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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
2
22 acres subdivided into 13 paddocks, wall fenced and watered with 6 room dwelling and dairy facilities. Includes windmill, washhouse, shed, implements, orchard half bearing, two horse stalls, near railway station and school. Ferguson, Land and Estate Agent invites full particulars from RB Y Ferguson.
A 95 acre parcel is divided into 15 pad docks with good fencing and water. It includes 17 acres of oats 80 acres of rape and grassy land 60 acres ready for turnips and the rest in grass. Features a 10 room dwelling with modern conveniences stable grain store and other buildings all in good order near rail and school within 12 miles of Christchurch.
Property encompasses 30 acres of wheat and the rest grass with crop at valuation or vendor harvest option. Nine well fenced paddocks, good fencing and water, close to railway station and school. Features a six room dwelling hut and shed with attractive terms.
Subdivided 880 acres arranged into seven pad docks with well kept down land and grassy first class rotation. Includes rooms, stables, a dairy and living quarters. Located seven miles from the railway, convenient to school and post office.
Property listing describes 116 acres with ten pad docks on a Roa sheep farm. Includes 180 acres oats 69 acres rape and grace 100 sores turning, balance English grasses and clover. Features roomed dwelling stable sheep yards and easy term arrangements.
An itemized list outlines sections and dwellings managed by OWN Sections including Ashburton, Geradine, Emuka, and Grezing Properties with farm areas. The document notes full particulars and arrangements made to inspect an application.
The Ashburton Guardian will not publish on Christmas Day and Boxing Day marking a holiday break. No edition will be issued on the 33rd and 26th inst.
A brisk cattle sale Wednesday saw strong prices across the board while sheep yarding was small and prices fell. Fat cattle ranged to £7 with several lots around £6 15s, and forward stores near £6. A spread of pigs and sheep prices followed, including fat ewes and wethers at varied shorn and woolled rates.
Local items report postal river conditions, land purchases, school events, and public notices. Community notices include a boxing day match squad, essay prizes, and Oddfellows Hall events with Pearce and Ford. Also ads and letters on licensing and town commerce.
The Ashburton Borough School held its annual prize distribution in St Stephen's schoolroom with heavy pupil attendance. Mayor H Davis delivered addresses, prizes were awarded across many standards, and a cadet corps and future classes were discussed for the new building and year ahead.
A sitting of the Old Age Pension Court this morning granted a small number of renewals. Weather notes report strange winds turning gale like from the northwest and west with rain probable and unusually cold conditions.
The Druids Lodge plans a December 23 meeting. County Council invites tenders for water race near Akala. John Orr and Co. handle new potatoes from New Plymouth. Tomorrow Arcade sale by D Thomas. H Stephenson Christmas sale of poultry toys. Ashburton band to hold an open air concert in Baring Square weather permitting. Canterbury Hall purchase poll proposed. Chratcharch Leslie Champ of Opawa School praised for perfect attendance. Wm Anderson saddler advertises stock for holiday season. Ashburton solicitors close offices December 25 to January 2. Smith of Los Angeles federation sails from Sydney amid memory loss. A reader complains incandescence burner replacements slow in public reading room.
The Baptist Schoolroom filled for a tribute to Ada Gates longtime church organist. Rev W E Salter chaired as gold watch gifts were presented by trustees and ministers. The event included musical items, speeches by T A Gates and others, and refreshments.
A correspondence note states that the writers' opinions are their own and not the newspaper’s responsibility. It signals that reader letters reflect individual viewpoints rather than editorial positions. The policy clarifies stance on opinion content and accountability.
Christchurch housemaids embrace Painoi Finid method claiming a cupful of white elathra cleans thoroughly with no rubbing. Clothes last longer and washboard use is reduced, as Prime Fluid supposedly handles the washing.
At Allenton Side School a prize distribution ceremony concluded the term. Chairmen Mr W J Silcock and Mr W L Satter spoke to pupils and parents, praising Mistress Burr's work amid a favorable inspector’s report. Prizes went to Standard 2 and 3 for progress and attendance, with infants receiving picture books.
The breaking up ceremony at the High School was attended by the Mayor H. Davis and Mayoress, Rev. E. White presiding, and guests including John McLachlan MAB Andrew Orr Sohn Davison and RB W England. Enrollment was 111 with 42 new survivors. term attendance 99 92 and 90. Two National scholarships and two North Canterbury Education Board scholarships were awarded along with twelve Board of Governors scholars receiving free education. Attar praised pupil behavior and the school’s work.
Hampstead held a bright end-of-year prize day on the school playground. Cadet displays and swimming awards delighted parents as speeches urged continuing study. certificates and merit awards were distributed across Standard VI to II and pupil groups.
The Kokumine reports a secret clause granting Japan benefits beyond the formal treaty and mentions France's response with six new battleships amid rising naval spending. In Birmingham, John Faeney leaves 250000 to Birmingham Art Gallery 220000 to Birmingham University and 19000 to charities.
United Press detail describes clashes at Takkam where troops faced wire entanglements and rebels. Military reinforcements bombarded the town as civilians fled in darkness, many killed or wounded, including women and children, amid chaos and plunder.
A conference of workmen delegates railway workers and revolutionary parties urges a demisratia republic. Twenty two railways join the strike as newspapers suspend nationwide. Moscow declares a general strike with railways radiating outward. The Railway Union plans to run trains for Manchurian army repatriation and grain transport. Workers seize printing works and a factory to proclaim proletariat rule amid disturbances.
Reports say Polish Socialist newspapers closed and editors arrested in Waresw while Nikolaiov sees two infantry regiments mutiny and clash. Cavalry patrols and police guard stations as rail traffic teeters. Telegraph operators push for demands and Lettish revolutionaries mass with fortified positions.
From St Petersburg a telegraph reports Count Witte threatening to hang any revolutionary in the city while an appeal to troops circulates. In Moscow a strike exemptions affect waterworks and provision departments. The Times in Constantinople notes growing pressure for the Sultan to deploy a corps to quell massacres in the Caucasus amid Russian inaction.
A wholesale peasant rising in the Baltic provinces is led by Maxime, with towns villages and chateaux seized and run by a revolutionary executive. Six German nobles aiding a militia were arrested. Cossacks fired Tomsk barracks and massacred 120 mutineers at Vladivostok as Russia protests German warship movements amid 14 000 German subjects in Riga district.
The Prince and Princess of Wales arrived in Givslori with a spectacular state entry. An escort of 36 elephants led the procession, with several howdahs fashioned from beaten gold.
A man named T Me Millan was struck by a returning Springfield train after alighting at Lockhurn on December 22. He fell between the platform and carriage, suffered severe leg injuries and head trauma, and died at Obrietchanah Hospital around nine o'clock. A patient named Webster from Rakasia, admitted December 6 with two lacerated fingers, died last night from tetanus.
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