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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
2
North Canterbury District advertises private sale of 3 acres subdivided into 18 paddocks with a 6 room dwelling and outbuildings plus a separate 20 acre block with 7 room dwelling and dairy facilities. Both properties are well watered, near a railway station, creamery and fields suitable for crops and grass. Apply to RB Ferguson, Land and Estate Agent.
Subdivided into 15 paddocks, fenced and watered. 170 acres in Onts, 80 in Rape and Grass, 60 acres for turnips, rest dry grass. Includes 10-room dwelling with modern conveniences, stable, grain store and buildings. Dwelling recently erected for £759. Near rail and school, 12 miles from Christchurch.
Property offers 28 acres divided into 9 well fenced paddocks with water. 80 acres in wheat and balance grass with crop at valuation or vendor harvest options. Includes 5 room dwelling hut and shed near railway. Bargain at £12 per acre with easy terms.
A descriptive notice details 38 acres subdivided into 7 pad docks with flat land and a general crop rotation. It lists a class six dwelling, stables, a dairy, and a ute, all in good order, located seven miles from the railway and near a school and post office.
For sale a 116 acre sheep farm featuring 10 pad docks 180 Norer ovts, 60 acres rapa and grass, 100 acres turnips, balance English grass and clover. Includes a 4 room dwelling stable sheep yards and other facilities. Easy terms arranged.
Grazing properties and agricultural farms listed for inquiry. Fall particulars outline inspection arrangements for an application across Ashburton Geraldine and Temuka regions.
The page lists moon phases for December including First Quarter and Full Moon dates with times. It also notes perigee details at apogee and perigee distances, plus scattered almanac figures such as fractions and timings.
The San Francisco route offers the fastest delivery to the United Kingdom with departure from Ashburton on December 26th and arrival in London on January 27th, 1906. The service highlights prompt transatlantic mail via the Pacific route.
At the December wool sales in Sycury buyers showed strong demand with firm late rates. Japanese purchasers were also active, acquiring a good selection of wool.
Napier report notes Lonaton cable stating the frozen meat market is very weak with prices unchanged. GC and DN, along with the Lonaton communication, confirm no price movement despite market softness.
At Addington market today large entries across stock classes with overall attendance above average. Beef prices irregular. fat lambs and sheep declined, pigs dull and store cattle very slow. fat lambs, fat sheep, and beef consignments showed varied demand and prices, export buyers yet to operate.
About 210 cattle yarded with demand stronger for prime lots and higher prices than last week. Fat sheep and lambs sold slowly with declines. butchers dominated trade as supply exceeded demand. fat lambs near last week’s levels while hogget and pig prices weakened.
Dunedin grain market at Dompim December 13 shows weak wheat trading with millers most active. Demand remains for medina and fowl wheat with prime milling prices quoted from 5d to 387d, medium 3d to 3s 4d, best fowl feed 3s 1d to 8s 2d, broken 2s 10d to 3s, sacks extra. Oats prices steady with little exporting. prime milling 2d 2d to 28 8d, good to beat feed 2d 5d to 2s 14d, malium 1s 1d to 2s, sacks extra.
The Western Medical Review cites physicians in several countries endorsing Sanour and Sons Hroanrrrt Extract as superior among eucalyptus preparations. The notice urges rejection of competing products and promotes Sanper any Sons Purw volatine Bycanrer Extance with detailed usage for mouthwash and inhalation, plus internal doses and topical applications.
The note states letters will be published when contributors provide their names as a gesture of good faith. Correspondents are asked to supply identifying details to enable publication.
Canterbury farmers gain from government plan to set up a new experimental farm station near Christ Church with seven stations already in operation in the North Island. The piece highlights the value of agricultural education, calls for rural school instruction, and notes related measures and local notices about stock sales and a Timaru picnic.
A long passenger train carrying Ashburton residents left for Timaru with most coaches full and estimates placing 1200 excursionists aboard. Weather in Timaru could affect Hampstead School Committee’s outlook on the venture, while other local notices include a local option poll matter being referred to a Christchurch law firm and various community reports from Christchurch Presbytery to Addington yards sales.
A reader from Freehold critiques a newspaper leader on land policy. The letter discusses Sir John McKenzie era aims, Massey and Seddon resolutions, Crown tenants, freehold prospects, and opposition to aggressive land sales. The writer supports gradual settlement, compromises, and preserving tenants’ rights while opposing wholesale public sale of estates.
Since hitting the New Zealand market the Royal Standard Pills have been in great demand. The pills may now be obtained from all chemists and druggists in Ashhurtop. No discount tickets required from December 11 to 28 inclusive due to business constraints.
The notice lists store displays in Havelock Street and Dunedin with Mr Mont Baker and Misa Lyall Coombes offering seasonable goods at reduced prices. It notes Santa Claus publicity via Mr Cha3, and that Bedford supporters plan a sovereign purse. Wilful auctioneer Friedlander Bros. will auction Borough Reserve lease at West Street on January 18.
Reported Invercargill vote shows no license carried by a slim margin of three votes over three fifths. Valid votes totaled 4004 for Continuance 1612 for Reduction 2000 and 2419 for No License. No proposal carried. Napier license results show Continuance 9260, Reduction 1982, No License 2180.
A deputation from the Agricultural Committee of the International Exhibition asked the Canterbury A and P Association to extend the show to four days during the Exhibition. They offered a £1000 subsidy if accepted, with conditions that privileges for the Association's members extend to similar bodies nationwide and that medals commemoration prizes be issued. The Association agreed in principle, pending sole control of the funds by the Association.
At a meeting of the A P Association the Experimental Committee reported the government will fund and operate an experimental station at Papanui. Canterbury farmers will host plots on their properties and receive tailored manures. 15 different manures will be tested per plot with future visits for root sampling and results publication.
Official notices list new holders for key posts including Financial Secretary to the Treasury Reginald McKenna Lord Advocate for Scotland Thomas Shaw Attorney-General John Walton Solicitor-General W Robson Secretary of the Admiralty Edwin Robertson Paymaster-General Causton Under-Secretary Herbert Samuel Colonial Office Winston Churchill Indian Office John Ellis War Office Earl of Portsmouth names provided for each office in a formal transmission.
The Admiralty disapproves of the acquittal of the captain of the repair ship Assistance for negligent navigation in Totuga Bay. It blames captains of the battleships Commonwealth Hindustan and Canopus and the craiger Arro gant for neglecting precautions, removes the Commonwealth captain, suspends other officers, and regrets Admiral May's choice of unsafe anchorage.
United press report states the Porta has accepted the Powers terms, ending the incident. No further action expected as the issue is considered closed.
United Prasg Association reports heater homrpoen funds totaling £120000 with £10000 tagged for London and a further £10000 on account. A total £48000 is allocated including £15600 for provincial towns. John Gurns assists in distribution while Prime Minister H Campbell Bannerman receives a deputation from the unemployed.
China proposes to station about 100,000 troops in Shingking Eizin and Amur provinces to expel bandits and preserve sovereignty, reflecting a wide mobilization aimed at securing border regions and restoring order.
George Franses More and Peter Thorn pleaded guilty to shooting a seal while at Waitati. They were fined the minimum £25 each as officials urged stricter protection of seals and stronger measures to deter sport killing.
Advertisers claim Mellor showcases fine footwear at low prices and urges shoppers to buy boots now before holidays. The notice emphasizes quality boots and cheap prices to attract customers to Meller's.
The Colonial Agents General bid farewell to Hon A Lyttelton on leaving office in London. Hyde Park saw processions of unemployed with two leaders meeting Sir C C Bannerman at his residence to urge hardship relief. Five thousand unemployed marched past Bannerman’s residence as sandwiches were provided by sympathetic tradesmen.
All domestic servants coachmen and cabmen at Warsaw have struck in a reform agitation movement sweeping Russia. The strike is linked to the United Prose Association and derailed by paralectria telegraph reports from St Petersburg dated December 13.
Count Witte's bold repressive measures force labour leaders to delay the general strike awaiting a more favorable moment. They prepare for an armed rising while twenty thousand messages await dispatch at the St Petersburg telegraph office. Banks still use messengers to the frontier as troops and Cossacks in Moscow begin compiling garrison grievances.
German residents in Riga have organized a mutual protection regiment. They imported 1,200 Mauser rifles and connected German suburb houses with electric barriers, enabling movement between houses without using the street.
Father Gapon criticizes further revolutionary violence and warns of reaction while noting mass education remains insufficient for emancipation. Report mentions 314 French cartridges labeled Hardware found en route to Finland and sightings of 100000 troops around Tsarskoe Selo.
The Land Commission reports on land tenure and settlement urging evidence shown is ex parte and favoring pastoralists against indiscriminate settlement. It replies to claims by the Farmers and Settlers Association that authorities side with pastoralists at settlers’ expense.
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