08 Jul 1905
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jul 08, 1905
Page
1
Advertises guns and ammunition including Nobel's Ballistica English make. Lists hedging knives trimming hooks mattocks hoes ploughs and chains. Promotes the display as best value and invites trials by the local agent.
Ashburton Agency reports wheat prices for Tuscan Pearl Hunters and Danish lines unchanged with small milling demand and little shipment. Oats offerings scarce with high demand for cheap feed, milling oats exhausted. prices quoted for Carmians Gartons and Dung at specific pence per bushel while chaff demand weak and prime prices contested.
The week shows limited sales with Tuscan at 2s 10d, Velvet 23 94d, Red Chaff 25 9d per 1.0b sacks 6d. Oats stay firm Gartons 1s 7d, Danish 6d, Duns 1m 74d to 1s 8d on trucks. Potatoes see few enquiries with no offers. barley demand has eased and no buyers remain.
Our Christchurch correspondent notes a lull in trading with only small lots of wheat and oats moving. Demand for Derwent Potatoes is weak locally, while Up to date potatoes fetch about £7 per ton at country stations amid limited enquiry and no price advances.
Cable from London dated yesterday reports higher prices for frozen mutton by a small stake per pound due to a temporary stock shortage. Dalgety and Co in London receive the update and relay it.
Advertisement notes a remedy for bronchial roughs by Woods and his Great Peppermint Cure. The tone encourages relief through a peppermint flavored tonic. The item presents a period patent medicine style claim.
Lisle OA outlines export merchants and the goods they ship, detailing Colonia and foreign markets served, with steamship lines organized by port destinations. The listing indicates approximate sailings and routes for each line, reflecting a structured map of trade links and logistics in the era.
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