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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
3
Refuged rower navigated from a dock to reach a spot and helped a diver by tying a rope around the body. The rescuer surfaced weak and bleeding from the ears. Teammates hope the episode does not affect his 100 yd championship bid on December 26. The Life Saving Society will grant a special bravery award to Craig for his plucky conduct.
Ashburton Hospital Board held its annual statutory meeting with Mosers C J Harper presiding in absence of the chair. Members debated chairmanship, by laws, and drainage schemes while approving a new managing committee and noting staff changes and a wage increase request denial.
Professor Fleming reports that two operators sent concurrent messages from St Catherine's to Poole and each receiver printed the correct English and French texts on tape. The test used a single 40 foot aerial wire and showed automatic sorting of signals into different languages at the Poole receivers.
A missive from R. S. Bapex-Powsnt to H J Dixon and the Gottenmore School boys urges duty over ease. The letter links football discipline, school obedience, and service to God, Sovereign, and country as guiding principles for youth preparing to become soldiers and citizens.
Dispatches from London report Col Knox and forces north of Bathulie routed Boer units near Smithfield road with several captures. New Zealand trooper H Yorke died of enteric fever at Kimberley, and Col Settle seized Jazerefontein after skirmishing and a thirty Boer detainee.
The dispatch from The Hague reports Kruger expected to arrive tomorrow and receive a private audience with the Queen. The foreign minister Herr Deteau will not attend the meeting.
In the case before Wray, Esq. Baracaos Boroves Blower was fined to pay costs for riding a bicycle after dark without a light. In the suit Bimpyon v Dyer, Fitzgerald v Sutherland, damages of £27 4s 6d awarded to the plaintiff, £20 damages disallowed after finding the defendant broke the agreement.
The Commission reporting on the Nicaragua Canal favors American ownership. The canal would be larger than proposed, costing 200,546,000 dollars and taking ten years to complete. A section of the Diber embankment collapsed, and Rear Admiral Beaumont, rumored to succeed Admiral Pearson, is in talks with the Admiralty about Australia service in mid December.
Obituary notice from London dated December 5 reports Earl Donotghmore, aged fifty years, as announced by Hely Hutchison. The record notes the death occurred after a long life with undisclosed cause and lists funeral arrangements to follow in a brief public notice.
At 3 am an alarm rang from the railway engine shed. fire crews arrived at a four room cottage on Wton Street Hampstead near Wakanui Road owned by McFelean. No water available, fire fully established before efforts saved only some furniture. Insured for £90 with London Lancashire and Globe. no proof of furniture insurance found.
Daily telegrams report the inquest into Alexander Leith ends with a verdict of accidental death. Harlech Castle with returning troopers sails Sydney to Dunedin direct on the 13th. Stratford notes Premier Hall Jones travels to Whangamomona to survey light railway, returns tomorrow and will be barquetted. Sydney Blaete of Pahiatua charged with improper relations with a girl under sixteen. Wellington hotel staff union forms, now about seventy members.
The old age pensions scheme drafts £50,000 from consolidated revenue for the second half of the financial year. It grants seven shillings and sixpence weekly to those over 65 or permanently disabled. Applicants must have resided twenty years in the colony. Parliament prorogued in Adelaide on December 6.
The dispatch lists wounded and killed from the New Zealand Mounted Rifles at Reitfontein near Pretoria with names such as Lieutenant Sommerville and Captain Creanahin among the injured. Casualty details note abdomen wounds and leg injuries with progress updates from Capetown and Pretoria sources.
Letters from New Zealand farmers praise Bercyns and Benccss Sheep Marking Compounds for economy and reliability. Paterson, McKenzie, Taylor, Elliott, and Ferriman report durable, legible marks, ready use, and no wool damage, with several noting long satisfactory use since 7 years. May 16 to May 22, 1897.
The notice lists cane sugar at 224 per lb or 701 Lag 164 8d, Browns Crystals 3d per lb, Dutchers tea discounts to 1s 10d per lb, 1s 8d per lb tin, or 1s 7d per lb by 10lb tin. Includes Golden Tipped Ceylon Orange Pekoe similar to Dachene.
A compact catalog of pantry items including corned beef mutton turkey tongues and brawn tins. Also featuring kippered herrings tomato sauce sardines Alaska salmon lobster oysters and assorted canned goods with varied prices.
A dense catalog of biscuits and groceries with prices per tin, jar, or bottle. Items include Superb Wine, Vanilla Wine, Garibaldi, Sultanas, Snowflakes, Desert, Water Ginger Nute, and many others. Also listed are Beechame, Siegel's, Pain Killer, Hood's and Ayer's remedies, soaps, and household goods with varied prices.
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