22 Feb 1908
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Feb 22, 1908
Page
1
A Dutch manuscript recounts a Hollie preacher near Cambridge North Island delivering a mock sermon from a hollow tree after cannibals demanded a text. He split Malt into moral allegorical literal and theological meanings about drunkenness and warned masters and all to abstain from tippling.
Six applications once required under the Federal Act have been reduced to one. Costs are about a third of the old price. For details contact Henry Hughes' Christchurch office, with patent expert B. Climie ready to advise. The act allows extending state patents to the Commonwealth, and Henry Hughes offers a pamphlet "Advice to Inventors" with guidance and invention lists.
Lord Curzon unveils a mural tablet to Lord Clive in the Merchant Taylors' School great hall. He extols Clive as a master spirit of the English race, great soldier and statesman, who laid the foundations of British India and a civil service noted for integrity and duty.
ABBBB Toot Polish spreads over Goots preserving leather finish, with no evident residue or damage reported. The product claims to protect and enhance surface durability while maintaining material appearance.
Letters from Henry Bretel of Darlinghurst and S Knowles of Ballarat West praise Warner's Safe Cure for kidney and back pain. Bretel reports relief after weeks of suffering and multiple remedies, while Knowles credits the product with curing long standing pains after taking Safe Cure and its concentrate. Both note availability through Warner aul Ga in Melbourne with pricing details.
Week ending February 21 shows large grain lines threshed out of stock and sold off. Local merchants and mills rush buying while outside prices dip. Australia supplies cheaper grain. Dry weather drives steady threshing with most grain already marketed. oats and chaff in short supply and high demand for winter stock feed. Prices quoted for Tuscan, Pearl, Hunters, oats, and chaff reflect the tight market and cautious buying.
Christchurch reports a week of active grain trading with buyers pushing for 4s, growers holding to 4s 2d. Tasman and Hunters varieties sold at 4s 2d. other lots 2000 to 8000 bushels at 4s 1d at country stations. Malting barley demand rises. malts paid. oats and chaff prices discussed. peas and beans appear with Partridge and Prussian samples offered.
Wheat prices in Timaru fell 6s per quarter amid drops in the home market and anticipated Australian flour shipments to New Zealand. Oats trade quiet as Africa and Australia exports alter supply. 60 000 sacks arrive in the Commonwealth and 10 000 tons depart next month. Duns Gartons and Danish oats quoted at 2g for good Timaru deliveries. barley Malting at 4s 6d with steady demand, especially for Cape variety.
Timaru February 21 Hon Mr Hall-Jones returns from England to a cordial reception at the railway station where the Mayor and citizens greet him. The Drill Hall address from the people of Timaru follows, with praise for his restored health from several speakers.
Wellington reports the Wainui reservoir receding at three inches daily and now 29 inches below the by wash. If it falls to three feet water for non domestic use will be cut off. Rain remains distant and forecast unclear.
GEO. I. SANDREY replies to Robert Frizzelle defending the Hampstead Board. He accuses Frizzelle of unwarranted attack, mocks attendance claims, claims unanimous board support for refusing a meeting, and warns Frizzelle to seek popularity with the galleries rather than the pit.
Cardinal Moran and his party including Archbishop Tedwood and Bishops O Connor and Gallagher returned from Rotorua by the evening express. He will dedicate St Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday morning and depart for Sydney on Monday.
The Auckland Farmers Union executive met on February 21 to discuss farm labour issues and the move to affiliate with the Employers Association. The group deferred final decisions to the next Provincial Conference and approved action by the head office to use the Conciliation Board, deeming it not an unbiased tribunal in its present form.
In a Colour Series study Misa Tuker highlights the long role of women in Cambridge education from Saxon abbesses to 19th century benefactors. She notes Cambridge’s shift from noble countesses funding early colleges to the 1867 push for a dedicated women’s college and higher learning for women within the University.
Paris dispatch recounts Maisons-Lafitte police tracing a robbery suspect to four vagrants near a roadside fire in Sartrouville. A tramp with a bank draft for 72 pounds reveals he once led a Loire commune before twenty years on the road, narrating a life of loss and wasteful wealth.
A local advertisement announces ventilated grain stores and farm produce storage at the lowest current rates in Ashburton. It emphasizes low insurance costs for the stores and invites clients seeking safe, affordable storage solutions.
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