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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
2
Read as a display of new textiles including cretonies art muslins art serges and a range of home fabrics. The advertisement lists window coverings blinds rollers bed curtains pillows cushions carpets hearth rug linoleums for interior decorating.
Birth announces a son born August 12 to the wife of A Pringle of Ashburton at Dune ain. Death records Bertha Lois Good aged 3 months, daughter of Lli and Fanny Good of Dromore, August 17. Both notices express sorrow.
The article discusses Britain's Finance Bill land taxes including abandoned and undeveloped land duties and regional reforms. It contrasts Lord Avebury's attack with the practical aims of boosting land productivity and public wealth. It also surveys Scandinavian mortality improvements and public health norms, plus local notes on winds, courts, elections, and community events.
At the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society meeting, speakers condemned shooting tern and gulls at the Rakaia river mouth and egg smashing. They planned to urge the Ashburton Society to aid enforcement and prosecute offenders under the Animals Protection Act. Weather notes report 27 points of rain and frost. immigration steamer Carnivall brings 107 immigrants. A resident praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
The London court imposed a 200 year sentence on Veltheim for blackmailing Selly Joel. Gladstone declined to interfere with the judgment. Also noted is the appointment of Sir Matthew Nathan as Secretary of the Post Office succeeding Sir H Babington Smith.
Nationalists clash with a Protestant farewell march in Lurgan. Mobs stone and break windows while police are assaulted. Riot Act is read as baton charges erupt. Twenty-two constables are injured and several have broken jaws and ankles. About thirty civilians wounded.
The Maharajah of Jaipur orders crackdown on sedition preachers, warning subjects to avoid the movement against English rule and promising prosecution and punishment for both public and private sermons.
Pathe Pictures by H Hayward were shown at Oddfellows Hall last evening. Cold wet weather kept attendance low though the program offered scenery and pathos. Highlights include Vulture Hunting Orange Plantation The Streets of Paris The Little Mother King’s Pardon The Way to Happiness Main Law as a Sportsman and audience applause signaled satisfaction.
Constantinople sees a Greek steamship boycott and Greek goods boycott. Ambassadors fear Turko Greek tension as Powers order removal of the Greek flag from the Canea fortress with no Crete resistance.
London August 18 Mr Asquith is well satisfied with progress of the Finants Bill due to the Chairman of Committees winnowing amendments. He will take charge of the Bill when the licensing clause is reached.
Mr Lloyd George told Mr Montgomery that brick clay is a mineral and no exemption is planned for its operation under the Finance Act. The exchange clarifies the scope of mineral definitions and the regime applying to brick clay activities.
The House of Commons met for eighteen hours and did not rise until 8 45 a m. Mr Churchill appeared in slippers pyjamas and an overcoat causing merriment as Opposition protests rose.
Christchurch August 19 The inquest into Mrs Catherine Crosbery s death, reportedly shot by her son, resumed at the Magistrate s Court. Francis Ingram Balinger testified the son cried in distress after the incident at York Street. doctors described a fatal facial wound and a severed artery, with death blamed on hemorrhage. The verdict was death from misadventure.
North Canterbury Education Board reports on Ashburton Technical Classes Association request for a new Technical School building. The Normal School and Technical Committee recommends the Minister grant funds for three rooms on land offered by Ashburton Borough Council, with current High School use to continue for classes not housed in the new rooms. The report was adopted.
Lime for the land has proven a profitable investment whether for grain root crops or pasture. Special terms are offered by Blackburne Smith and Co at 129 Manchester Street Christchurch.
At the Band Contest Committee meeting in Invercargill on August 18 the secretary denied eleven entries from Christchurch. The committee recommended appointing Mr A Wade of Wanganui as judge. Box Children's Hacking Cough at night Woous beat Peppermint Cure priced at 6d both.
In Gisborne on August 18 the Progressive League honored Acting Premier Carroll with a traveling case. The Liberal Association presented a piece of plate, the Irish association a gold pendant shaped like a harp, and the Nautilus Survivors gifted a silver cup for the perilous steamer Nautilus squall incident years ago.
Sir Joseph Ward told a private New Zealand gathering that results from the Defence Conference would justify his trip home. Canada will form a local section of the Imperial General Staff and begin a Canadian navy nucleus with aims for both Pacific and Atlantic, plus expanded dock facilities.
The Standard notes the Defence Conference results show a concerted programme with attention to local requirements and wider interests. It highlights conscript action as the keynote and stresses harmonious cooperation across the United Kingdom and dominions within imperial unity and equality.
The Standard notes optimism that a ship of Waratah size could vanish without wreckage. Paparoa may sight the Waratah. Lunds the owners report about 20 aboard and 100 passengers. Provisions could last two months. The Insiana captain reports doubt about a sighting due to rough seas.
Dispatch notes August 319 at 10 30 a m reporting no wreckage found, the Lands believe the Waratah is still afloat despite the missing vessel.
Teheran reports the ex-Shah’s exit is postponed after it is found his private estates in Azerbaijan are heavily pledged to the Russian Bank for debts from his Crown Prince era. Nationalists fear Persian control would cede estates to Russian agents and propose raising his pension if arrears are liquidated by the government.
Sir Joseph Ward was entertained by Mr Hall-Jones and the staff of the High Commissioner's office at Sam-tcon, at the Hotel Cecil in London.
Australia v Gloucestershire match ended in a draw with eight down for 247 in the second innings. Townsend 120 and Ransford 60 led Gloucestershire while Hartigan, Dennett and Huggins shared key wickets for Australia. Attendance around 1000 spectators.
A London report dated August 18 notes Bardsley denies any request asking him to qualify for the North Hants team. The source records his denial as of the August 18 confirmation.
The Australian Amateur Athletic Association board resolved to require amateur lists from associations, ban pawning trophies, forbid amateurs issuing challenges to pros, allow lapsing of all round championships, plan Australasia cross country every two years at five miles, Tasmania next year and New Zealand in 1918, plus javating events and pole vault hole permission referred to state associations.
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