Market Report Week Ending August 80 Readies Wheat Prices
The London market shows improved wheat enquiry but sales remain scarce as quotations exceed buyers value. Holders remain confident higher rates will follow, with Toscan and Pearl offered at ds 3d to ds 4d and best quality at ds 2d to ds 3d. Oats prices steady at ds to ds 1d per bushel with seeds 8d to dd. A sale of 500 sacks of good cart ton line reported ex store. Oatsheaf chaff demand softer after rains, with 95s per country station for prime heavy oat sheaf chaff and nearby stock levels sufficient to cover next harvest.
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London
Feilure
Ds Ex
Christchurch Grain Market Turns Quiet After Flour Duty Vote
From Christchurch August 30 the local wheat market shows a disquieting reaction to the failed bid to abolish the flour duty. Until the matter is settled no substantial business is reported in grain and produce aside from brisk seeds demand.
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Christchurch
Oie
House of Representatives
Wheat and potatoes prices ease in Timaru market
Uncertainty over Mr Hogg’s proposal to abolish four duties sees Timaru wheat sales small this week. First quality wheat 4s 5d, secondary 8d to 10d on trucks. oats sold for seed, little shipped. Potatoes fall as Tasmanian imports flood North Island. derwents and up to date prices listed on trucks at stations.
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Hogg
M.H.R
Timaru
North Island
Gartons
Canterbury Prosperity Report Highlights Wool and Pastoral Growth
Canterbury Chamber of Commerce notes strong district growth in the year ending 1907 with exports and wool values rising. Merino flocks are urged to avoid sub division of grazing properties as sheep industry outlook remains favorable amid rising demand. Exports to Lyttelton and Timaru show slight declines in local wool shipments, while New Zealand wool clip increases.
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Christchurch
Canterbury Chamber of Commerce
Lyttelton
New Zealand
Chamber
Canterbury
Adrea
Hea
Perjury Plea Upheld in Christchurch Inquest Case
David Baird pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court to perjury for giving false evidence at an inquest into an illegitimate child of which he was the father. He was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Christchurch
David Baird
Supreme Court
Immigration trends and disasters noted in European press
In Ottawa August reports show Ontario welcomed seventy thousand immigrants in 1907 with eighty percent British. Madrid reports a sports office collapse killing ten and injuring eleven during a prize draw. London notes St Pauls Cathedral safety requires periodic subsoil checks. Spain police arrest seven treasure fraud operators netting fourteen thousand pounds in five months. Berlin cites crime rising from 104 to 124 per thousand over twenty five years.
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Canada
Ottawa
Province of
Ontario
The
Daily Chronicle
Germany
Berlin
Archbishop urges clergy against marrying deceased wife's sister
The Archbishop of Canterbury asks clergy to refrain from marrying a deceased wife's sister and to avoid using churches for such ceremonies. He argues clerical discretion includes banns proclamations.
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London
Canterbury
Costly Patents Warn That Risk Follows Patentee Risk
A Christchurch notice cautions inventors about costly patent mistakes. It urges using trained patent agents to avoid missed novel features in specifications and lists Henry Hughes as a leading firm filing over 60 percent of Canterbury's patent work. Free advice available at 183 Treveford Street and branch offices.
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Registrar of Patents
Christchurch
Henry Hughes
Canterbury
Treveford Street
Theirm
Frootoids Promised Cure For Indigestion And Constipation
An advertisement touts Frootoids as a quick relief remedy for indigestion and constipation. It claims rapid improvement in headaches and liver function, urges replacing ordinary aperients, and notes availability through W. G. Hearne in Geelong and Geelong Victoria with postal orders for price.
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W. G. Hearne
Geelong
Victoria
N.Z
Hume's Buildings
Willis Street
Wellington
Impure Blood Cause Cited In Breeza Storekeeper Endorsement
Local Breeza New South Wales storekeeper W. J. Pickering endorses Ayer s Sarsaparilla as purifying and vitalizing blood. His portrait accompanies the claim that the remedy enriches the blood and addresses impure blood linked to illness.
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Ayer
W. J. Pickering
Breeza
N.S. W
Missing Architect W. S. Rigby Found Penniless in Woodville
Hamilton August 30 relatives of architect W S Rigby report he was found in Woodville in a dazed condition, penniless. He disappeared in August with a substantial sum, causing concern among family and colleagues.
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Hamilton
Rigby
Woodville
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