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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jul 06, 1909
Page
2
All details indicate a land parcel offered with easy terms suitable for a retired farmer or profitable building site development. Potential buyers are urged to call for particulars and arrangements.
Local seller lowers prices on mutton beef and small goods with cash discount. Sides mutton 2d, hindquarters 3d, forequarters 24d, legs dd, loins 8d, trimmed loins 4d, necks 1s, shoulders dd, chops 5d. Wether mutton cost price after cuts. Booking fee half penny to penny, 24 discount for accounts paid next month, trial solicited.
A brief numeric fragment lists July 16 17 18 19 20 with notes likely marking events or entries. The series hints at a chronological record or schedule without additional context or names.
Birth notice from Mrs Breach at Rakaia records the arrival of a daughter to G. T. Smart of Chertsey on July 4. The brief notice notes the event and the families involved.
The author argues for a Pan-Britannic Parliament to represent Empire units. He cites the Press and Naval Defence Conferences as evidence of growing push for constitutional federation. Each unit would keep domestic parliaments while sharing governance through a common imperial body.
Report notes quibbling over a few shillings for outhouse care as Hampstead School Committee faces calls to improve building fumigation after measles outbreak. health officers urge strict precautionary measures. Also mentions Salvation Army plans for male and female inebriates homes on Ruthe's Island and land resumed for settlements. local real estate and bicycle ads accompany.
The Telegraph notes the Levuka line is interrupted but communication will likely be restored today. It reports on costs for the Timber Commission, parliamentary members’ pay, a temperance rally in Oamaru, Melba plans with Miss Thomson, a U.S. Supreme Court insurance case, and other local notices including ship passenger counts, education vacancies, and a Napier court fine.
Hampstead School closes for holidays due to measles and mumps outbreak. Forty pupils absent at start of week as households with affected members keep children home. Health Officer advised mandatory absences for contacts. immunity possible but not verifiable, prompting isolation.
West's Pictures, Friday night, will present a special programme of kino matograph subjects at Ashburton Oddfellows Hall. The New Zealand Touring Company brings fresh English and Continental films for a two night season with complete picture changes and electric light. Admission prices are affordable for all, with a special matinee Saturday at 2 30 for country residents.
A brief listing notes prices for Chronie Chest Compaints and Woods Great Peppermint Gura at 1s 6d and 28 6d respectively.
Local Road Board members joined Monts Somers Coal Company directors in inspecting the completed tramway linking the mine to the Woolshed Creek terminus. Visitors observed the new trestle structures and platform, noted the coal grading screen, and heard cheers for the company's future under Manager Hamilton.
A Redpark Mayfield resident shot a rabbit with a large fore leg cyst and sent it to Dr Handcock in Ashburton. The doctor confirmed hydatids, noting the disease is common in dogs and can contaminate water supplies. He suspects the rabbit contracted it via infected water and cites widespread cases in Australia.
The Warwickshire side named Wishwick Stephens Bridmore Foster Lilley Quaife Kinnear Charlesworth Santall Ridd and Hargreaves with Hopkins Carkeek Whitty O Connor absent. Australia led by Bardsley Hartigan, Noble and Trumper score heavy in good conditions before rain delays. Armstrong and Ransford contributed with a century stand as Australia posted 356 in five wickets. Worcestershire beat Middlesex by seven wickets.
The Rev. Algernon Gifford died this morning in Oanard at age 84. He had lived in the town for 47 years and was the district's first Anglican minister. He had been ill for some time.
Dunedin Police Commission member H W Bishop stated he may investigate how officers gained admission and their careers, planning to review every force member’s records and request correspondence with Police Department heads, despite being barred from probing immediate dismissal circumstances.
I D John Stone offers a Rider own Quilt with every Go-cart purchase. Fifteen go-carts in stock feature ice pattern finsih in newest color shades. Promotion details unclear but promises a free quilt with each buy.
Whakatane struck amidships by the Circe in fog off Dungeness. The ship flooded below the waterline but stayed afloat with tugs help. Circe ferried passengers to Dover. horses and mails to another liner. Whakatane towed to Dever and beached. crew mustered aft.
Reuter reports renewed political tension in Eastern Bengal following the murder of Sir William Wyllie. Calcutta newspapers link the act to recent Bengal events and accuse loyalists and Indian writers of inflaming students against the government. Local native papers express horror at the killing.
Victor Grayson MP condemns no one for the murder but offers sympathy to Indian victims. The Bombay Times and Parsis criticize officials over India policy. Lajpat Rai at Lahore denounces political assassinations and affirms he never knew the killer.
The inquest into Sir William Wyllie’s death found at Dhinagri’s lodgings a pistol practice record and incriminating papers plus Sir William’s letter to Dhinagri’s brother. The verdict was wilful murder. A Labals case witness claimed Dhinapri was drugged. A deputation of 2000 Indian seamen protested the murder at the docks.
A Newport lad Tom Lewis aged fourteen crawled into a thirty foot hole to saw a beam freeing a worker. The earth collapsed and the worker died while another man lost both legs and died later. Acland slide at Alexandra Dock extension trench buried many. Twenty two men found dead at Newport amid flood and wreckage. many rescued from timber formations and collapsed earth.
Fragmentary verse notes two lovers merged in a single sneeze and shared thoughts. The quirky oddity centers on merged chests and rosered noses, with a playful line about catching a wand of peppermint. The text presents a humorous, surreal image rather than a clear narrative.
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