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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 09, 1901
Page
2
The ad lists prices for child and men boots including 23rd Girle straps and walking shop footwear. It touts a sale on various colors and styles with emphasis on value and easy fit, suggesting a local bargain retail page from Janberbury.
The record lists lunar phases and specific times for the night, including new moon at 3 920 am, apogee at 1300 m, full moon at 25 11 46pm, and other quarter and fall moon moments with given hours. It appears as a fragmented observational log of celestial events and timings.
Reports list hours and weights for dredging vessels from Pactolus to Trafalgar. Entries include Gragastone Junction Royal, Leviathan, Reeves' Proprietary, North Beach, Grey River, and Golden Gate among others with varied tonnages and dates.
Mr Hi Stephenson reports a fair attendance at his weekly sale on Saturday with a large entry of pigs fowl and related stock. Prices realized include pigs weaners 49 6d to Fi Gi stores 7a to 10a porkers 123 to 158 fowls 1s 6d to 2a 6d roosters up to 3a 64 for roostare ducks 3 to 396d cows a springer at 27 10s potatoes slow to sell.
Ashburton Guardian discusses open air treatment for consumption, noting Naseby as a climate aid and a proposed sanatorium in the colony. Dr Stephenson's Dunedin hospital reports cures in advanced cases, with cold, clean air, generous diet, and outdoor activity as core, while warning against turning the islands into a giant hospital.
Product description claims soothing effects for babies reducing fever and preventing rashes. Premium health aid marketed with claims of gentle relief and fever control.
Various updates on shipping wheat sale, weather, and local events. Reports include a London telegram on a Blenheim cargo sold for 2835 per quarter, Tinwald Racing Club plans for January 13 1902, and notices on new bicycles and gear from merchants in Christchurch and Temuka.
MrD Mahovoy Cela's Terrace Timaru offers 404 serea with house stables granary at Bangitate and 260 acres with 400 acres range in perpetuity. Also bicycles priced in America at 16 to 18 dollars. Henry Stephenson to auction furniture from Mr James Esher's warehouse tomorrow and Thursday at 7 o'clock as owner heads north.
The Wakanui Road Board held its usual meeting with full attendance. Reports cover land revenue allotments for Winter's Road, fence repairs at Reserve 1119, and ongoing egg and bird head payments by nearby boards. Contractors' harrowing and grading issues are noted, with bids on Winter's road discussed and the board authorizing adjustments and supervision.
United Press Association notes discontent over Postmaster General agreeing to resoperate with the National Telephone Company without Parliament approval. The deal could raise customer rates until 1911 when the Post Office may buy the company. Also reported are Standard Oil buying Shell Transport to monopolize oil in Africa Borneo and the East Indies, and other international items from the same period.
Reports from Manchester Paris and London describe Boer and British actions in South Africa. Includes German and Australian views on the war, troop movements, and a casualty note at Brakenslaagte. Also notes a Chamberlain cholera remedy advertisement and medical sales.
A government party member fell through the Ottawa River and died along with the daughter of the Minister of Railways. Mr Harper, Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour, also perished in the incident.
United Press reports that in a libel suit filed by Wernher Bell and Company against MP AB Markham for remarks in the House on March 19, the court struck out Markham’s plea of justification ruling the allegations of political profligacy would unfairly prejudice the mining firm.
Mr Mills states that in England he arranged contracts for two steamers for the Union Company one 2500 ton for Intercolonial trade and one 8500 ton for New Zealand Calcutta trade. He hopes to place Vancouver area ships on better lines as the Union Company plans to develop Australian Canadian trade including sending a Canadian Pacific Railway passenger agent to Australia with Sydney as headquarters.
A press correspondent notes most MPs accepted the £69 quarterly salary rise, with Hutcheson and Atkinson allegedly among the two MPs who declined and refunded the money. The report from December 7 also cites a Liberal agitation in Cook County protesting salary increases before a public referendum.
The match began yesterday with McLaren absent due to a chill. England posted 157 runs in their first innings with Tyldesley 97 Quaife 38 Jessep 49 Gunn 44 McGahey 48 Garnett 81 out. Newcastle stood at 86 for four with Gogne 29 Capp not out 30.
The Australian side for the flat test match includes J Darling Clem Hil K Jones from South Australia H Trumble C McLeod F Laver from Victoria MA Nobie F V Kelly V Trumper W Howell S Gregory from New South Wales with L Poidevin as twelfth man for New South Wales.
The well known local figure Douglas Gordon died yesterday in Porirua from pleurisy and pneumonia. He was a familiar face in the United Presa Association scene and his loss is noted by friends and colleagues.
The list names acceptances for the Dapubibeersh Racing Club Summer Meetings. Entrants include King Stork Stepdancer Loch Lay Jeb Furious Zab Gledisia Tat Tib Watde Natalie Tet dib Winosok Hanpicar and many others across five furlong to one mile plus distances. Key runners include Strathcairn Hoku Marina Nance O Neil Sistine and Viotta Warbeck with weights ranging 6st to 26:40 and varying ages.
The Ashburton County Stakes remaining entries after forfeits are announced. Notables include Sir George Clifford with Glenogla Oh f Aberlow and Golden Vein ck, Percelet with Wirson’s, Rosemere with J B and Rold’a, Bombardo with Gates, Warbeck II Chiara, Menghikoff, Cruciform, Royal Artillery, Merry Maker, Knight’s, Pyawat, Ballag, Furious, Pacama and others. Listing details refer to owners and horse names in the post-fire withdrawal update.
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