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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jul 17, 1902
Page
2
The note lists moon phases including New Moon First Quarter Perigee Full Moon Last Quarter Apogee, indicating celestial cycle mentions. It reads as a compact almanac style reminder of lunar stages and orbital points.
July 17 sales report lists Alexandra Lead prices 10s 6d 10s 9d 11s Alpine Consols 208 193 6d Bendigo 68 David Bend 43 3d dis Teebatice 15s 148 9d Mente Christo 16s 6d with varying market quotations from Bendigo and nearby firms.
The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,655,00 quarters and for the Continent 1,140,000 quarters. Wool shows keen competition with top prices. The Dretd clip realised 53d and an Australian wheat cargo sold at 298 Gd.
Market notes show wheat quoted 4s 4d to 4s 6d and oats with New Zealand and Tasmanian varieties. Flour and bran values recorded, maize around 4s 9d, pollard near 1s 4d, potatoes and onions listed by Tasmanian and New Zealand sources, cheese and butter prices also given from New Zealand. Additional July 16 figures include Algerian oats and various bran and pollard figures.
Fat cattle totalled 185 head with good bullocks and light heifers and cows and a sharp rise. Hogs brought 19s to 20s per 106 lb, best bullocks £10 to £12, ordinary steers £6 to £9, prim heifers £8 to £5 10s. About 3000 fat sheep yarded with crossbreds in demand for export to Sydney amid tariff changes. Store sheep 1126 entered, baconers and store prices noted. eased by market briskness.
July 16 sale saw Carriz-106 yarded with prices about 10s higher. Best bullocks £10 to £11 17s 1d, medium £8 10s to £9 15s, cows and heifers £7 10s to £9 5s. Surer-1975 penned, slightly easier. wethers 15s to 17s 6d, 18s to 15 8d. Lambs 6s 6d to 13s 6d, Pras-133 mixed sales. suckers 2s 6d to 10s, stores 18s to 22s, porkers 25s to 31s, baconers 40s to 60s.
A good turnout at the Geraldine farmers yards reports a healthy livestock sale. Prices for sheep include two toothing ewes in lamb at 12s 6d, 6 to 8 tooth ewes at 13s 6d, fat ewes up to 10s 8d, wethers around 7s, and forward wethers 12s 8d. Cattle entries are strong with cows in profit from £5 to £6 10s and young stock around £4 to £5, yearlings and calves noted.
New Merinoola fabric for ladies blouses offers warmth and softness. Made from pure merino wool grown in New Zealand, it features a wide range of patterns and colours and suits invalids and cold weather. Available ready made blouses through leading drapers in New Zealand with Kaiapoi cloth.
The Ashburton Guardian reports mixed inspector verdicts on handwriting in public schools with praise for Auckland and Nelson results and calls for uniform methods. Also covered are the Ashburton County Band meeting, Captain Fred Tucker’s Afrikaans voyage, Colonel Owen’s rifle range inspection, Arbor Day events at Hampstead School, tailoring notices, and a Victorian wheat harvest update plus a Waverley cycles sale in New Zealand.
Local page notes cable news, weather, and events. Entries for the Ashburton Poultry Society show total about 500 across classes. A sixty third appropriation ballot for Ashburton No 1 Building Society favored shares 71 and 72, held by Mrs J W Timmins. Canterbury veterans list adds Frank Burgan Standish. Public notices promote bicycle brands and local shops with prices and fittings.
A cluttered collection of local notices includes an auction sale by Mr D. Thomas at the Arcade on Saturday July 26, a freehold 86 acre property near Ashburton owned by John Hepburn, a fancy dress ball in Methven schoolroom on Friday July 25 with refreshments, and a draper’s special discount offer from H. C. Barratt. Other items record cautions on formal letter closings, a Boston flag fine, Newcastle road paving plans, and assorted medical and promotional notices from Christchurch and Amsterdam exhibitors.
A reader urges the Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Association to shift from entertainment focus to education. He advocates transparent judging with reasons printed, public judge explanations, veterinary checks, and prizes aligned to British standards to teach young workers and benefit breeders and communities.
Australia dominated Gloucestershire in a two innings win after declaring at five wickets for 5465 and bowling Gloucestershire out for 168 in the follow on. Hopkins, Darling, and Armstrong starred for Australia with scores and times noted while Gloucestershire’s Beard, Sewell, and Jessop were top scorers for the visitors.
July 17 report shows Sussex 705 for eight with Ranjitsinhji not out 234. London County 568 against Marylebone, Poidevin 161 and Grage 131, marking Grage’s two hundredth century.
An advertisement extols Impey's May Apple as the ideal family medicine. It claims to ease indigestion and regulate digestion by aiding liver and kidney action, noting its tonic effects and universal availability from Sharland and Co in Wellington at 23d per bottle or post free.
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