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Ashburton Guardian

Location

Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Date

Dec 31, 1908

Page

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Wheat profits in Cape Colony show variable returns

The article notes wheat cultivation in Cap a Calony yields about 12 bushels per acre with net profit potential. Mr M Jack estimates first year costs at £3 18s per acre, subsequent years at £2 1s, with possible £2 19s profit. oats offer slightly higher per acre returns. It highlights soil fertility, live stock for farmyard manure, and cautious management as keys to success.

Capa Calony Agricultural Journal of Colony M. Jack Jack Cape Colony Cape

Colour Blindness and Its Curious Effects in daily Life

A survey of colour blindness notes that about fifty per thousand men and four per thousand women are affected. It explains how blue yellow and red green deficiencies distort perception, with anecdotes of miscolored clothing, painting mishaps, stamp miscounts, and a Quaker choosing brownish hues. Women reportedly match colours better despite no ocular difference.

Hrett Royal Astronomical Society Srey Post Office

Structure of the Universe and Stellar Density Question

Professor J. C. Kapteyn surveys the Milky Way to test how star density and luminosity vary with distance from the solar system. He asks whether star crowding is uniform across galactic directions and if a universal limit to stellar distribution exists.

Milky Way Strauve Herschel J. C. Kapteyn Royal Institution Struve Cassiopea Pleiades

Mrs William Wallace Seeks Parrawarra Cough Remedy Note

Parrawarra resident Mr William Wallace says he keeps Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at home and it has never failed for coughs. Product offered for sale by Ashburton Drug Company.

William Wallace Parrawarra Roto Hillston N.S.W Chamberlain Ashburton Drug Company

Penny a Word Telegrams for Empire Proposed by Heaton

J Henniker Heaton M P urged penny a word telegrams to end cable monopolies across the empire. He called for world conferences among postmasters general to establish penny rate telegrams in Europe and then with American postal authorities. He cited high current costs, suggesting landlines could supplant cables with far greater capacity and lower costs.

J. Henniker Heaton M.P Royal Colonial Institute London England Europe America Australia Asia

Forest removal in Mauritius does not reduce total rainfall

Studies at the Royal Alfred Observatory show total annual rainfall in Mauritius remains nearly unchanged after deforestation from one third to far less forest cover. The number of rainy days dropped about 30 percent, as tree transpiration previously increased humidity and local afternoon showers. Authorities do not push widespread planting to alter climate.

Mauritius Royal Alfred Oervatory

Carnegie Sees socialism versus individualism in modern debate

The article discusses Mr Carnegie's view in his book Problems of To-Day comparing socialism and individualism. It uses a hare and tortoise metaphor to argue that individualism progresses steadily while socialism lags, with the hare unable to start and the tortoise maintaining a persistent path.

Carnegie

Always Ailing Women Find Relief in Dr Morse Pills

In a Port Chal mers reader letter Mrs W Watson describes long term headaches and fatigue from ill health. She credits Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills with rapid relief from headaches swellings and digestive issues and urges others with similar woes to try the remedy.

W. Watson Constitution Hill Port. Chalmers Morse

Cats Return Home After Short Abduction Near Tooting

Reports describe a cat taken from Newcastle returning two days later to its former residence at the old home. Other items note US mints adopting sunk designs on gold coins, a French study on squinting, Sweden’s tree export and forestry income, Berlin unemployment figures, and a faster tempo for the national anthem per Army Order 281 1908.

Tooting London Newcastle Berlin Greater

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