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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jul 25, 1908
Page
2
Auction or sale listing for a 3 acre residential property featuring a five room dwelling with pantry verandah wash house copper built in and stable. Includes abundant water supply and unusually low price for the era.
Ephemeris for July lists rise and set times with daily figures. Includes phases of the moon for July with dates of first quarter full moon last quarter new moon and apogee perihelion and perigee times and related notes.
The article analyzes tangled European aims over Macedonia and the Ottoman Empire. It notes Britain Russia Germany Austria and Italy pursuing conflicting ends while Turkey faces internal unrest and a push for constitutional reform. A postscript recalls a reported Turkish constitution event with far reaching implications.
The passage argues that repeated trials will likely fail again, forecasting continued paternalism from growing state interests in magics and reduced self reliance. It warns that state dependence will rise as the State expands its role.
Mr Joseph Ivess visits Ashburton with fair health and vigor amid a dull business climate. Frosts reach eight degrees at the Domain. Stocking remains understocked, grazing profits shift, and wool exports to the United Kingdom rise slightly. A motor cycle muffler drive prompts safety calls, while local and national news covers canal politics, paradise ducks protection, and fire protection pumping schemes in New York. South Australian grain and stock figures show wheat and barley yields with optimism for export. Local ads note an ironmonger’s decade of support and a Canterbury Farmers pamphlet offering dozens of properties for sale through Timaru.
In Godkin's view Australian colonies develop national pride through literature art and sports while trade thrives. Competition drives athletic records and the ideal of superiority, yet this vigor may hinder communal systems and state aid. He notes colonies forming political habits that could plague origins later.
The Timara Harbour Board plans a 796 foot wharf with 1140 feet of berthage and 30 foot depth at low water. Miss McIntyre funds three years of college via beekeeping. Lindfield Parish Council pursues swan breeding selling cygnets at 10s each. A Royal Photographic Society talk notes the death's head moth as a hive intruder. A new strawberry forcing method uses open beds with overhead glass to ripen fruit early. An error in Guardian misdated Baring Square Church tea meeting as October 6th instead of August 6th.
The Arbitration Court's Ashburton Timber Yards Saw mills and Coal Yards Award covers employers in Ashburton Staveley Hinds Methven Greenstreet Linwood Mount Somers and Rakaia and runs from July 27 to April 2 1911. Wages set for drivers firemen youths casuals and carters vary by role and horse power with provisions mirroring the Canterbury award and a district scope north of the Rangitata and south of the Rakaia river.
A report compares New Zealand made farm implements with Australian and Victoria prices. It lists costs for items such as ploughs, tine and disc harrows, yokes and combined drills, with regional terms like half cash in Victoria, nett cash in New South Wales, and 24 percent off for cash in New Zealand. Delivery terms differ by region, with Victoria and New South Wales quoted delivered at the factory and New Zealand quotations covering railage or freight to ports.
Wellington July 24 resolutions urged abolition of shop closing nights universal Saturday half holiday weekly day of rest and act amendments to enforce compliance police power in Shops and Offices Act expand building inspector duties to show material class and file certificates housing concerns and faster building of workers homes oppose leasing mineral lands propose national annuities bill appoint Labour reps on boards urge state control of liquor license traffic with 17 to 7 vote against license stance and broader labor reforms across government and economy.
The Trades and Labour Council considered the Workers Compensation Act today and adopted amendments. It defined worker as any person under contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer, covering manual labor clerical work and others whether paid by wages or salary. A proposal for juried trial of compensation for accident cases was defeated 18 to 9.
F. N. motor cycles topped the Christchurch reliability trial with first second and fourth places in the amateur riders section. Johnston is the local agent for these motors.
Wellington reports that High Commissioner William Pember Reeves will resign in October to become director of the London Schools of Economics. Hall-Jones is floated as likely successor. Reeves will leave with government approval as soon as London duties begin. Reeves’s departure prompts cabinet review and a note of appreciation from Parliament.
Residents in Auckland report a fatal shooting after a gun discharge wounded solicitor J M Melville who was shot in the forehead during an incident near Matakohe. In Wellington a shearer named Alexander Webster died after being run over by a train from Wellington to Te Aro, his legs and arm severely injured before his death at hospital.
The scow Haere, arriving from Wellington and loading timber for Auckland, was driven ashore at Oma Pere on the south side of Hokianga harbour in a north west gale last night. It sits on a sandy beach in a safe position and appears undamaged.
A blaze at Messrs Campbell and Ehrenfried Albert Brewery in Auckland broke out in a malting house at 10 o clock last night and raged until 11. The fire caused about £2000 in damage while threatening the Albert Hotel. Boarders and servants evacuated but returned once the fire was controlled. The message arrived late with insurance details missing.
The Special Board under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in Auckland this afternoon ruled on the tramways dispute. All demands were conceded except a ban on reinstating blacklegs. The board ordered conductor Herdson reinstated and required safeguards on dismissals, access to reports, truthful reporting, and removal of a supervisor from direct contact with the men. The recommendations take effect September 1, 1908 and run to August 31, 1909.
A historical notice notes a remedy named Wands' Great Peppermint Cure marketed for nighttime hacking coughs. Te Ged and 28 6d appear as price or reference in the fragment.
Duchess of Argyll opened Kensington Palace exhibition illustrating childhood art. British Empire sent 15 000 drawings with Australian entrants excelling. Sir John Cockburn spoke on Australia’s efforts to nurture young imagination.
Hon. Alexis Roche sues Sir Timot O'Brien for slander. judge finds third party influence attempt and grants a conditional order for contempt of court against O'Brien. Proceedings halted as the Cork Assizes record the ruling on July 25 at 8 27 a.m.
Gazette reports Bombay cloth and copper bazaars and markets closed in sympathy with Tilak. In Bombay and elsewhere riots followed but were suppressed by the military, with one killed and several wounded as twenty thousand mill hands struck.
Cape Town July 24 General Botha states he urged the Imperial Government to keep the Transvaal garrison for defense but the Army Council refused to retain extra troops to avoid disturbing the army's organisation and increasing costs.
London July 24 action from Winston Churchill to appoint a Departmental Committee to inquire how far and in what manner meat supply, distribution, and price in the United Kingdom are affected by combinations of firms. Lord Robert Cecil to chair with four MPs and representatives from Boards of Trade and Agriculture plus a meat trade expert.
Responding to Welsh Nonconformists, Prime Minister Asquith pledges a 1909 bill to disestablish and disendow the Church of Wales. The move aims to separate church and state funding and authority in Wales.
The Labour party pledges to introduce in the autumn session a bill for compulsory feeding of school children. It aims to ensure every pupil receives meals, outlining funding and administration steps.
In the report stage Ulster members failed to move amendments as bitter speeches filled the session. Sir William Anson criticized the government plan as placing the university under priestly control and likened it to a theological seminary. Birrell would push the bill by past methods. J Redmond claimed the university would be freely governed, not clerically.
Ottawa July 24 The day’s main event celebrated Samuel de Champlain with a grateful tribute from the Prince of Wales to Champlain’s enduring fame. Officials from Canada Britain and the Empire joined in observing the historic procession, while telegraphs from Australia and New Zealand offered congratulations.
Three armed Italian men entered a saloon in Janisiog near Boston and killed one man and wounded two. They rifled a cash register, one robber was arrested, the others fled. The next night they returned to free their comrade, shot and killed another man and wounded several, including three policemen and a woman with a baby. The bandits hid in a cemetery where police surrounded the area. one bandit was killed, the other wounded and captured.
A brief ad style notice promises relief for bronchial coughs with a peppermint remedy. The text suggests taking a single peppermint dose to ease cough symptoms.
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