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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 09, 1910
Page
2
A dated ephemeris lists solar risings and bets with daily figures from December 10 to December 20. It includes phases of the moon noting new moon first quarter full moon last quarter and orbital points apogee and perigee with times.
A motorist in Ormondville was ordered to pay 100 pounds damages after continuing to blow his horn for minutes as a trap with two ladies approached. The horn frightened the horse causing a collision with a telegraph pole and injuring one woman. The magistrate, Mr S E McCarthy, found negligence and entered judgment.
Berlin reports reveal the Reichstag approved a bill creating Labour Conciliation Boards and allowed trades union secretaries to join. An Essen dispatch disputes Russian claims about Krupp works at Mariupol as of December 8. Other items note Oberammergau profits, Abdul Hamid’s £900,000 demand, Madeira cholera travel, a royal society member’s son death, lace sale for £59,400, and Emigration Conference calls for better protection of women emigrants.
Paris reports say slave raiders expelled from the Egyptian Soudan resume activity via Tripoli and Borku. Turkish patrols near Bilma and seized rifles at Wadai hint at meddling by hostile elements. Moll’s force suffered heavy losses in a major engagement, highlighting troop shortfalls and vast territorial claims. Maori entertainment planned in Ashburton. Palmerston North hospital seeks £3000 radium fund for cancer treatment with potential government subsidy.
A wet morning kept shoppers away at the Methven yards yesterday reducing turnout. Ashburton auctioneers reported several lots sold including 8 fat ewes at 12s 1d, 20 fat lambs at 1d 7d, 4 pigs at 15s, a bay gelding aged at £4, 3 springers at £5 23 6d, and prices of £7 and £8 for others. Sundries included harness £5 10s, harrows £3 10s, potatoes 16s 6d per sack, and oatsheaf chaff £4 10s per ton.
The Christchurch wool sale opened with 18 119 sales catalogues and a large turnout from Home Continental American and local buyers. Fine wools from front hill stations met demand, while plains wool was earthy due to nor east winds. Merino wools and halfbreds sold well, cross bred varied, and inferior earthier wools sold slowly with some pass ins. Continental buyers led activity, Bradford trade and American purchases noted.
Evening clearing gave way to intermittent heavy showers. Domain station logged 142 points for the fall by 9 am, nearly an inch and a half. Grassland moisture rose over two inches, soil deeply moistened. upper districts, Rakaia, and Hinds saw heavier rain than Ashburton. Flampstead excursionists note light showers at Timaru on Thursday morning followed by bright afternoon.
Nature's Embrocation highlights ROCKE'S eucalyptus oil as a premier Australian product with distinctive branding claiming quality and lineage from Australia.
Advertisement asserts PHOSPHOS strengthens weak children from birth with daily use. Promoted as sold widely in large bottles.
Dispatch notes voter turnout around 78.89 percent, down from January levels, with Liberal majorities shrinking in Scotland and England. Re-elections include Silvester Horne in Coswic and Albert Spicer in Hackney. A Priestley wins Grantham with 33,667 votes. Unopposed returns and new counts from Cork North East and West Clare are reported.
December 8 reports list ward by ward results with Liberal and Unionist tallies. Government supporters total 923 seats as Unionists reach substantial gains across cities like Hull Chester Liverpool and Manchester, though London remains evenly split after 62 seats.
London report notes Earl of Glasgow as former New Zealand governor who supported woman suffrage there. He reportedly wrote to the Countess of Jersey, head of the Anti Suffrage League in England, expressing sympathy.
The Duke of Devonshire supporting the Conservative candidate for Lancaster says no party will have a nine-tenths majority. He supports reform of the Lords but favors a Second Chamber subordinate to the Commons to curb hasty legislation.
A heckler pressed on electors' approval of Home Rule. Asquith said voters know what measures will pass if Liberals succeed. Irish Independent notes satisfaction with the premier's pledge on Home Rule.
President Taft speaking in Washington said nations cannot build a strong military without drill and discipline. He warned that believing an army can be created overnight costs billions and costs lives, in remarks at a statue unveiling honoring Baron von Steuben.
The Great Central railway steamer Blackburn collided with the steamship Rock on a Wednesday night in the North Sea. A farmer reportedly sank in minutes. One lifeboat with 18 crew and seven passengers was rescued, while the other two boats with 34 people endured exposure before rescue. An engineer was killed by a steam pipe explosion.
A bomb exploded again in Chicago’s Italian quarter in a building used by Maestro Giovanni. He has received three Black Hand letters in six weeks, according to the Press Association.
Armed intruders entered the Hotel Woodvard in Tos Angeles early this morning. They beat the clerk, rifled the cash drawer, and escaped with the money.
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