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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
2
715 acres in four blocks with 71 acres in Dun’cate and 400 acres in young grass carried by 1100 sheep. Features include an eight room house, stables, yards, and water races. Also 470 acres in Methven district with 160 acres oats 63 acres turnips, 10 paddocks, orchards, and a large woolshed. Prices £9 and £21 per acre. Owner retiring.
Describes 462 acres of highly cultivated land with 190 acres wheat and 35 acres oats, remainder grass. Includes a large 10 room house and suitable outbuildings. Priced at £29 per acre. Folio 57a.
An 876 acre block described as good rough flax country is divided into four paddocks with wire fences. It includes 16 acres of onts and the balance frass and flax with a comfortable whare on the property. Price listed as PRICH-£ 4 per acre. Folio 42b.
Subdivided 262 acres with 10 pad docks water races on each pad dock 125 acres in oats 20 acres turnips 40 acres newly sown grass. House five rooms four stables loft grain shed implement shed sheep yards. About £800 cash required stock and crops at valuation. Folio 45a.
Farm offer of 810 acres with grazing rights to adjoining government section. Yearly rent of £2 for 200 acres. Bush land with totara matai and manuka. Thousands of first class posts. Half swamp cleared and grassed. Small swamp workable with £90 royalties last year. Metal pit on corner may gain value. Price 3s per acre Folio 60s.
Handy Farm offers 900 acres subdivided with 64 acres oats 60 acres turnips good plantation house five rooms scullery stable three stalls eight hooseboxes implements cow shed granary and sheep yards price £16 10s per acre freehold Folio 45b.
Subdivided 448 acre tract near a railway four miles away with good roads. Grows heavy crops of wheat oats and other grain. Buildings include a large granary and a cow shed. Price per acre listed with folio 58b.
Leasehold on 432 acres with six years to run from December first. Goodwill valued at £156, asking £350 including stock. 60 acres first class land with 11 acres wheat acres peas and 3 acres oats. House of five rooms, stables, springs, gorse and wire fencing. Prices £50 and £30 per acre within four miles of school and railway. Folio 53a.
The land is described as in splendid heart, well fenced, and watered by natural springs.
The piece surveys profit sharing as a long standing concept in Europe and the United States, citing the South Metropolitan Gas Company in London as a mature example with thousands of profit sharing workers and rising worker ownership. It notes a Hartlepool shipyard partnership and a Durham colliery as recent developments, then discusses advertising value of local daily papers versus magazines and the primacy of local newspapers in delivering community news and advertisements.
Tor Salm reports from Ashburton that Mr W Penberthy, now departed, instructs a rapid sale of a fine dwelling in Wills Street West near the Domain. The three year old house has six rooms a bathroom pantry gas range and Venetian blinds with a gas rail. it faces Bull Street.
Fragmentary OCR text shows an ad line promising a guaranteed good razor and a strop. Lacking context, no clear brand, price, or venue is readable.
Note lists new address Burnett Street Ashburton Telephore No 56 Night Bell.Mr L Du Lautour Surgeon Dentist attends Methven Branch weekly from p m on Rakala every Tuesday from 4 to ?
Ashburton Guardian will not publish on New Year’s Day. Miss Ashton of Manchester City Council says housekeeping has declined and children are kept at home more, hindering domestic instruction. She urges education authorities to address this, citing the need for good mothers as essential reform. Banks nationwide close January 1 and 2, with state coal depots at Wellington Christchurch and Wanganui. Turnover for the half year ending September 30 shows a notable rise.
Morning reports show the Ashburton rivers clear except the Rakaia, with a dog-and-woman mishap at the station when a cowcatcher struck a dog. Commentary criticizes Hampstead footpath maintenance while noting tar treatments by Borough Council workers.
The management behind Miss Marie Narelle and Miss Jessie McLachlan presents a 40 member band plus a 20 voice chorus and Clan Johnstone dancers. The Kilties Band drew record crowds at Crystal Palace and received four royal commands from King Edward during their London visit. Two seven foot drum majors, sleeping accommodations trouble, and a Asherton stop on January 16, 1969 with two performances are noted.
Commercial market report from Press Association notes December prices in Sydney Melbourne and Adelaide for wheat flour oats maize bran pollard potatoes onions butter cheese bacon and other commodities with unit prices in pounds shillings and pence. The item lists regional quotes without analysis.
Melbourne December 30 Press Association reports Minister for Lands Mr Hunt lost his seat while Minister for Water Supply Mr Swinburne won by six votes. Only new members are new Labour entries. others were incumbents. Growing view is that Sir Thomas Bent must perform a political miracle to keep his ministry.
An advertisement extols Sanders and Sons Eucalyptus Extract as superior and safe due to expert manufacture. It warns against imitators and cites a court-backed claim of its proven merit after 36 years, urging insistence on the genuine product.
A brief agricultural note touts Suttons Favourite and Aberdeen turnips as superior crop varieties with claim of exceptional yield and storage quality under National Mortgage sponsorship.
The massive quake destroys two thirds of Messina, with thousands killed and many towns along the Straits of Messina heavily damaged. Warships rush to aid, fires erupt from gas explosions, prisons collapse and inmates escape, while relief efforts surge across Italy.
Rome reports Messina nearly destroyed by quake. Town Hall Chee and Trinacria Hotel collapsed with staff and 90 visitors lost. The garrison commander and Arch Bishop of Messina among thousands dead. Earlier Calabria quake killed three at Stef naoconi and two at San Gregoria with further damage in Caltanissetta.
The passage surveys Messina Sicily as a historic port city on the Straits of Messina with a 160 000 population noting its harbor and ancient origins dating to 739 B C It details repeated conquests plagues earthquakes and reconstructive efforts and mentions nearby towns Bagnara Palmi Catanzaro Catania San Gregorio and Caltanissetta with populations ranging from a few thousand to about 120 000 along the Calabrian and Sicilian coasts.
A severe snowstorm paralyzes northeast Scotland and northern England causing rail and telegraph outages. Trains are snowbound in Cornwall and the Isle of Man reports a long-remembered blizzard with passengers suffering. A labourer dies frozen at Plumstead Marshes as heavy snow blankets Northern and Central Europe.
The South Australian Sunbeam Society plans to entertain 5000 destitute London children. Under Sir John Kirk’s direction, about one thousand attended at the Agricultural Hall Westminster and another thousand at Walworth, with further events expected.
President Roosevelt asks Canada and Mexico to attend a Washington conference to discuss conserving the natural resources of North America. The invitation signals a regional effort to pool efforts on resource preservation and shared environmental policy.
Vienna dispatch reports Austrian troops at Zelinije Bosnia returned fire from Serb peasants or soldiers along the Drina frontier, killing two aggressors. Istanbul notes Turkey will not reply in writing to Austria's note but will continue parleys with Baron von Aerenthal through the Ottoman ambassador.
The Indian National Congress voted in Madras to elect Dr Arabindo Ghose as president. He praised Lord Morley for constitutional advances and urged gradual self government for India while warning against rapid revolutionary acts. Mohammadan papers criticize reforms as political abandonment of Muslims in favor of Hindus.
The Armenian Bishop Shahlamian has been mysteriously murdered in Constantinople. He was suspected of espionage against the Armenians under the old regime. The report is carried by the Press Association.
The 1907 Departmental Committee report urges retaining current district wage rates for competent workers, rejects strict union-rate substitution, and proposes ways to determine wages including government fixed rates or wage boards. It favors care in contractor selection and suggests a joint departmental committee for coordination.
Sydney reports show the New South Wales Cabinet will soon consider prohibiting pugilistic encounters including last Saturday's event. A separate note from Sydney mentions a banana boycott by Siji shippers over commission disputes with Dunedin agents. Broken Hill unions recognize the lock-out at Proprietary Mine as ongoing and extend to other firms cutting wages. Melbourne cites a sharp drop in rural produce with dairy export value down by £864,000 from 1906.
Fire aboard the Paparoa at St Vincent led to flooding of No 3 hold. The 6563 ton steamer, under Captain Clifford, left Wellington for London in November. cargo from New Zealand included wool butter cheese and meat. The fire was extinguished and the ship set to sail, with significant dairy cargo damaged.
Fragmentary note mentions yellow of great, national fore Gage and early papul at.
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