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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 27, 1910
Page
1
At 9 p m a fire started in a sanitary outhouse near the Westland Timber Company's yards on the beach. The blaze spread to mill buildings and timber stacks on one side. The brigade confined the fire to small limits but caused hundreds of pounds in damage.
Bernard Alfred Gifford, a 40 to 60 year old prisoner awaiting trial on theft and house breaking charges, was found hanged in Terrace gaol Wellington. An inquest returned death by own action. He had no NZ relatives, but is believed to have a widow and two Australian children.
An old advertisement warns backache signals kidney weakness and lists ailments like rheumatic pains urinary disorders and diabetes. It urges using Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as a simple cure with testimonials from Mrs Pritchard and references to availability by Poster-N McClellan Co. in Sydney.
The Scotsman article explains sea life abundance beyond shore pools, noting minute planktonic jellyfish Litsia koellikeri in Greenland waters. It details vast populations, drifting bioluminescent patches, and seasonal cycles where cold or nutrient shifts end a season of fruitful reproduction, forcing species to seek new feeding grounds.
The Pastoralists' Review warns that conflicting views on British sheep types in Australia threaten a future jumble. It argues breeders tweak covers and traits, risking loss of purity, and urges stud breeders to enforce strict registration, judging standards, and breeding controls for stud Longwools.
Mr P Maguire after ten years with Hiddowill Collieries Scotland is appointed manager of Mount Somers Coal Company and starts duties on Monday. An Windsor Workhouse inmate accepts a pension but pays guardians 4s weekly keeping 1s for himself. He says he seeks strangers for friendship and friends for advice but relies on relatives for nothing.
London reports on the Bolton colliery disaster with an estimated fifteen hundred dependents of the dead. A widow lost her husband four sons and two nephews while another man lost thirty relatives. One hundred forty three bodies recovered and one hundred rescuers search.
American missionaries report three million persons starving in Kiangsu Ani w China and appeal for one million dollars to relieve the distress from New York on December 25.
English airman Radley won the quick-starting prize at the Los Angeles international meeting held in December.
London reports Grace vanished at sea after his aeroplane geared and turned seaward in hazy weather. Rescue efforts by motorcars in Kent tugs and British warships search the French coast and North Sea while Ostend pilot sightings suggest possible debris or aircraft remains.
Rome reports eight personal crises in Naples on December 25. A cavalry officer killed himself by shooting, a youth suicided after attempting to shoot a jilted girl, three girls swallowed poison, a student hanged himself following exam failure, a sculptor drank acid, and a railway worker leapt before a train after a quarrel with his wife.
The Chicago Western railroad dispute is settled. engine men receive an all round wage advance as part of the agreement.
A Wellington reader Miss It Galloway testifies to Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills easing severe indigestion after a few doses. The ad claims the pills purify blood and treat biliousness constipation headaches liver kidneys and related ailments including female complaints.
The text notes headache relief and improved spirits as evidence of serisa’s benefits. It claims the liver functions normally and digestion improves, presenting Frootoida as a very economical remedy.
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