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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 22, 1907
Page
2
By order of Mrs Ledgerwood the goodwill of lots 63 and 56 at Highbank totaling 20 acres is offered for sale. A four room cottage with scullery, lofted stable, chaffhouse and trapshed form the improvements. Suitable as a home or a worker’s residence. Price and terms on application by F Ferriman estate agent.
A 1907 Timaru Herald excerpt condemns government meddling in elections as un democratic. It argues ministers should not influence voters except in crises, urges elected representatives to resist such practices, and warns of electoral bondage and loss of public spirit across New Zealand.
An account describes a 1 acre residential section with a 6 room dwelling and outbuildings, fenced and well situated in a fast-improving area. Also offered is a 4 268 acre farm near Riverside School with subdivided paddocks, 70 acres wheat, 20 oats, plus a 7 room dwelling, stable, chaff-house and grain-shed. Further particulars available from Toni.
Captain Wdwin reports strong northerly winds and rain as Ashburton County Council vacancy follows J T Grigg’s resignation. Two candidates Massie John Studholme and James Small nominated. Band contest committee to be advised by McKenzie and Healey as military judges. Ashburton Guards to face Farmers Co operative Club Friday at the Co op range. Death of long time Christchuch hotel guest Mr John Fox Neensee. Alcorn announces Going Concern sale with £2500 worth drapery and clothing. Wheat districts report backward crops and tender shoots, River conditions poor. Flowerborough considers reverting to annual value rating and improved rates policy debated.
In Wellington on August 29 Mr McLachlan signals weariness of politics and says he will not stand for Selwyn and will contest any constituency. Mr Flatman remains fixed on Ashburton and vows to run there only despite rising candidate numbers.
Wellington August 22 The Minister of Lands notifies Ady Plaman of appointments of William Henry Clement and Donald McDonald to the Arundel Domain Board following resignations of David Pearce and Geo Henry Tuinvik. Approval by Mr Flatman confirmed. gazetting forthcoming. Also notice of local ads for cooking wrig, dates, and raisins with low prices.
The Ashburton Domain weather station logged seven degrees of frost this morning. Heavy rain Monday night brought big snow to Methven and continued Tuesday. Shary frosts followed by bright weather. Snow at Alford Forest reached eight to nine inches. Bushside school saw 1.86 inches of rain in 24 hours with four inches of snow, ten points more fell Tuesday night. Frosts persisted and Wednesday brought fine weather though barometer readings remained unsettled.
At a Christchurch meeting of the North Canterbury branch of the Farmers Union the size of corn sacks was debated. Views favored keeping the current 48 by 26 inch sack, with suggestions to limit weight by legislation to ease handling and stacking.
Handicaps for the Ashburton County Racing Club spring meeting to be held September 11 and 12 close on Saturday at 9 p.m. with secretary Mr A A Pooks.
The Ashburton Trotting Club committees agreed to hold a two day Spring Meeting on November 28 and 29 if permits and track conditions allow with £500 in stakes. The meeting follows the club’s unique status as the only trotting body in the colony yet to stage a two day event and notes rising interest in Ashburton horse breeding with 19 local horses competing at a recent Christchurch meeting.
Notts defeated Middlesex by five wickets to claim the county championship. Notts has won 14 of 15 matches, with one no result, as of this report from London dated August 21.
Thunderstorm halted the test as South Africa trailed England in the first innings with 178, J Smoke top-scored 63 in a 149 partnership, while England’s Hobbs led first-class averages with 910 runs in 25 innings and a high of 168. Ry added 128 and Lilly 42, total noted as £95. Wickets reached five for 149 for South Africa.
On Tuesday Welch of Alsaraa the amateur sculling champion of New Zealand received a cable from R Arnst now in Sydney proposing a £100 side match. Welch asked Arnst for a proposed race date and location.
Six trades listed with players from Carpenters, Bricklayers, Painters and decorators. Players named include Crum, Spring, Andrews, Stills, Oc kershaw, Witegerald, Hertenoon, Porter, Bushell, Jackson, Harris, Bryant, Stock, Canteren, Veel, Whitaker, Davis, McKenzie, Simpson, Johns, Hyde, McDonald, Addis, Wilson, Leitch, Johnston, Grenic, Knox, Donn, Slade, Bonn, Martin, Perkin.
A young man named Onvy Francis Smith, recent arrival from Christchurch, was arrested this afternoon in Dunedin on a breaking and entering charge at Hoge and Co timber merchants. An overcoat and bicycle were stolen. a sock fragment and glove matched to the crime were found, the stolen goods have been recovered, and the accused is said to have confessed.
R BD Johnston of Bervieté Séries offers good second-hand bicycles and other items in perfect order now for quick sale. Fletcher Bros advertise mustard tins and canned goods with marked low prices, including 71b tins of thick pea and muscat raising items for cheap sale.
The House of Lords approved the Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill on a 111 to 79 vote after a debate on August 21. Seventeen bishops joined the minority, with Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Loreburn backing the measure amid claims of lacking popular demand.
House of Commons, in an all night sitting on the Evicted Tenants Bill, rejected several Lords amendments including limits on evictions. Government backed restricting the Act to a three year term for land purchases and tenancy termination, while opposing other changes.
The Hague August 21 The Peace Conference shows real progress toward an obligatory arbitration framework as Britain backs many Portuguese proposals on subjects suitable for arbitration Britain however reserves issues touching extraterritorial rights and domestic legislation.
London dispatch reports at King Edward's invitation Premier Clemenceau will lunch at Marienbad today. The meeting is viewed as a sign of resolve and to discuss the King's recent talks with the Kaiser and the Austrian Emperor, notably on Morocco.
Mademoiselle Juha Cambon daughter of the French ambassador in England has been the guest of Prince and Princess von Bülow at Norderney for several days.
At Berlin August 22 the Stuttgart Conference endorsed admitting trade unions to the congress if they back political action with Socialist parties. Ramsay MacDonald urged referral to the International Bureau for an amicable settlement with the English section. Quelch and Vandervelde discussed conditions and English union representation. Vollmar Taures and Saillant rejected Berve’s anti militarist views.
INSTRUCTIONS YC CONSULS MOROCCO August 21 France Germany and Spain have authorised their consuls at sea to withdraw their countrymen resident there in the event of danger.
Aug 22 report states 800 sharp-shooters and 100 Algerian scouts reinforce General Drude at Casablanca. Milla Hafid, brother of the sultan, is formally proclaimed and reigns in the southern capital. He had shown a tendency toward Europe but tribal pressure may push him toward an opposing policy.
The Standard Oil Trust directors issue a pamphlet insisting on the company’s absolute innocence in a case where they say the verdict was based on hair splitting and the exclusion of evidence that would have proven its lack of guilt.
Several prominent importers of British cattle were arrested in Buenos Aires for conspiring during quarantine to inoculate cattle with Pasteur tuberculin serum to defeat tests, allowing cheaply bought infected cattle to pass inspection.
An old advertisement promotes Wooden gyott Peppermint Cure for bronchial cough. The copy mentions a priced offer, urging readers to try the product as a remedy.
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