25 Feb 1908
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Feb 25, 1908
Page
1
Report highlights increasing shoplifting across shops from drapery to jewellers. It cites bold methods, professional thieves using baskets and umbrellas, and tactics to mislead staff. A Daily Telegraph source notes losses of about £1000 yearly per large firm and describes how teams work in pairs to steal and divert suspicion.
A cable from London dated February 22 reports Canterbury mutton and New Zealand lamb in quiet markets with scarce Canterbury brands and various quotings. Butter shows high prices and weak demand with buyers delaying purchases, while cheese remains firm and stocks tighten as buyers seek limited supplies.
The fifth and final wool sale of the 1907 08 season will be held at Alexandra Hall today starting at 3 p m. The table lists sales by firms and sale order including New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company National Mortgage and Agency Company Dalgety and Company Matson and Company Pyne and Company Farmers Co operative Association with a total of 2020 sales.
Rev. Dr W. J. Long spoke on Wild Animals Life and Death at the 49th annual dinner of the Province of Quebec Fish and Game Protective Association in Montreal. He cited animal intelligence, a suggested sixth sense, and led examples from otters and beavers, noting animals are alive and worthy of protection.
In Corneville an exiled Comte flees France leaving infant Lucienne in care of Gaspard who raises her as Germaine to hoard treasure. The haunted Chateau hosts deceit and a hired crew as clues reveal Germaine’s true lineage and Henri de Corneville’s return to claim the estate and his love. Serpolette’s fortunes shift as revelations unfold.
Forty thousand unionists in San Francisco are unemployed. The Natal Act is declared inoperative regarding the Japanese, with an appeal foreshadowed to the Supreme Court and Privy Council. Campbell-Bannerman’s health updates are reported as steady, while Roosevelt calls for ICC inquiry into railway labor conditions and wage prospects.
Rain fell across Taranaki weather areas with general showers in New Plymouth on Saturday night and Sunday morning and again Monday. Feilding Kimbolton Apiti Rangiwahia reports drenched bush fires and easing drought with ongoing rain needed. Cambridge drought relief reduced supplier payments by seven hundred pounds year on year. Reefton reports rain stopping bush fires and signs drought breaking up.
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