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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 06, 1907
Page
2
The Analyst confirms Violetta Skin Food is free from harmful substances and contains only ingredients beneficial to the skin. Report by A A Bickerton of Colonial Analysis, Canterbury, dated 14 May 1907, Christchurch.
Extensive land offers include 1800 acres with a 10 room dwelling, woolshed, stables, yards, and a sawmill plant. 775 acres with 200 acres grass. 2700 acres river flats of cultivated and sheep country. 1870 acres well watered with seven rooms, orchard and outbuildings. Prices range from £4 1s to £5 12s 6d per acre. Carrying capacities noted for flocks and herds.
Johnston's offers price cuts on Beyeles to 12 pounds 10 shillings from 16 pounds. Freewheels brakes oil outfits solutions carbide sardies and all other sun dried items discounted thirty percent.
Ephemeris lists sun rise and set times for June with daily values. It also gives moon phases including last quarter new moon first quarter and full moon along with apogee and perigee times.
The Ashburton Guardian laments speculative wheat trading by American rings that push up bread costs in New Zealand. It cites Mr Millar and calls for a Board of Commerce to curb trusts and protect the public from inflated prices.
A general light rain refreshed area fields this morning while farmers with wheat stocks sold at high prices. Crown Lands Commissioner Gold Smith visited Ashburton and Winchmore to inspect a Crown section transfer and potential protective works. Major topics at local events included band leadership concerns and a US visitor noting Wellington’s brisk, hawk-like energy. Otago Winter Show awards went to Mrs McDowell for butter. Milking machine sales surge with many plants in use and orders rising. R D Johnston’s Cycle Sale advertised 30 percent discounts on bikes.
Weather notes predict southerly winds and a front tonight while a Timaru wheat sale completes at 4s 4d. Reports mention Ashburton branch plans for the Independent Order of Rechabites, local rainfall totals, debts for water supply, and lamb and cattle sales at Addington market. Also covered are lodge meetings, juror accommodations plans in Chicago, zoo of public notices, and Sander and Sons legal action over counterfeit Eucalyptus extract.
The Ashburton Winter Show presents entries across cattle sheep pot lambs dogs butter bacon fruit honey bread poultry grain and garden produce totaling 2075 diesel units and showing an increase of over 100 from last year.
The fifth annual general meeting of the Ashburton County Brass Band reported a credit balance of £298 6d and liabilities of £801 10s 5d. The year saw 89 public functions with 17 free services. receipts fell to £109 from £117. The band praised members, noted attendance issues at practices, and thanked supporters including Borough Council and auditor H. H. Yooks. Officers were elected. secretary C. Thomas received £553 honorarium, caretaker R. Morris £2. social hour featured musical contributions.
The American visible wheat supply reaches 71 225 000 bushels. In Dunedin the wheat market's decline of about 3d per bushel pushes flour price down to £10 15s per ton for sacks, a 10s drop. Lawrence bakers raise loaf price from 4 1 2d to 6d cash and 7d to 3¼d booked.
The New Zealand Flourmillers Co operative Association reduced flour by 10s per ton. Sacks priced at £10 10s per ton and various bag sizes published. May 13 price stood at £8 10s per ton in sacks, then rose, with quotations reaching £11 by May 30. Wheat prices spiked from 8s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel, then eased to 4s. Millar urged cautious measures, suggesting export duties if profits seemed undue, while noting ample wheat supply and limited local demand.
The text presents distorted lines about mankind’s ailments and a claim that a product named Great Peppermint from Woods’ Abbey Boot Polish serves as a cure and leather polish. It reads like a garbled advertisement or misOCR of an old satirical notice.
Capetown June 5 Premier Dr Jameson hails Hofmeyer speech at Wellington as epoch making and says Federation is closer. He notes Dutch distrust fading and British cooperation with the Watch for Wadera tion. He backs English as official tongue for Victorian reasons, while noting potential compromise.
In the House of Commons Mr Winston Churchill denied any bargain with Mr Botha over repatriation of coolies in exchange for an Imperial guarantee of a five million loan. He said the Transvaal could handle repatriation within constitutional limits and noted the Cabinet aimed to credit the Transvaal with independence from local interests. Radicals cheered the announcement.
New York June 5 An American revenue cutter seized the British schooner Charlotte Cox for illegal sealing in Alaskan waters. The vessel carried seventy seven sealskins aboard.
Colonial Sugar Company reports Sydney and Byndney notices of a capital increase by 15 000 new shares at £20 each to raise paid up capital to £2 500 000. £5 per share paid from profit and loss transfer £78 000 with £15 per share balance from shareholders. Shares issued 8 new to 22 old with payments from Oct 1907 to Oct 1908.
The schooner Stanley was sold to a Napier syndicate for service on the New Zealand coast.
The vessel The Rona faced extreme seas and was forced to jettison 80 000 feet of lamber deck cargo to lighten the ship and ride out the tempest.
Dunedin June 6 The City Council has appointed Mr Stark formerly engineer for Waipori Electric Company acting electrical city engineer at a salary of 700 pounds per year.
Dunedin June 6 The Roxburgh Lawrence Railway League plans to press the Government to include 100000 pounds on the Estimates for extending the line.
The proposal to build a technical school in memory of the late Mr Seddon attracts strong backing. The Borough Council allocates 100 pounds and a single day of canvassing yields over 400 pounds, including 25 pounds from the Mayor and 12 pounds 10 shillings from his wife.
The Otago Farmers Union Mutual Fire Insurance Association held its second annual meeting in Dunedin. The year ended March 31 saw insurance holdings rise to £106,343 from £79,478, representing 350 policies, with reduced reinsurance and a notable rate cut. Losses were £6 6s 8d, fixed payments £538 5s 1d, and the reserve stood at £112 2s 2d, with £201 10s 0d in profit and loss, £200 to reserve. The chairman noted £400 added to new business since the report, and directors may rotate fewer seats per year. A proposal to attend a mutuals conference in Christchurch was approved to discuss re-insurance and rate standardisation.
The Otago Centre of the New Zealand Athletic Union held an exhaustive inquiry into the Day-McLachlan race. The executive unanimously resolved that runners were not involved in any collusion and the match was contested on its merits.
The Minister of Lands in Wellington rejects claims that flax fields are rapidly depleted by exports. A few roots may be sent to the New Hebrides and elsewhere, but greater harm comes from careless owners letting cattle roam the fields. The Agricultural Department continues experiments to boost the industry.
WarChildren to Hocking Cough at night Woods' Great Peppermint Cre.
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