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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 03, 1907
Page
2
Winter overcoats advertised as essential, promoting made to order options over ready made. Emphasizes lasting shape, economy, and choice of materials. Also lists real estate and farming properties for sale with details on acreage, buildings, livestock, and prices.
Four room dwelling with a scullery and four acres of land in a good location. Positioned second house from Wakanui Road on the north side. Terms and further particulars available on application. Eben Vance.
The sale offers Mr Tt Alcorns Rest reachies Property comprising ten rooms and offices copper built in with an acre of land. The property is well situated convenient to town and railway.
Data sheet listing sun rise and set times, moon phases from June 4 to June 26. Includes last quarter on 11, first quarter on 19, and a full moon around the 27. Provides times in the afternoon and morning, with approximate magnitudes and positions.
The piece praises Dr Alfred Russel Wallace for his rational critique of voting eligibility and argues for raising the voter age beyond twenty-one to ensure mature judgment in selecting Parliament. It surveys international age rules, notes potential exceptions for young minds, and suggests gradual reform toward a more discerning electorate.
A local ad announces bicycles reduced from £16 to £12 with free wheels brakes and other components. Also listed are oils outfits solution carbide saddles and all sundries discounted by eighty percent during the sale.
Local and general notes from Ashburton and nearby courts include a first offender fined 10s for drunkenness and James Brown fined 403 for liquor violations during a prohibition order. A judgment summons in Green away v Wickham led to immediate payment or seven days in prison. Church of Christ members received a valuable silver communion service funded by Mr J Houston. Community items cover a proposed rule addition for the Ashburton Acclimatisation Society, infant life lecture notes, a golf score from Dunedin over Christchurch, and a La Crosse result in Auckland. Proceeds and stamp duty totals for May are listed for several estates, along with shop notices about local businesses and a Sydney telegram about a high-pressure cylinder incident on a transport vessel. Woods Great Peppermint Cure is advertised for bronchial coughs.
The report notes ten million bacteria in a milk sample and 100 000 micro organisms per teaspoon on a warm day. It covers Dr Joby King's lecture at Rot Stephen's schoolroom, mentions a Wellington Supreme Court case linked to Paget murder, and records Wakanui Road Board’s plan to use bird traps to curb small birds.
A. Whitaker writes June 1, 1807 correcting Aristides about the mayor’s alleged involvement with the Royal Hotel license. He states the mayor did not hold any interest since November 6, 1901 and that no license existed after 1902 as licenses in the district ceased on June 30, 1903.
In Christchurch on Saturday the Canterbury reds defeated the Combined team 16 to 9 at Lancaster Park. Key scorers included McDonald and Harvey for Canterbury while Burns and Fuller helped the Whites, with Blackwell suffering a broken leg during play.
Prices at the Kakanni draught horse sale near Oamaru were strong with a General White filly fetching 100 guineas from Mc T Dowling and another 90 guineas from W F Clinton. Other mares sold from 45 to 53 pounds and zeldings up to 60 pounds. The Clydesdale stallion Dalmouth Prince transfers to W F Clinton, Ashburton. Also noted are a 5 percent dividend declared by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company and a May 30 London cable from Mesara Dalgary Co. reporting butter imports to the UK totaling 92,000 hundredweight for the week ending May 26, with the market unchanged.
Since ancient times people suffer from coughs and chills but science now offers relief. Visit Mellor's Boots and Shoes on Tancred Street Ashburton for the finest line of boosts and slippers. Every pair honestly made and reliable with prices guaranteed low in town.
Centenary thanksgiving services at Ashburton Primitive Methodist Church featured Rev J Liddell and evening speakers Rev W T Lill and Mr G W Leadley. Discussions recalled early founders like William Clowes, Hugh Bourne, and field day camp meetings of 1807, praising the church’s social reform role and its rise to over a million adherents. A love feast followed with old songs and testimonies.
The Tinwald Domain Board met on Saturday with Chairman C. Doherty and members J. Hampton and J. Small. They approved the chairman’s action on a creek clearance complaint by N. Fitzgerald, and discussed land exchange with Ashburton A and P Association. An inspection with E. Gates and the Commissioner of Crown Lands noted railway crossing needs and potential land-board approval. Willows around the lake are being toppled, a firewood disposal sub-committee is formed, and approval was given to trim a macrocarpa fence by the railway. Accounts totaling £5 5s 3d were passed for payment.
An ad for a four cylinder car priced at £260 with delivery and tuition included. It promises easy driving, improved performance, and durability features. The seller, The Motor Power Co of Tancred Street Y, claims to be a Southern agent. Also promotes Woods Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds at 1s 6d and 25 6d.
Reports from London and Paris outline trials in Croydon Brinchtey for poisoning and Wertheimer robbery cases with sentences of five to seven years. Royalty news notes King Edward’s wartime gesture and Prince Fo-hina’s voyage. Fragments mention Franco-Japanese treaty basics and visiting journalists as Berlin Potsdam and Potsdam hosts receive English reporters.
United Press reports an anarchist act set an unguarded engine toward a express train carrying the Grand Duke Constanti in Sebastopol. An engine driver leaped aboard to stop the collision, preventing a disaster.
Thirty thousand Chinese reportedly join a revolt, led by a figure named Perrin Jase. The uprising centers around Amoy with organized leadership and broad participation under religious authority.
A strike of naval reservists, led by Jane Panis, halted chipping in French ports over changes to the pension scale, disrupting harbor operations and signaling broader veteran benefits tensions.
On June 2 the strike halted shipping at Marseilles Havre Bordeaux and other ports depriving Paris of colonial produce. Vorpado boats and transports carry mails and perishable goods from Algiers and Tania to sustain notables. The notice notes widespread disruption affecting routes and supply lines between North Africa and France.
The British consider arranging an entra Chansal service if Calniz and Dieppe boats withdraw, signaling shifting naval posture and potential impact on regional operations.
The South London Club beat the New Zealand bowlers by five points on a single rink in a tight match.
City financiers view the downturn as natural rather than systemic. The Hon. Aiban Gibbs notes that old quotations are unlikely to be reached again, as new securities remain available for trustees seeking investments.
A blaze at the summer residence of Walter Schiffer a wealthy cigar manufacturer in Long Branch New Jersey left two daughters two servants and a housekeeper dead. Hoe and his wife suffered severe injuries while attempting to rescue others.
The Nation comments on Noncon formist frethfulness saying the government has not had time to succeed and will not use the word failure. The remark reflects cautious optimism and belief in eventual results from the administration.
London June debate on the Criminal Appeal Bill with Mr Herbert Gladstone noting the need for careful committee scrutiny. He proposed transferring the compensation for wrongful conviction from the Home Office to a tribunal for review.
A Royal Engineers war balloon with Lieutenants Caulfield and Leak ascended near Aldar ehot on Tuesday, trailing anchor at 100 ft. It was missing until Thursday when found empty by a fishing smack near Exmouth. The king expressed grief. safety valve was closed and cordage intact.
Lord Milner addressing a Unionist gathering at York praised Sir Edward Grey and Mr John Morley for Egypt and India's steadiness, warned of Irish and Labour mischief in Britain driving Transvaal unrest, and urged a living principle of preferential colonial production to boost exports, British settlers, and imperial power.
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