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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jan 08, 1909
Page
1
Consignments received at Ashburton and Tinwald stores will be sent to Christchurch or Timaru free of charge except railage. Wool should arrive six days before the sale date for cataloguing. Direct country-station consignments should be made as requested.
World to communicate direct with English manufacturers and dealers across all goods classes. The directory serves as a complete commercial guide in London and its suburbs and lists traders throughout the region.
An assortment of Shakespearean lines presented as maxims including prompts from Timon of Athens Twelfth Night and Hamlet. The text mixes misquoted phrases and partial titles with observations on time ambition and virtue.
Tolstoy outlines rules for a well spent life including patience in suffering, love for enemies, loyalty to truth, and rejection of luxury. He rejects oaths and violent resistance, urges equality and humility, and emphasizes nature, labor, and faith as paths to happiness. Strand Magazine notes his constant reflection on death and imminent change.
Sir Douglas Powell, physician to the Kine, spoke at the West London Hospital opening of the winter postgraduate session. He warned aging involves creeping changes from infancy, noting the brain first shows deficiency and describing optical illusions seen by some elderly people in half light.
An interview with Hiram Percy Maxim reports exhaustive tests of his silencing device for firearms. The device reportedly makes gunfire undetectable to observers at 250 yards, with bullet hiss drowned by shot noise. Maxim plans to fit a silencing mechanism to a rifle, claiming this could revolutionize warfare.
Trance worries over France's naval strength as M Chaumet urges a 40 million sterling boost to build coal defence ships and a decisive battleship fleet. He argues France must invest immediately to rival Germany and prevent being outclassed in coming years.
At Sydney Grammar School Sir Harry Rawson spoke on duty, recounting his brother's mortal wounding near Tel-el-Kebir. A locket concealing only the word Duty illustrated the soldier's commitment, a charge Rawson urged as a lesson for the youths.
An old advertisement note prepared by Dr J C Ayer & Co Lowell for AYER'S SILLS the best laxative offered.
A Leslie's Weekly account details a Hong Kong typhoon's wrecking fury. The narrator describes screaming winds from the north and south-west, bursting doors and shattered glass, improvised defenses, and a night-long struggle to endure until dawn.
A veteran missionary recounts a village scene in Korea where a rooster crow at midnight awakened residents who expected sunrise at dawn. The tale recalls Korea’s hermit-like interior and the reliance on roosters to cue daily life before Western timekeeping reached the region.
An old advertisement claims RHEUMO acts on the blood to remove excess uric acid and cure rheumatism gout lumbago and sciatica. It states the medicine is safe reliable and best cure within a price of 2s 6d and ds fd and notes chemists and stores carry it.
An American scientist contends there is no tuberculosis in sheep or goats, a claim echoed by a U S meat inspection report showing near zero TB in sheep and goats. New Zealand wool and meat producers tout sheep immunity under natural farming conditions amid local pride.
The British Board of Agriculture notes sulphate of ammonia suits light land and calcareous soils mixed below the surface, favors spring application, and aids with potatoes barley and turnips. It should not be top dressed on calcareous soil, nor autumn applied due to volatilization, and is less suited than nitrate of soda for wheat.
Constance Evan Jones argues in Fancies in Prose that letter writing is a dying art. She notes women write more naturally and with flair but fail to reveal heart, often making love letters repetitive and self-centered while men's letters tend to be concise and focused on the beloved poetry rather than the person.
Frederick Towner an 18 year old apprentice and the lone survivor of the brigantine Enterprise recounts his escape after the Derwent rammed the vessel in the North Sea on October 27. He describes being pulled from the water by Derwent crew, receiving aid in the chart-room, and witnessing the captain and four crew members perish as life belts failed to reach them.
An old advertisement urges sufferers of rheumatism sciatica gout and uric acid disorders to try RHEUMO cure and claims it speeds relief and permanency. It notes availability at chemists and stores.
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