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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 03, 1910
Page
2
Advertises expanded dining revenue and new Appledale fresh fish supply. Highlights large daily fish stock for country customers and own clients with regular three weekly visits and daily availability. Specifies fresh fish, grills, and varied offerings at all hours.
A brief notice describes 65 acres of land in crop that with succeeding harvests will fund a reasonable man and his needs and is located close to a school.
Our electrical appliances will arrive from Europe and be installed immediately. They are the most complete and up to date that can be purchased.
Ephemeris notes the Moon phases for June including Last Quarter at 9 55 am and New Moon at 8 0 460.10, First Quarter at 8 d0 am, Full Moon on June 8, and apogee at 1 18 6 80pm. Also lists sunrise times and various June days with terms like Mull Moon and Perigos.
The specially fitted whaler Terra Nova departs London West India Dock for Portsmouth to coal at Cardiff and depart for New Zealand en route to McMurdo Sound. The ship, three times Nimrod, carries a seasoned polar crew including Evans, Pennell, Campbell, and Wilson, with Meares to lead ponies and dogs. The voyage aims to reach the Pole by December 1911, with a return to New Zealand two years later if successful.
The Rev RA M Davies of Knox Ghureh Dunedin spoke at the Empire Day event in Ashburton before departing home by the afternoon express. Ashburton Mounted Rifles held a muster with 30 plus under Capt G Hardy and Lt Orr for field work practice. A Danevirke telegram reports Charles Baker fined £10 with costs for betting at Wallingford sports ground in February. The Taranaki dairy factory April figures show a drop. Hawera paid £5274 and butterfat totals 78 583 lb. Mor mandy suppliers sent 29 3 lb. payments at 10d per lb, with various factory totals. The 1 0 0,7 Hakatere Lodge met, sick pay granted, new members joined, lodge nominations discussed, and a card tournament vs Hibernians played. London cable notes a 200 warship world cruise, likely next year via Gibraltar, S Africa, India, Australia, Japan, and Canada. Daimler engines praised. G H Carson of Tancred Street sells Daimler engines in the district with 500 output potential.
Reports from Sydney’s Quarter Sessions show a prisoner acquittal, while labour bureau sources note many city workers and charwomen offering services. Paddocks near Dromore suffer grub damage, autumn sown wheat and old grasslands show bare patches, and lime dressing is becoming common with vendors like Blackburne Smith and Co offering crushed lime supplies.
The Hon. G Fowlls addressed a Grey Lynn meeting defending the government stance on handing the Government House site to University College and opposing mass political interference in the Defence Department. He argued against a royal commission and noted limits on re hearing the Knyvett case, outlining military law constraints and future parliamentary action. Dr Findlay praised Mr Fowlds and the audience gave thanks.
Palmerston North June 2 The Pawelka robbery case heard today featured Kendalls identifying the defendant as their assailant. Pawelka, the sole defense witness, claimed ignorance. After about five hours the jury disagreed and a retrial is set for Monday.
Canterbury Land Board met with Commissioner presiding. Transfers recommended for approval include multiple allotments in Mead Settlement Highbank and Dromore with several named grantees. several lease transfers deferred or declined due to ownership issues. sale of an acre section to church bodies in Ruapuna Settlement recommended.
News briefs report generous aid for the Whitehaven colliery disaster fund, clarify Canada immigration regulations and the need for a passenger ticket to destinations, a Rome poisoning by ice cream made from rotten eggs, a reception for Sir George Reid with singers, a travel update on G S Rolls, and details on the French submarine Pluviose wreck with a hatch found half open.
New York June 2 press dispatch says American papers mock what they call the last proof of Mr Roosevelt's omniscience. Hearst, visiting Paris, denounces Roosevelt as a self-advertising figure seeking favor with monarchies and empires.
The Cretan Executive Committee sends a note to the Powers declaring Crete cannot live without Greek institutions and requests that the Powers promote the union of Crete with Greece as the only solution.
A Buenos Ayres anarchist allegedly gave a boy a bomb to carry to a cathedral during the centenary Te Deum. The boy’s partner, mistaking it for a meat tin, wrestled for it and it exploded. One boy was killed instantly and the other lost both arms. Censorship has been established. authorities believe the device targeted the event.
A Cossack girl from Kharbin Manchuria traveled to St Petersburg mounted on a Mongolian pony with a single St Bernard dog as her companion.
Count Bonturlin, heir to £700000, dies suddenly. His brother in law Vyassy and Dr Patchenko are arrested for bribery and administering strychnine. Exhumations reveal poison traces on two of Bonturlin’s brothers. A Warsaw murder case links another family member. Police accuse the doctor of killing wealthy heirs for estates. Count Bogdan Ronikier, a Polish nobleman, is jailed in Warsaw for murdering his brother in law.
A 17 year old girl in Zakharova near Tomsk in Siberia killed her 12 year old brother with an axe, broke her mother's spine, cut off her arms, and wounded her uncle. She was arrested during an assault on her aunt amid taunts about flightiness.
Shanghai revolutionaries warned Foreign Legations of an extensive anti dynastic uprising. They said foreigners would be spared unless Legations aid the Manchus, in which case they would face massacre.
A late report from Tierra del Fuego records the loss of life when the barque Swanhilda foundered off the cape. Fourteen persons drowned as the vessel sank in heavy seas, with survivors seeking safety after the wreck.
Jamer Cargill and James Wilson, a builder, were sentenced to one month imprisonment for failing to keep proper books of account. It was directed that he should be treated as a first class misdemeanant.
The proposal to hold the coronation of King George on Empire Day wins favor in Canada and South Allies. Sir George Reid says it would be a happy event to tie the ceremony to a day increasingly linked with Empire unity and loyalty.
London June 2 Reuters correspondent reports Captain Scott hopes the Antarctic expedition will cost within 50 000 pounds. He says the Mother Country has done its part and aims to spark interest in overseas dominions during visits to South Africa and Australia. Funds may fall short to finish the work. Dr Charcot sends good wishes. Terra Nova sails under the white ensign with Lieutenant Evans commanding, salute by river ships. Captain Bartlett notes the American expedition plans Antarctic work in 1911 starting in the Wed dell sex, unsure of seasons missed.
London reports that King George granted Admiral Peary a half hour audience on June 2, detailing a formal royal greeting and a concise meeting.
Capetown June 2 The first Union Cabinet meeting decided to release Dinizulu He will live at Hylstroom with his wives in reasonable liberty and will have an annual allowance of £500 subject to good behaviour In March 1909 Dinizulu was convicted by the Natal Court of sheltering relatives of the defeated rebel Bambaasta and fined and sentenced to four years imprisonment
The Transvaal Leader applauds Sauer Malan and Burton joining the Ministry while the Johannesburg Star condemns Fischer and Hertzog inclusion. The Free Staters express intense gratification at Hertzog's omission, and Lionel Phillips greets Smuts's appointment in Johannesburg.
A stiff easterly gale and heavy rain lash coastal districts with Mullumbimby reporting over nine inches in 24 hours and Murwillumbah six and a quarter inches. The Macleay steamer bumped the bar, sprang a leak, and was berthed after a night ashore. Legislative Council elections in Melbourne yielded eight unopposed and one Labour victory amid low polling.
The Sydney brick price rose four shillings to two guineas per thousand, affecting new construction. The rise follows higher brickmaker wages by the Wages Board, with critics suggesting a one shilling per thousand adjustment could meet the demand. The Federal Attorney General is examining the case for possible action against the Brick Company.
Observations from Sydney Observatory show significant shocks over three days. The largest quake occurred on June 1, the strongest since February, with a preliminary tremor at four pm and the main phase starting five minutes later. Long waves lasted nineteen minutes.
Christchurch hotel betting issue discussed by Licensing Bench chairman Mr Bishop S M five hotels named by police as bookmakers hubs licensees cooperated with police and two premises stopped betting after warning a strong action to curb abuses noted as approved by the chairmanship.
At a meeting in New Plymouth on June 2 the Taranaki Petroleum Company directors read a letter from a London brokerage firm offering to handle negotiations or sale of the company’s property. Directors voiced satisfaction that the New Zealand petroleum industry is attracting attention from substantial old-country interests.
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