates, including 910 am, 4 29 pm, 66 am, and 60 pm entries, with unclear context and missing event names or locations.
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 18, 1908
Page
2
A garbled schedule fragment shows scattered times and dates, including 910 am, 4 29 pm, 66 am, and 60 pm entries, with unclear context and missing event names or locations.
The piece notes German mines installing shower baths and lockers at pit heads so workers change, bathe, and head home in clean clothes. It highlights opposition among British workers and praise from authorities like Wellington Harbour Board for this efficiency move affecting labor and domestic life.
Real estate notice advertises multiple houses for let in town and suburbs at reasonable prices. Inspection invited.
The announcer relinquishes business to sons J. and H. Smith from August 1, thanking friends and the public for thirty years of support and farmers for fat stock convenience, and requesting continued backing for the new firm.
A. T. Williams Phonograph D Yaler advertises repair service claiming factory-supplied machines lose tone after sea transport. They replace diaphragms and gaskets to restore natural sound and invite owners to bring speakers for service. Also an ad for At Home Tea by Manchester Bros.
Early Monday a hut at Carter's Terrace in Tinwald burned, injuring 84 year old Seymour. He woke to a cat alarm and escaped as the hut was destroyed. A one pound note burned, two sovereigns recovered. Seymour, frail and ill, was cared for by J Miles and later taken to the hospital by Constable Martin.
A special Ashburton County meeting approves a 21 year license for Mount Somers Coal Company to build a tramway on a government road. The council and company agree on indemnity for accidents, with the chair and Councillor Stitt authorized to seal and finalize documents.
Ambassador at Munich I L Cartwright succeeds Sir W Goschen at Vienna. English railways report net revenue rise of over a million in the last half year. Otaki steamer launched on the Clyde. Hedjaz railway reaches Medina from Damascus. Wilhelm Voight released after four years in Berlin prison for municipal funds theft.
Morocco dispatch reports Mulai Hafid's forces were badly defeated near Marrakesh on August 17. About 300 dead and 500 wounded were listed in the casualty tally.
Redzep Pasha, the Turkish Minister of War, died suddenly at his desk in Constantinople on August 17. His death is seen as a severe blow to the government as Osman Nigami Pasha is named to replace him.
A meeting of 3000 Asiatics in Johannesburg burned 400 certificates granted to Indians and Chinese. Mr Gandhi declared he preferred a lifetime in gaol to seeing British Indians treated as serfs.
Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at Swansea, decries any belief that war between Britain and Germany is inevitable. He says Britain, an island, would not risk naval policies inviting invasion and notes no clash of primary interests with Germany. He cites Canada Australia South Africa and India as preserving destinies unaltered by conflict with Germany.
In Carlsbad Mr Lloyd George defends the two power standard as Britain’s defence. He notes difficulty with France and Russia and suggests a potential understanding with Germany to limit future shipbuilding and set ratios for each power.
Reports from Berlin and London debate disarmament timing and naval funding. The Suddeutsche Zeitung hints that early disarmament agitation hampers understanding of naval aims. The Times questions elevating inexperienced politicians above Grey, while The Standard accuses Lloyd George and Churchill of vying to oust Grey. The Telegraph notes a proposed hundred million pound loan to fund the fleet, with cabinet factions split. The Daily News ridicules a naval loan, warning against a navy state and tax rises.
London wired report describes gratuitous mob brutality in Springfield as officials moved suspects by motor car. Rioters wrecked a restaurant, two soldiers were killed and twenty wounded, two innocent Black residents lynched, and Prohibition candidate Claffin was struck. Cavalry charged mobs as rioting subsided.
In a London dispatch the Times urges patience and forbearance between Britain and autonomous colonies as it comments on race problems. It says Australia should not lag behind Canada in pursuing imperial and local reconciliation amid evolving relations.
A playful remark contrasts days for pets with human plans, mentioning Woods' Great Peppermint Cure as indispensable and a lighthearted plan to visit with his wife and mother. The odd phrase gansible appears as a humorous aside.
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