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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 04, 1909
Page
2
Lucinda Sophia Funge aged twenty, beloved daughter of Janet Anne and the late Harry Funge, passed away June 3 at her mother’s residence on Cox Street North-West Hell Allenton. She was in her early twenties and is mourned by family and friends. The notice provides personal details and location rather than broader context.
At the Ashburton County Council meeting a traffic report permitted traction engines crossing the Ashburton traffic bridge from 12 noon to 1 pm daily except Tuesdays and Saturdays, with fees set at £1 for traction engines with chaff-cutter and whare and 2s 6d for other machines. The by‑laws will be amended next meeting. The Mayfield school closes for scarlet fever and a magistrate’s court will be held at Methven Public Hall. A Timaru court note clarified impounded cattle damages. Other items include a county rate collection brief, aBirds’ heads payment advert, a Baring Square Club social, and discussions on rainmaking and possible Oamaru observatory funding.
The single handed bowling champion ship of Canterbury was won by Mr D Campbell and is now on display at Mr L and McClurgs shop in Burnett Street. Reports from Napier state Miss Spencer headmistress of Napier Girls High School has resigned. Timaru’s public library, opened yesterday by Mayor Mr J Craigie, M.P., cost £8000 funded by Andrew Carnegie, with a reading room and 70 periodicals. Mechanics Institute books to be absorbed and new books funded at £500 yearly.
The Ashburton Hospital Committee met to accept cook Miss M Jones's resignation and leave refilling to the chair. Government to abolish free hospital telephone. oxygen apparatus and donor Mr Studholme's 10s subscription noted. Strathmore Hospital sale of instruments discussed. ambulance shed tender £42 from Wy Reid approved. Accounts £194 2s 34d massed. visiting committee appointed for month. meeting adjourned.
Hospital committee discusses two incurable cases at Ashburton Hospital. Transfers to Tuarangi Home delayed due to lack of night staff and fit facilities. Letters from Master Frank H Knight and Mrs Harper note new wing not ready for incurables and August for admissions. Further Charitable Aid Board applications planned to secure two beds.
Government of Quebec demands pulp destined for the United States be manufactured into paper within Canada using Crown lands wood. Policy aims to curb export as U S forests deplete and Canada resists duty abolition. Also notes Zeppelin salute, Orleans riots, and Danton launch delays.
June 3 report from New York says a Philadelphia train strike left a policeman shot and many strikers beaten. About a hundred strikers were injured and five freight or passenger cars wrecked as black leg workers were dragged from units amid the turmoil.
London reports Mr John Burns president of the Local Government Board opened a Tuberculosis Exhibition at Whitechapel. He urged higher wages less drink less betting and more regular work as direct remedies. Suffragists were ejected for interruptions. The Board ordered notification of TB cases to poor law authorities. Ireland has used a movable exhibition with success.
King Edward attends Windsor Castle colours presentation to the Territorials on the 19th while New Zealand delegates appoint George Fenwick chair and W S Douglas secretary. He and Queen Alexandra host the Prince of Wales garden party at Marlborough House on the 7th and a Spithead naval review is planned for the 12th featuring 24 battleships and 48 destroyers in home waters under war training.
London June 3 The House of Commons has reassembled and the Budget dispute will likely run through October. The Government is arranging closure measures by compartments for all other major bills.
In Pretoria on June 3, both Houses in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony adopted the Constitution. Mr Fischer argued that British settlers were an asset, despite hardships, while Dr Hofmeyer’s acceptance of the invitation to return home signaled the collapse of anti-Union agitation and smooth passage for the South African Constitution.
R D Johnston announces a new stock of golf gear for the coming season including clubs bags and related items from leading makers to equip players for upcoming play.
A signed note from the Federation Clamber of Commerce at Durban reports a vote of 60 to 4 urging Natal's acceptance of the Constitution on June 3.
Public access to the Yildiz Palace and grounds is announced in Constantinople with mention of the Yildiz Palace events. The notice notes reception by Prosi and Assoc, and references a public opening at Tun a Bolin. The terse dispatch signals a ceremonial or civic opening and invites visitors.
Prince Kropotkin reports Russian prisons officially hold 90,000 but now house 181,000 inmates. The Duma rejected a bill to abolish capital punishment, arguing courts martial can order executions and the issue is outside the Duma's remit.
The Provincial Council at Khorassan protests the Shahs borrowing without parliamentary approval and declares that the people will not acknowledge the new debt.
London notes a speech by Mr John Burns at the National Liberal Club reporting 1300 fewer paupers in London than at February’s end and 1000 fewer than June 1908. He argued the decline suggested trade was reviving.
London reports an alarming British assessment of the Herero uprising in German East Africa. From 1906 to 1907 about 120,000 native men women and children are said to have fallen to war and famine in the famine year ending March 1907. The account notes the horrors may deter future hostilities under the protecting Power.
London dispatch reports the Kaiser will visit Finnish waters on the 17th for a three day stay. The surprise move carries political weight, with Prince Bulow and M Isvolsky expected to accompany the sovereigns.
Lord Roberts responds to Colonel Gosworth of the Salvation Army regarding Mr Deakin's idea of a Australia visit. He would be glad to meet the soldiers who fought under him in South Africa and sees value in universal military training, but says England must focus at home for now.
The National Coursing Association Waterloo Cup was won by Mr Bladen's Bulwark with Mr Keighery's Penfold Hy land runner up The Purs won by Messrs Taylor and Yates's Lie tenant Captain Weier's The P was runner up The late Primate estate valued for probate at £1561 Terrorists in Australia Melbourne June 3 Russian authority confirmed Australia has allowed a fair criminals The murderer Gapons lived in Melbourne and is in Paris Perilous passage Esther arrived from Hékianga Teakethy badly She encountered severe seas May 2 and 3 and leaked bulwarks damaged pumps four feet of water in the hold to harbour South Australia Mr Peake Acting Premier to form a ministry July one week to complete Victorian Parliament received June 10 40 am Ortona arrived with New Messrs Dutton Grubbers Pill Trotter Mrs Brown Bobbins Heather Dawson Miss Sher
An advertisement touts RHEUMO as a universal remedy for rheumatism gout lumbago sciatica and related pains. It claims many sufferers were permanently cured after trying the product, urging immediate purchase from chemists and vendors.
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