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Ashburton Guardian

Location

Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Date

Jan 18, 1913

Page

4

Daily Memoranda Auction and Church Services

Tuesday stock sale at Ashburton Yards listed with meetings amusements and theatre showings at Theatre Royal Fuller's Pictures His Majesty's Hayward's Pictures and Sunday church services across St Stephen's Baring Square St Andrew's Primitive Methodist Baptist Church of Christ Salvation Army Tancred Street Hall and Borough Council 7 30 pm

Theatre Royal Fuller’s His Bunday's St.Stephen’s Baring Square St. Andrew's Church of Christ Faller His Majesty’s Theatre Hayward’s

Suffragette Truce Amid Parliament Frustrations

A cable reports militant suffragists calling a truce pending the Franchise Bill. The piece traces Pankhurst, Lansbury, and others reacting to pillar box outrages while calling for restraint as debate proceeds in Parliament.

England Pankhurst Lansbury Mra Pankhurst Errant Women’s Suffrage Melbourne London Filson Young

Mass Movement Voices for True Truce and Rights

The passage urges a real truce to end threats of invading the House of Commons with dermagants and hunting the Prime Minister and Churchill. It asserts that women’s enfranchisement will advance by logic and justice, condemning violence as unjustified and hysterical.

House of Commons Churchill

Christchurch Meeting Forms Overseas Club Branch

Christchurch citizens met to form an Overseas Club branch with addresses by Mr Evelyn Wretch and Miss Wrench. The town of Rekaia is quiet while farm work and harvest lessen town life. Reports from New Plymouth Harbour show rising revenue and a £7360 profit on the working account despite Wharf costs.

Christchurch Overseas Club Evelyn Wretch the League Miss Wrench Rekaia New Plymouth Buara New Zealand Producers’ Association Wellington West of England London W. D. Lysnar New Zealand Myr Lysnar Dominion Press Association Timare Caroline Bay Association Royal Lifesaving Society

Massey Visit May Open 10000 Acres North Auckland

Reports say Mr Massey’s North Auckland visit could open about 10 000 acres for settlement. Other items note Harold Charles Phillips guilty on three false pretence and forgery charges in Dunedin Police Court, and various railway delays, market prices and local happenings including thefts, land domain issues, and a clearance sale offer at Br D Johnston’s shop with cut prices on bicycles and fishing gear.

Dunedin Harold Charles Phillips

Ashburton Visitors and Dignitaries Travel Log

The Ashburton scene features MPs officials and clergy in transit. Mr Nosworthy and Mr Sharplin arrived and departed. Chinese Consul-General Kwei Chih appointed. Postmaster General Frazer and NSW Speaker Henry Willis notably traveled via Ashburton and Wellington. The Premier visited Thames with tours of drainage works ahead of Hamilton.

Kwei Chih London New Zealand The Thames Havraki Plains Hamilton

Ford Touring Car Price Rises Amid High Demand

The Ford Touring Car price climbs to £206 as a newer class car is produced, deliveries grow hard to obtain, and the price is said to have been cut slightly too fine. Only two of six Ford cars in February shipments are available. immediate orders are advised. Ashburton agent notes large Henry Ford volume due to robust construction and low per car profits.

Henry Ford Ford Arson Solo Ashburton

Ashburton Farmers Union debate fire safety and organiser

The Ashburton Branch of the New Zealand Farmers Union met discussing spark fires from engines and careless lightings. They considered an organiser for the South Island and urged government action on fire laws and railway risks.

Ashburton New Zealand Farmers Union Messrs RR. Gilmour W. T. Lill G. W. Leadley W. Harding W. Promipton Ani W. Anderson Leadley Anderson Tor Antines Alona Lill Eagredd Till An .Inetande Daingeo Harding New South Wales Ms. Harding Agricultural Conference Chaiman Mrt South Island North Island Frampton Farmers’ Union

Labour unrest sermon at St Pauls Cathedral and tragic Bushbury death

The Bishop of Worcester linked labour unrest to a broader national consciousness in a sermon at St Pauls Cathedral urging a new force beyond vote chasing. In Bushbury near Wolverhampton a dramatic scene ended with a man discovering a dying woman and a son killed by a throat wound. the Tenbury woman is hospitalized in critical condition.

Worcester St. Pauls Cathedral Bushbury Ayolvacampton Manavas Tenbury Wor ‘Tershire

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