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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 13, 1910
Page
2
Risk cover note text notes insurance and indemnity. sale advertisement for a residential property on Burnett Street Ashburton owned by Mr. G. Dale. Includes half an acre neatly fenced and a six room dwelling, described as a desirable home offered at a reasonable price.
Ashburton notes on Navy League visits shaping youth ship programs and calls for organized inland boy exchanges to battleships. Reports on railway board debates, river pollution, bird heads pay, batting records, hospital suspension case, and legal notices accompany a wide range of local items.
Thursday marks the last day to pay land tax without a ten per cent penalty. Spencer reports 60 acres of Algerian oats at Ruapuna yielding about 48 bushels per acre. Briggs recovers from taxi injuries in Christchurch and has resumed duties in Ashburton. Maori ferry faced heavy seas between Wellington and Lyttelton. Buddo promises no racing-year interference, with pacemanship to allocate totalisator permits. Taylor hints at mayoral bid for next year. Union Steam Ship dividend 1s 7d per share with 9d dividend bonus. Scouts to visit Christchurch with 24 members, camping near rifle butts. motor cycle ads urge inspection at G H Carson Cycle and Motor Works Tancred Street.
Thirty nine applications have been received by the Ashburton Borough Council for the running engineer post tied to the water supply scheme. Applicants come from various parts of the dominion. The council met in committee and referred the submissions to the Water Supply Committee for review and a report at a special meeting scheduled for Saturday.
Residents of Mount Somers and surrounds petitioned for a Hackthorne road flag-station. The Minister of Railways replied that gradients would make a siding costly and, three miles from Westerfield with good road access, found no way to authorize expenditure.
An Ashburton audience will hear Hera Stirling Munro and Rev Piri Munro in a popular entertainment at the Oddfellows Hall this evening. Local performers join in with Woaiata poi songs, Maori dances, duets, and a curio mats and weapons display. Admission is one shilling.
An entirely new exhibition of moving pictures is promised for tomorrow night by Hayward's proprietary.
Taylor-Carrington management with John Fuller and Sons present McMahon and Carroll's pictorial deal painstign of the Fells Gang at Odd Fellows Hall Thursday evening. Seats may be booked at H. M Jones's.
Heavy rain swept Canterbury and Christchurch yesterday with 271 points in the thunderstorm. A dairy man, Mr A Cowley of Papanui, was struck by lightning and killed as a cow in his open herd was struck. additional hail and unsettled winds forecast as a low pressure may follow.
United Press dispatches report a fifth death from the Willesden railway disaster in London. Other items note the death of Dr Emil Reich and Mrs French Sheldon, plus submarine moves to the Far East and a church robbery at St George’s Cathedral.
The Methven district recorded scattered rain totals through the current month with several heavy downpours including 0.58 inches in ten minutes at Highbank and a total rainfall of over 2 inches by Monday afternoon. Sunday and Monday mornings were sunny and hot before a mid day thunderstorm.
An Mayfield correspondent reports a morning storm dropping 45 points of rain in half an hour followed by a very heavy afternoon shower. By 7 p.m. 64 more points had fallen, totaling 109 points for the day and 281 points since December 1, with optimistic notes on potential grass and crop benefits if warm weather returns.
Our Kyle correspondent reports that 36 points of rain were registered at 9 o'clock this morning for the preceding twenty four hours.
Mr Strange notes rainfall since the start of the month totals 257 pints in the Riversdale district upper Tinwald with 95 pints falling yesterday afternoon and evening.
A heavy thunderstorm moved through Christchurch and North Canterbury causing lightning strikes on tramway lines and a chimney in Springfield Road. Bricks and roof tiles were dislodged and several houses suffered damage. Light showers followed in Lyttelton and the harbour area after midday clarification.
The Sydney weather bulletin notes rain ceased by 10.6 a.m. on December 18 but warns continued threats. Over three inches have fallen since Saturday night, raising flood concerns and prompting caution.
Severe tremors were recorded by Riverview College seismograph in Sydney on Saturday evening lasting hours. A brilliant meteor over Adelaide was followed by earth tremors. A devastating fire at Nathan's Furniture in Albury gutted the two storey building. one window dresser fled engulfed in flames and four injured. one man feared dead. Postal rules forbid shipping alcohol except as samples. Federal Government accepts a higher foreign tender for land tax paper. Melbourne sees civic welcome for swimmer Frank Beaurepaire. In Perth a Norwegian arrested at Bullfinch for firing a revolver, chained to a log due to no lockup.
Phosphol is described as an emulsion of cod liver oil with hypophosphites, touted as the finest nerve bone tissue and muscle builder known. The claim emphasizes strength and vitality benefits in a product description framing.
Report from St. Petersburg says Gazanet, who killed Plehve, died by his own hand in Zsrautai prison in Siberia after being flogged. The incident follows the assassination and reports detail his actions and conditions in prison.
The Press Association reports Liberal newspapers contend Mr Asquith’s majority is adequate and cite Mr Balfour’s interpretation of his own 1900 majority in a December 18 briefing.
The Earl of Aberdeen writes to a candidate that after years in Ireland and meeting all classes, he is profoundly impressed by the baselessness of fears about Home Rule and its consequences. He notes his long residence and observation as basis for his view.
At Mid Tyrone Mr Redmond urged Catholics to support McGhee, a Protestant Irishman, arguing Home Rule should mean Ireland for the Irish regardless of creed. He stressed allegiance to equality and national self rule beyond sectarian ascendancy.
Rival factions in Mid Cork collided Sunday night as revolvers fired and windows were smashed. Police charged the mob and several on both sides were injured in the unrest.
At Newmarket the Earl of Grewo argued that only peers had proposed changes to Crown privileges, specifically to remove the Crown's power to create new peers. The remark framed the debate as a peer led effort to curb royal prerogatives.
Latest returns show Sir J A Simon leading with 16998 votes. Bellairs of the Unionist party follows with 1 Goodtale. Lambert of the Liberal party gains 6997 while Caley (Unionist) receives 6809.
The Olympia ran ashore at Blight Island Alaska with 106 people aboard. A wireless contact was briefly established but quickly silenced. officials believe all aboard are safe despite the perilous situation.
The Minister of Education announces repeal of all existing industrial legislation and its replacement by a single comprehensive measure. The Wages Board remains but serves the Arbitration Court, and a new disputes bill aims to fix trade wages in government establishments. If needed, multiple Arbitration Courts could be created to handle workload. The Coercion Act would be wiped out.
The conference will consider a plan to cap rent by law with a declared capital value for properties and a maximum rent of five percent plus one percent for depreciation. It also weighs state built housing on easy terms funded by a five million pound loan to reduce rents and help tenants.
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