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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 07, 1910
Page
2
EG announces a new bakery in Methven and surrounding districts to complete by Tuesday June 7 1910. A first class baker will supply bread hot pies Saturdays and small goods with catering offered. They promise living entire satisfaction and market prime quality beef mutton pork sausages bacon.
A compact real estate notice offers 65 acres of crop land plus near 2 acres of first class land with a six room house. The property adjoins Mr McKenzie's land and is close to a school and railway station. ideal for a comfortable family home.
H S Gardner promotes a Grand Selection of gent's fine footwear in bovine, minpire, box and French calf leathers with Goodyear welted stitched machine sewn and riveted options. Also ladies' shoes, children's footwear, felts and rubbers. Address Gardner's Somerset Buildings Burnett Street.
Mr T. E. Taylor M.P. telegrammed Sir Joseph Ward protesting the scheme to import boy labour while a North Island farmer reports changes in land use and lower stocking rates due to deforestation and pasture depletion. The item also notes butter pasteurisation gains, gas price changes in Invercargill, and local social and business notices.
Mr F Ferriman reports the sale of port Lot 10 off Princes Street to Mr 5 Cassey. The State Advances Board rejects Buller County Council loan applications for two £8000 sums. A General Manager denies Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corp absorption. Avonor Chocolate Dandy wins at Dunedin Panel Club show. Auckland Electric Tramways pays £3592 to the City for 1909 profits. Qamara district farmers report mild weather and scarce feed while stock mortality risks rise with cold. Health act discussion urges a health officer to inspect farm yards and curb disease spread. Coal buyers urged to contact Mount Somers Coal Co for delivered prices.
The fortnightly meeting of A.O.F. Lodge No. 6729 was held in the Orange Hall with fair attendance. Bro Kerr P.C.R. chaired. A small sick pay list was passed for payment. A card journey for the shield followed between Hibernian Society and Foresters, won by the Foresters by six points.
Wellington reports a forwarding circular from Colonel Robin Chief of the General Staff notes Defence Act amendments may follow Lord Kitchener proposals. It directs district officers to recruit physically fit men below twenty three to maintain unit strength and delay increases until permanent staff handles renumbering and reorganisation.
United Press notes Henry Frick purchased Rembrandt The Polish Rider for £60000 to be shown at Carfax Gallery. Also reports Boy Scouts movement growing toward half a million members by 1911 and Wickersham moves to dissolve the American Sugar Trust. A Berlin powder mill blown by lightning injures nearby homes. Sir Robert Finlay opens Newfoundland fisheries case in The Hague. Sir G Reid occupies Sir H Heaton’s Eaton Square home as Heaton embarks on a long voyage.
The Mayor of Whitehaven acknowledged a contribution of £1000 from New Zealand to the disaster fund. He called the gift kindly and generous and noted the distant country drawing nearer through shared suffering.
Ramsay MacDonald told Whitefield Tabernacle that Germany leads England in progress due to trained brains and science. He urged Britons to study German philosophers and poets to understand German unity and strength. He cited a German worker who said Germans fear war due to internal elements.
Industrial dispute in Yorkshire mills as seventy woollen plants face unrest. Settlers and williers plan to tender notices on the 16th unless wages and working conditions improve, warning 20 000 workers could be idle if a strike ensues.
The National Union of Women Suffrage Societies will back the Con ciliation Committee's Bill, signaling backing from a major reform group in Britain. The move comes as political efforts press for expanded voting rights and legislative change amid ongoing debates.
King George and Queen Mary welcomed the bluejackets who bore Erie Edwards’s coffin to Windsor at Marlborough House. Officers received the fourth-class Vicerian Order badges and Victorian medals for the men. The procession formed an open square as the King spoke and handed the parade carriage to the Navy. Queen Alexandra reviewed the bluejackets at Buckingham Palace.
The St Petersburg police say Dr Patchenko confessed to injecting a vegetable poison into Count Bonturlin at Count Lyassy's urging. The case ties to bribery, a cholera outbreak cover story, and a pattern of alleged murders for estate heirs.
A Labour Department circular on immigration of boys aged fifteen to nineteen for farming work in country districts is discussed and criticised in city circles. Prominent men warn the plan could replace adult key labor if enacted, as government enquiries into the scheme proceed.
A thick coastal fog persisted overnight in Christchurch causing travel disruption. The Magic from Wellington reached port at 10 20 am and missed the first express south. By midday the fog showed signs of lifting but remained dense.
The turbine steamer Maheno which left Sydney last Wednesday at 2 p.m. failed to arrive in Auckland on time. A telegram from Cape Brett at 4.30 p.m. stated she passed there, and she is expected to reach port around midnight. Lord Plunket’s Sydney departure is postponed to tomorrow night.
In a gaol at Chernvkov three condemned murderers drawn from a death sentence planed a suicide pact. They chose one man by lot to strangle his companions and then end his own life. The selected man killed the others but refused to commit suicide himself.
London June 6 The Manchester Guardian attacks Conservative papers for falling into Roosevelt's pitfall and sacrificing Sir Eldon Gorst to his dicta. Gorst’s only offence was seeking a middle course between Egyptian Nationalists and those who want Egypt treated as a reconquered province.
The article states that nearly all land benefits from lime dressing for grain, root and grass crops. It notes lime is now supplied ready for spreading at low cost and gives contact for full particulars to Blackburne Smithyend Co. Manchester Street, Cirianothreh.
Readable ad copy touts ROCKET and Nature's Embrocation claiming eucalyptus oil as a premier product. Distinctive branding notes from a Melbourne or Australia origin with colloquial emphasis on quality and origin.
Melbourne reports King George as Prince of Wales wishing to keep the Colonel-in-Chiefship of the Australian Light Horse Regiment. Labour Congress in Perth backs reform, land value taxes, referendums, and the right to work. Tattersallis Lottery proposal sent to Mr Fisher. he dismisses it as a distraction. Sydney notes heavy coastal weather with ships sheltering. Brisbane records arrival of 237 German immigrants, including 128 children. Coleraine church service ends early due to laughing jackasses on the roof.
Mr Hedley, president of the Linnean Society, reports a submarine peak 960 fathoms deep and 46 miles from Bondi. Indications point to an extinct volcano once high above the sea, now sunk. Discovery traced through volcanic dykes on Admiralty charts.
In Sydney, a large portion of St. Johns parishioners rebel against the new rector appointment. They protested the nominators actions and vowed passive resistance by withholding all monetary and personal support. A prior report noted a dramatic St. James scene where the Primate spoke on vestment disputes tied to the rector choice.
The Methodist Conference resolved to ask district Synods to consider rearranging ministers allowances due to higher living costs. Rev. J. B. Gibson will transfer from New Zealand to New South Wales and Rev. Mr Hay from Australia to New Zealand.
A blast at Miramar Harbour Board reclamation work caused a later rock fall burying John Wilson and James Phillips. Forty rescuers worked, reduced to twenty as danger limited operations. Wilson was rescued after four hours with a badly broken leg, Phillips remained missing and feared dead. both are married men.
Wellington reports a large gang removing earth and rock after a cutting at Miramar. The body of Jamey Phillips was found under heavy beams. John Wilson, with a leg fracture, is recovering in hospital. Deceased leaves a widow and three children. Rescue work expected to continue for about three hours.
An old advertising verse touts Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for chronic chest complaints. The poem claims a curate and others were cured and promotes the product price of 1 Guinea and 9s 6d.
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