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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 22, 1909
Page
3
An analysis of balance sheets for a hundred Lancashire mills with eight million spindles shows a loss of £272,072 or percent during the year, yet dividends average 73 percent. Companies wrote forty nine stocks down to nominal figures during boom years.
Mecca reports the Khedive among the pilgrims during one of the era's greatest spectacles at the Prophet's mosque. The event, dated December, drew vast crowds and marked a significant religious observance.
Copenhagen dispatch reports that a university committee found no evidence that Dr. Cook reached the Pole. The documents reviewed for investigation fail to prove the polar journey.
The Church of England Temperance Society has adopted a cradle roll originated in New South Wales. Parents pledge to raise their children as abstainers and the society plans cradle rolls in its six thousand branches.
A massive fire at Arding and Hobbs drapery stores in Clapham during Christmas chaos left four confirmed dead with a fifth corpse later recovered. The blaze gutted thirty plus shops and houses, damaged by collapse of a copper tower and flaming drapery. Damages reach about one million. Rescue efforts halted as ruins were searched.
Brussels reports King Leopold will have a state funeral with royal attendance though he wished for an early morning ceremony in private company. He left 600000 pounds to his children from his father’s estate, while about two million remains to Baroness Vaughan. The Duke of Connaught will attend for King Edward, Kaiser Wilhelm’s forces represented, and Princess Louise arrived. Baroness Vaughan has reached Paris amid journalist crowds and partial interviews. a half mast flag marks the funeral day.
The western miners have resumed work in Sydney and Prime Minister Hughes says Wade’s bill is now his concern. Charges against 15 Colliery Employees’ Association members for incitement are partly withdrawn or postponed until late December.
A blaze originating in the County Council bluegum plantation above Maronen road swept through the area damaging about three to four acres of grass and a fence valued around £15 owned by Mr W T Lill. Firefighters held the fire before reaching a nearby crop. A second fire in a borough reserve behind the Old Cemetery was extinguished quickly. cause unknown.
Reports from Stratford Dunedin and Gore list a drowning of a three year old in a creel near Yoko, a fatal internal injury after a trap capsizing at Highcut, heart disease causing a farm labourer’s death near Riversdale, and a boy in Allenton suffering a severed manger incident with a cream separator.
James Hartigan an elderly Ashburton resident was found dead in a Leeston hut by Mr Boustridge. An inquest led by District Coroner W G Day concluded Hartigan died of heart failure with no signs of violence. £25 in his pocket and other securities noted.
The second wool sale of the season in Timare was held today with 13,367 sales catalogued. Bidding was keen and prices for halbred and cross bred stayed near last sale levels, with good three-quarter bred up about six percent. Medium half bred also gained, and about half the catalogues remain unsold.
Persistent rumours circulated early today of the death of Mr F. E. Baume MP on the way to Auckland but a telegram from Auckland and later a message from Baume himself showed there was no foundation for the story. The Auckland East member was continuing the journey in good health.
The Ashburton Borough School held its Christmas vacation gathering with drill displays and prize allocations. Headmaster G Schneider read the report as Rev JH Bellhouse and Rev EB Whitehouse spoke, prizes awarded for academics crafts and attendance, and afternoon tea concluded the event.
December 22 at the Police Court twenty one cases of sly grog selling and keeping liquor for sale were heard against eleven persons. Ten pleaded guilty and were fined a total £580. One accused disappeared. a warrant issued, but he has reportedly left the colony. Seized liquor confiscated.
The Domain weather station reports 2 PM shade temperature at 89.5 degrees with yesterday at 87. Readers are warned that shade measurements vary by placement beneath verandahs or iron roofs. Today's shade temperature exceeds yesterday at over 92 degrees. Al Bates notes northerly moderate to strong winds with warm humid conditions and a fall in glass readings expected soon.
G McParlane advertises land terms for stocking and torking about 200 acres of wheat and oats. The notice lists owners and initials and invites inquiries from interested buyers or tenants.
Notice states a Christmas poultry sale will be held on Thursday 23rd instant under The Banking Act 1908 terms. It announces special bank holidays on Tuesday 28 December 1909 and Monday 3 January 1910 at listed New Zealand banks. Additional statutory holidays close banks on 5 December 1909 27 December 1909 and 1 January 1910.
The offices of the solicitors will be closed from Friday December 24, 1909 to Thursday January 6, 1910, both days inclusive. G H Buechausn H Orbei R Kennedy Wilding and Acland BE G Crisp.
On Christmas Day 1909 all trains in the Canterbury District will be suspended with exceptions for express services between Christchurch and Invercargill and mail trains between Christchurch and Dunedin. Specific services include Christchurch to Ashburton at 8.10 a.m. and Ashburton to Christchurch at 3.40 p.m. and Timaru to Ashburton at 7.15 a.m. with Ashburton to Timaru at 11.15 a.m. Details appear on posters and handbills.
Mr Dinnie the Police Commissioner will retire, receiving six months' salary as compensation.
New Zealand railways publish holiday services for December 1909 with trains between Ashburton Timaru Springburn and Christchurch. Timetable details show morning departures, afternoon returns, and night services, plus a suspension of goods and live stock traffic on December 27 and 31 and January 1. Posters and handbills will provide filler particulars.
Improvised OCR fragment lists sugar types including brown sugar dark Demerara refined loaf sugar icing sugar castor sugar and milk sugar with unclear quantities and formatting. No coherent event or entities beyond generic sugar varieties.
A compact catalog of fruit syrups and beverages including Raspberry Syrup Lemon Syrup Pineapple Syrup and Brand Lime Juice with per bottle pricing. Also lists Montseratt Lime Juice Fletcher herbal beer extract Kons concentrated ginger beer and various pie fruits with unit amounts and prices.
Advertises Edmonds Baking Powder per tin sixpence and lid per dozen five shillings sixpence and one shilling sixpence Edmonds Custard Powder per dozen five shillings onepence and ten shillings sixpence Edmonds Ege Powder per dozen sixpence and ten shillings sixpence Garland's Custard Powder with several flavours per tin zero
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