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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jul 31, 1902
Page
2
Sun and Moon details list rise times and lunar phases for July 29. It notes New Moon at 0 29 a.m. First Quarter at 6 17 a.m. Perigee at 1 30 a.m. Full Moon at 4 15 a.m. Last Quarter at 4 45 p.m. Apogee at 10 p.m.
Mails close on Thursday July 31 with adjustments for Rotomahana and Westralia sailings. Departures from Northern Ports, Westport, and Sydney via Rotomahana and Westralia include Aug 1 and Sept 6 London, with lists extending to Samoa Hawaii Philippines Japan and Europe.
United Press reports daily commodity prices with listings for Alexandra Lead at 14s 14s 6d and Old Dunstan at 33 9d. Market brief notes small shifts in metal sales for the day.
Commercial London Markets reports total wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom at 2,160,000 quarters and for the Continent at 990,000 quarters.
Daily market notes record July 30 prices for wheat milling oats barley maize bran and pollard across Sypazyx Memnponung and Amparms with firm wheat values and varied flour oats and barley rates. Tasmanian Algerian and Victorian consignments show price ranges for potatoes onions and dairy products including New Zealand butter cheese and bacon with per ton and per unit figures.
Entry of cattle totals 168 head with mixed quality and strong demand. Beef prices from 19s to 25s 6d per 10dih. bullocks 9 to 11. stears 6 25 6d to 8 10s. heifers 6 25 6d to 7 3 6d. heavy cows 8 to 10 10s. Surmer 4500 fat sheep yarded with keen demand for shipment to Sydney. Lambs fat 160 head with export demand up to 16s 9d. store sheep 1750 mainly wethers sold well 1s to 13s 4d. Stores easier baconets 378 to 4a. porkers 21s to 34s. big stores 15s to 28s.
Burnside stock market today shows 120 fat cattle yarded with prices up 10s per head. Best bullocks 10 to 11 5s, primes up to 12 10s, cows and heifers 7 to 8 10s, light 4 10s to 5 10s. Sheep yarded 1385 fat, wethers and lambs improving. best wethers 17s 6d to 18s 9d, lambs 10s to 18s, pigs 95 penned with varied values by class.
Good attendance at the Geraldine farmers yards yesterday accompanied a healthy sale. Entry included a fair run of sheep with satisfactory prices. 4 6 and 8 tooth ewes sold, hoggets in two lines of two hundred each, at nine shillings and 72 pence, an old ewe at 1s 6d. Cattle entries also fair with springers bringing 4 to 6 pounds and weights around 128 guineas.
Clearing sale held yesterday on the farm of Mr C. Rippingale Ashburton Works drew moderate attendance Prices fetched included a bay filly by Vauquigher 239 bay filly by Champion 20 bay mare Dolly 6103 brindle cow 3 14s 8 pigs 7s each implements sold including dray and frame 7 terper and binder 1 reading harness 45 side delivery 10s gabls furrow ploughs 424 10s set of four horse block types 1 15s surveyor s chains 12s binder truck 128 6d spring cart 5 2s 6d plus sundries at market rates
An old advertisement promotes Evans's Main King Asthma Powder as a exclusive cure for asthmatic troubles. The text also mentions smoke and a product called New Venus, reflecting period marketing language and claims.
An interview with Mr H. H. Stephens warns potential settlers to South Africa about irrigation costs, deadly stock diseases, and weak reading demand, noting that even with British enterprise, farming and stock-raising faces major hurdles and long payback periods.
A Canterbury District Farmers' Union executive meeting occurred yesterday in Christchurch. Local items note weather, cycling club news, a successful social for Capt. Tucker, Coronation Bible error, tailoring visits, and dairy industry insights urging quality and global market attention.
The Education Boards of the colony hold a meeting in Wellington on August 12. The Bott le Lake Hospital has discharged all patients except the caretaker and one nurse. Mr J G Woolley, an American temperance advocate, hopes to revisit New Zealand next year.
The Blue Book reports bitter resignation on concentration camp suffering and warns that most Kaffir tribes are armed. Milner calls for enlarged Legislative Councils and settler cooperation with Chamberlain approving assisted immigration. Milner urges large scale colonists with fixed rent or installment plans. Kitchener thanks Milner and praises colonial support. Intending emigrants face Delagoa Bay landing restrictions and entry permits. Photographers under royal patronage advertised.
The County Band gave a sixpenny concert at Oddfellows Hall under Mayor and council patronage. Pirates of Penzance and Soldiers in the Park pleased the crowd. A Bach meditation, La Carita, Excelsior, Houp La Cariina and comic songs drew strong encores. Musicians praised for hard work though hall piano needs tuning.
The Upper Ashburton Road Board held its monthly meeting in the boardroom with chairman C J Harper and members D McLean M Stitt J Tucker and R Campbell present. Matters included correspondence from the Auditor General Henry Ford and Mrs McConochie about expenses for a Narrows accident. a subsidy declaration. roadworks and shingle proposals. boundary road alterations. and resignations and appointments for inspector posts. The board approved works on cottages roads and crossings and refused liability for Mrs McConochie. Accounts totaling £247 6s 11d were paid and the meeting adjourned.
House debates deep in borrowing policy with MPs urging restraint yet urging continued public works. Speakers advocate freehold limits, endow Crown lands for pensions, and press for Waipara Picton and North Island trunk railways while warning against excessive debt. The session adjourned and reconvened with renewed focus on financing and railway priorities.
An advert promotes Impey's May Apple as a gentle permanent remedy for sluggish liver and bilious distress. It claims to relieve constipation and low mood, noting doctors would charge for diagnosis. Sold by chemists at 2s 6d or post free from Sharland and Co. Wellington.
The council discussed bills including the Chemists' Payment of Secret Commissions Prevention Act and various amendments to 1902 land and factory acts. A motion to equalize railway travelling allowances passed, and the New Zealand University Age Amendment Bill to reconstruct the Senate was debated before adjournment at 3.40 pm.
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