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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 18, 1908
Page
2
AS HEMSLEY BURNET, hair specialist, will be at the Somerset Hotel on Saturday, December 19. Full stocks include Pin Curls Transforma tiona Switches and other remedies. Special remedies for weak falling and grey hair.
Sir Joseph Ward told a Wellington pressman a proposed Ashburton No License district brewery had been abandoned. Cabinet approved funding for railway extensions and public works including a Te Awamutu post office alteration and Gisborne postmaster residence. Louis Brennan offered to sell Australian mono rail rights with ten year royalties. Victoria asked by Canberra about adopting terms. Ashburton Guards rifles team did not win, but Sergeant Cambridge earned multiple prizes in Timaru.
The United Christchurch Bowling Club cannot play the engagement against Ashburton, so Ashburton wins by default and takes the Pennant match.
A string of petty crime and civil actions appear. Robert Hunter and another man faced drink charges under prohibition laws with fines. A woman escaped a reformatory then returned to Christchurch. City debt, water works planning, and public works tenders were debated. A Tinwald burglary case led to a guilty plea and Supreme Court reference. Various civil judgments and summonses featured Ratios of money and daily enforcement actions across Canterbury.
Telegraphed forecast reports northerly moderate to strong winds and a falling barometer after ten hours. Canterbury Art Society fixes March 8 as receiving day for the annual exhibition. Gisborne hearing on theft case postponed to December 22. Chatham Islands expedition delayed due to lack of cooperation among philosophical societies. Death of Joseph Haydon in Argentina, formerly a Canterbury farmer. Horace Salter named bandmaster of the Kati-Kati Band. Ashburton High School Cadets competed in rifle match. score not yet published. Record prices for cocksfoot harvest rights and cemetery crop at a public auction in Methven district. County Council discusses impounding stray stock from riverbeds. authorities question jurisdiction and past actions.
A historical notice highlights the Ashburton licensing question and public interest. It also promotes Steve Madden as the preferred caterer for Christmas and New Year treats, listing cakes puddings shortbread and seasonable goods. The notice closes with thanks and season's greetings.
Auckland harbour loan has been largely over subscribed. Professor Gabbatt becomes Canterbury College mathematics professor. The Tasmania blamed for Kirkwall sinking. Territorial Force aims 900000 strong. recruitment voluntary with four-year terms and 15 days annual training. Lord Lithgow statue fund and Dublin carters strike outcomes noted. Actor William Begg wins damages against Edward Collis over London play.
Durban dispatch reports that after a talk between Dinizula and Mr Armstrong, Freeman, clerk to the Yululand Magistrate, overheard Dinizulu urging natives to kill Armstrong. Freeman and Armstrong fled and escaped after the overheard instruction.
December 17 dispatch notes South African Union Convention delegates toured Simonstown naval dock in Capetown and offered praise for a facility capable of housing a Dreadnought, except the Mauretania. The docks cost 21 million pounds.
Stormy scenes led to the resignation of M. Homia kоle as President of the Duma after the government allotted one million roubles to prison employees who were victims of outrages on duty. Social Democrats and Labour delegates accused the government of torture and killings. the Duma approved the funding.
An opposition publication reports that 1691 death sentences have been handed down and 663 executions have occurred within the year. The figures reflect a harsh punitive climate and are presented as current totals.
Admiral Douglas Austin Gamble is appointed naval adviser to Turkey. Mr Crawford from the British Customs service will reorganise the Turkish Customs Department.
The King has forwarded his portrait to Mr Carnegie with a letter praising his generous benevolence toward public works in the Motherland and noting his vigilance against misuse of gifts. The message is dated December 1 from London, received December 18 at 8.6 am.
Constantinople December 17 the Sultan was loudly cheered as he rode in a State coach to open Parliament at St Sophia. Police and military guarded five miles of streets thronged with thousands of provincial and Egyptian residents. Eighty six thousand six hundred exiles have returned since the proclamation of the Constitution.
In Caracas on December 17 rioting and vandalism led to martial law as several people were killed. President Castro's effigy was publicly burned.
The London Education Committee applies to London County Council for ten thousand pounds from the rates to fund meals for underfed children. The request stands even if voluntary subscriptions hold steady.
General Booth has successfully undergone an operation for cataract in London following a press association report received early December 17. The news confirms the recovery likely favoring his public duties.
The annual report shows 189 Rhodes scholars in residence at Oxford including eleven ex scholars remaining for further study or as Fellows and tutors. The Times notes the scholars have gained a respectable but not overwhelming list of distinctions.
The leader of the Foreign Legion mutiny has been captured. Paris papers say the desertion agency HQ is at Cologne, with the agency believed to be run from there.
The House of Lords has passed the Port of London Bill through committee. Reformers and South African papers generally welcome Jord Rosebery's committee recommendations on appointing colonial peers to the Lords.
State Coal Mine bill rejected in Adelaide while New South Wales passes a minimum wage for boys and girls set at 48 weekly Labour party opposed and Premier Wade supports experimental scheme In Santo Island murder case four natives arrested and sent to Vila For trial In Sydney estimates sworn in totaling 54 million with rail and reservoir costs Violent thunderstorm kills cart driver Cahill at Bexley Parliament scene in Adelaide Lucas and Wilson clash Pearling disaster near Perth with fifty dead and £20 000 damage
Mesers Murray MacDonald and other Radicals urge Mr Asquith to issue a new declaration on the two Power standard to curb Welsh Radicals who threaten secession in retaliation for his failure to enforce Welsh disestablishment.
United States Senate directed the Appropriations Committee to consider a suitable course in response to President Roosevelt's message about secret service men and politicians. Some senators called the president's move the most wanton insult ever offered to a Legislature.
Prominent men arrested are sent to jail in Agra Lucknow Bassein and Mandalay. Summary justice shocks Bengal as Dacca leaders who supported sedition seek to assist the Government. Secret societies dissolve revolvers found buried in the Hoogli river mud.
The Ashburton Amateur Cycling and Athletic Club held an inaugural summer evening event at the Domain with a strong turnout. Results include 100 yards final won by M Segers ahead of W Page and S Beauvais, and 880 yards won by S W Moore with Beauvais second.
Thirteen passengers die and thirty are injured after a collision on the Orleans railway near Brive and Limoges. Uncoupled goods train wagons crash down an incline into a passenger train inside a tunnel, carriages catch fire and several passengers are burned alive. Rescue teams face extreme conditions.
A brief football note reports the Wallabies scoring a goal and the Glamorgan League team adding two tries with Trehorber scoring one try in a terse match summary.
New Zealand Cricket Council resolves to inform the Southland Cricket Association of the Federation disqualification of the Southland Caledonian Society. Members who belong to the Society must resign to continue playing cricket.
Ashburton County Council held a special morning meeting with chair man Jali Tambie and members including Morgan Cairns Reid Studholme Friedlander Gates and Jacke. The agenda covered leases near Rangitata concerns over water supply and bridge work with a plan for a sub committee to investigate a canceled lease and a discussion on asphalt on timber bridges.
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