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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 30, 1910
Page
2
A compact notice outlines risks taken for fire marine accident motor car plate glass mortgagees indemnity and sickness combined with accident insurance. The item records coverage scope and insured parties under standard policy provisions.
The undersigned offers for sale the blacksmith business carried on by Mr Gao Morrison at Tinwald with the freehold shop property house and outbuildings, about 12 acres of land. Mr Morrison retires due to ill health. The business records show a substantial and profitable establishment.
Property listing describes a Gord Homestead near Railway with a large wool shed, 7 horsepower oil engine, 12 shearing machines, three yard sets, 15 000 sheep, 20 horses, 200 head of cattle. Delivery January 1911. Price 16000 pounds.
The article lists moon phases including New Moon and First Quarter with times, plus perigee and apogee references. It also encodes date markers and irregular entries such as BUN Date and January 1 through January 10 listings, suggesting a dated astronomical almanac fragment.
The piece lampoons the reformer as a devout egoist who seeks to reshape others to his image. It argues Nature sustains variety and that the reformer, while tiresome, also provides amusement. The author urges restraint and acceptance within natural limits.
Mr Bates telegraphs variable winds with a forthcoming cool change. At the Magistrate's Court a first offender is fined 58 with 24 hours in jail. another is fined 20s after entering court late. Mr Maguire named manager of Mount Somers Coal Company starts May Day. Mr Wade, ex NSW Premier, travels through Ashburton on a holiday. Sir Joseph Ward and family return to Wellington. Caledonian Society gathering in Invercargill on January 2. Damatn swimming bath improvements progress with a new shelter and fence planned. A Windfall £3000 through inheritance is uncovered for Alfred William Pearpe. Ashburton businesses see a busy season rush, including G H Carson Cycle and Motor Works promoting high-class cycles and accessories.
Itakain and Ashburton rivals reported clear this morning while Rangitata ran colored. Westport Inangahta railway workers receive pay increase to 98 6d per day amid ongoing agitation. A magistrate sternly fines a first offender for drunkenness at the railway stations. Christmas Day 1904 fell on a Sunday. next Sunday Christmas occurs in 1921 due to leap years. A Dunedin cemetery sexton’s suspension is lifted after a probe. Canterbury Croquet Association hosts its first annual tournament. A large compensation claim heads to Auckland courts for boiler scalding injuries aboard ship.
The Ashburton water project advances well as a deep well and twelve 44 inch pipes tap artesian strata. Four pipes opened Thursday released a flood of clear water, assuring ample supply despite a dry season and holidays.
The December 20 report from Timaru notes the Ghess Championship Congress ongoing with round five results. Players Mason Davies Gyles Dunlop Mara Nagle Fox Beck Grierson and Barnes appear, while Mason and Mara’s game adjourned in an even position. The sixth round has begun with matches including Mason versus Mara and Grierson versus Dunlop.
Obituary notices report Mrs Mary Clarke sister of Mrs Pankhurst and Rev Robert Henderson death. Other dispatches note a fatal powder explosion in El Paso injuring five and 50. Sedition arrest of Edward Myling, wrestling champion Henry Gehring victory, and world motor record progress. Duke and Duchess of Connaught visit Sandringham. Westminster Dean appointed. submarines sail to Malta and Gibraltar. recount demanded in Gloucester elections. Joyce denies emigration claims. Gladstone birthday decorates statue. Lloyds losses top £6 million.
Reports from Johannesburg describe deadly clashes at the Cason mine. One man killed and several fatally injured as native workers and others fight. seventy wounded in the latest round of violence.
In St. Petersburg an elder at Peterhoff Lutheran Church accidentally poured a sulfuric acid chromate potash mixture into a chalice during communion. Of thirty two parishioners stricken, three have died and several others are ill.
Inquest into the Hawes railway disaster reveals fire started in the second carriage where wreckage blocked escape. Six of eight cars burnt. sleeping cars lit by electricity, others by gas. Flames appeared ten minutes after collision. driver visibility hindered by Scotch mist. Inquest adjourned to January 19.
The Paris Times correspondent says a small group of deputies backs Somaliland traders and forms a strong economic bloc. France seeks to include arms trade with Jibutai and Nuscat in a broader settlement, while Britain resists concessions. The Times suggests British Gambia may be ceded to a foreign power.
The Belgian steamer Baltique sank in a North Sea collision. Six people were drowned and only scattered survivors reported. The incident occurred as maritime authorities investigated wreckage and maritime safety measures.
The report cites 018 Congregational churches in Britain with 493,583 communicants and 706,041 Sunday school scholars. It lists 419,680 Baptist baptized members and 876,448 Sunday scholars, noting worldwide Baptist churches total 63,048 with 6,715,211 baptized members. The Baptist congregations globally number about twenty million.
Police seize papers in Merountzeff rooms written in Russian and Yiddish showing a widespread robbery scheme. Chemicals and mechanical devices found. Merountzeff posed as an artist and worked nightly. A woman, a middle aged man and two foreigners frequented the house. Gas cylinder traced to burglary sets. Police consider Merountzeff as head of an anarchist plot during Coronation festivities.
Three men and two women remanded at Guildhill in the Houndaditch burglary case. Detectives search for two remaining principals. Letter translations from Stepney open new lines of inquiry in London and on the Continent. Government experts see possible explosive manufacture in bottles but find no evidence of actual production. Police believe the burglary aimed to fund large scale bomb production for export to Russia. A large Thames shipment was seized at St. Petersburg.
Rescue teams recover 273 bodies from the Belton coal mine after a blast near an electric coal cutting machine. Inquests blame accumulated gas and coal dust. calls arise for water dust controls, banning electric cutting where gas is present, and more inspectors.
Melbourne December 29 Acting Premier Mr W M Hughes will urge the Commonwealth to contribute to the Bolton Disaster Panel. The Government has cabled £2000 to the relief fund to aid the cases arising from the disaster.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand on behalf of the Specter received the presidents of the delegations in Vienna. He cited the Emperor's gratification at peaceful outlook abroad and said the navy vote increase was justified given other powers' preparations.
The Council received a silent subscription list from the Col Liery Employees Federation for a testimonial to Peter Bowling and left it on the secretary’s table for potential contributors. A Labour Council motion censuring the Minister of Labour for Christmas Eve shop openings failed. A mail mystery unfolds as a October 95 London mail bag opened in England and re sealed before reaching Australia with over 600 letters for England.
The Dolphin brings word of native attacks on a Rye coast trading post in New Guinea. German explorers report villages burned, troops patrolling, and encounters with a dwarf tribe firing arrows. A nude tribe living in tree huts offered peace offerings.
A fire at 4.48 am in a two storey wooden building on Manners Street, opposite the Royal Oak Hotel, damaged Tiffin Rooms tenants Mrs Lee, YWCA, and Hannah Barsht next door. Water flooded George Winder's ironmongery and top floor stock. Building owned by Mr Martin Kennedy. insurance: limited. Fire brigade confined flames to their premises.
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