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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 04, 1907
Page
2
The notice promotes made to order Goats coats as the best value for winter wear emphasizing fit, shape retention, and longevity over ready made options. It urges early orders to secure best materials and warns against paying less for inferior, short lived garments.
The page lists sun rise and set times alongside moon phases for June. It notes last quarter at 3:50 p.m., new moon at 11:20 a.m., first quarter at 2:25 p.m., and apogee and perigee moments with approximate dates and times.
Sentries report strong entries in Ashburton Winter Show poultry and stock sections foreshadow a successful event. Town meetings address education reserves and band contests with offers of prizes. Community activities include a hockey win, farewell for Mr Healy, foresters meeting, and racing club nominations amid lighting debates.
Ashburton Borough Council faced absenteeism at its second meeting while approving wage rises for staff and planning a lamp at a resident’s corner. Crimes include opium seizures in Alexandra Street after a raid led by Detective Quirks and Constable Connor. A hare drive in Coldstream yielded 140 hares from a 21 guns shoot.
The Dunedin Star presents calculations on bread pricing arguing bakers earn excessive profit under current scales. Using flour at £7 per ton, the 4lb loaf yields a high price and an inflated 4d or 6d standard, suggesting public overcharge. A higher flour price scenario shows even greater margins.
London dated June 3 reports the Education Conference debating the role of history and geography in curricula. H. A. Fisher of New College Oxford urges colonial universities to study modern European history to address ignorance of European politics, with the government promising a 1911 official conference as a start to a regular series.
A committee including Mayd-George Buxton Churchill and Runciman will seek expert opinion and other evidence on the All-British route via Canada to Australia. A final decision is expected in the current month.
The German American tariff agreement has been promulgated in Washington. It grants U S reductions totaling 1 250 000 while Germany offers cuts of only 40 000. The 20 percent cut on German champagnes prompts France to retaliate on cotton seed oil and Puerto Rico coffee.
Balloonists urged Winterborne residents to grasp a rope near rooftops as the craft skimmed low over Dorset, an occupant clung to the rigging trying to adjust the mechanism. Officers lacking grapnels watched as the ballooned vessel flew seaward with risky near-ground passes.
During a national fete in Rome on June 3 the King and Queen saw a military balloon struck by lightning and burn. Captain Olivelli was thrown to the ground and died after hours of injuries despite the king’s bedside vigil at the hospital.
At London debate Lord Carrington condemned Milners remarks as unfair and untrue to a Government. Milner told York rally radicals divert their energy to South Africa and warned Britain ceded the Transvaal to a racial party from Capetown to the Limpopo.
Mr Austen Chamberlain says his father's recovery remains gradual but steady. The Chamberlain family announces Mr Chamberlain has returned to better health and shows marked improvement.
The steamer Oroya broke down off Ushant on Saturday evening and was in a helpless condition for three hours while a damaged intermediate crank shaft was temporarily repaired. Passengers landed in Plymouth and the vessel remains there for repairs. The voyage from the Portuguese coast was slowed by strong winds and a vibration near Ushant alarmed travellers.
The Southern Cross departed Norfolk Island yesterday for Auckland with passengers including Rev M Wilson and Miss Wilson. A hunting accident in Melbourne left Colonial Ricardo gravely injured after a fall that fractured the base of his skull. News arrives of a payable copper discovery in New Guinea.
The Methodist Conference decided to form a committee with two representatives from each State and New Zealand to consider a connexional fire insurance plan. Mr Robson of New South Wales proposed resolutions to grant the Fijian Church a full share in self government within the Australian Methodist Church and to establish a Hijian Conference at the 1910 General Conference. As an interim measure the New South Wales District Synod could elect two ministers and two laymen, European or native, to stand for election at the next Conference.
A fragment notes nighttime coughing affecting a household, with references to a caretaker and daily routines. The text mentions a pepper remedy and a mysterious event on a late date, but specific names, places, or outcomes are unreadable.
The Australian Premiers Conference proposes adding 40 000 annually to Tasmanian returns until July and $902 to December. supports representation at the Franco British Exhibition and calls Commonwealth action on deep sea fisheries and freight contracts. It also approves a plan to deploy entomologist visits to fruit fly regions and discusses transfer of the Northern Territory.
At Brisbane on June 3 the Premiers affirmed free inter course between Australia and Pacific Islands and urged local trade conditions for all traders. They called for removing regulations that disable Australian traders and pressed Britain to seek prompt settlement of the Burns Philp claim and costs to restore treaty and trading rights in the Marshall and Caroline Islands.
Reports from June discuss Count Eulenburg’s plotted fall from favor and Count Caprivi’s downfall linked to influence. Japanese warships Trukuh and Chimose are welcomed in Sheerness. London uses margarine to save ratepayers. Anti-government demonstrations in Nimoy draw 200000 participants.
Reported plan lists Puxin Juge and Chinese maritime customs as state items at Dalag starting July 1. Kiaoohau raids cost seventy lives between Amoy and Swatew. Two thousand Auld troops reach Swatuw as food distribution fails in famine districts. British and American fleets concentrate at Pakhoi and southern Chinese ports to confront spreading trouble.
In Paris and Jaco the strike paralyzes every Wrench port while only French steamers or those cleared by the strike committee can depart. The government deploys the Navy to maintain passenger and mail services.
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