War Office calls tenders for canned beef and mutton
The War Office invites bids by September 16 for 300000 one pound tins of preserved beef and mutton and 150000 two pound tins.
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 08, 1907
Page
3
The War Office invites bids by September 16 for 300000 one pound tins of preserved beef and mutton and 150000 two pound tins.
The Mount Juyall Comstock Copper Company of Tasmania has been registered with a capital of £150,000.
Shipping update notes Miltiades replaces Ovoya on the voyage to Australia. The vessel Artivud-Athenie sails from Wellington via Kumara and Orari for Timaru and Terawhite for Wellington, with all movements recorded.
The London County team beat the New Zealanders 22 to 16 in a one rink bowls match.
Enthusiasm at the Methodist Conference meeting in Sydney saw a total collection of £2353. An anonymous donor pledged £100 a year for five years, boosting support for mission work.
A sequestration order was granted in the estate of Abraham and Maurice Myerson, merchants trading as the American Shirt Company and Phoenix Clothing Manufacturers, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud creditors. Petitioning creditors report liabilities over £25,000 and assets about £11,000, with the Myersons selling stock at auction below cost and no proper accounting in their books.
Mr Burnett Bauer a noted diamond merchant was found dead in his Modern Chambers Collinge Street office with a fractured skull. He died after removal to hospital. There were no signs of a struggle though the door was found ajar and a friend who saw him ten minutes earlier heard nothing suspicious.
Glass Dolls leads a trio of finishers with Laodannia in second and Lady Hast in third in the Epsom Oaks, a close contest recorded with final placings.
On June 8 at Ellerslie Auckland Racing Club concludes its Winter Meeting with fine weather and strong attendance. Results include Ladies Bracelet won by Rauparaha with Strommess second and Henry Havelock third. Finishes show Silica in the Famaki Steeplechase and Uenaku leading Nork Welter with Celtic second Loftus third. Dividends recorded for top placers.
In Napier on June 8, Mclachlan challenged Day to a race within twenty days for side wages of 45 pounds and a purse of 75 across distances of 100, 1380 and 206 yards.
NAVIER June 8 The Wharf Labourers Union resolves to support Al Slater's nomination as workers representative in the Arbitration Court. Twenty cases are set down for hearing at the Arbitration Court.
In a June 8 court session George Francia Henry was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for stealing 45-odd from a woman who handed it over for a money order. Henry Bowles admitted forging and uttering cheques and awaits sentence in the Supreme Court. A county brass band holds a special meeting Monday at 8 pm. A Auckland account recounts a tram car incident where a man bowed and sang along, the passenger misidentifying herself as a cariull. A Nebraska dairyman reports milk fat tests dropping from 9.3% to 4.1% after excitement and chases. a note on rheumatism remedy Rheumo. Advertisements for tailor-made costumes and Kalapoi Dress and Jacket Tweeds from Craighead and Berryman.
Friedlander Brothers report the sale of Air T. G1. Addis’s 804 acre farm at Ladimer to John Osborne at a satisfactory figure. They also report the sale of Mr W. Bege’s 156 acre Waterton farm to Mr J. Flanck at a seller-satisfactory price.
Friedlander Bros with My D Thomas and Pyne and Co Christchurch conducted the sale of G J F Palmer's Ruapuna estate near Christchurch. About 200 farmers attended as the 4481 acre sheep country subdivided. bids were brisk but below reserve. Lot 1 116 acres 9 per acre £9 10s started withdrawn at £10 15s. Lot 2 108 acres 30p started £9 10s withdrawn at £10 per acre. Lot 3 118 acres 8rd 3apno unclear. Lot 4 1000 acres started £8 and passed in at £8 10s per acre. Private treaty options offered.
Alessis Friedlander Bros Ltd offered on account of Mr A Edo properties at Hampstead with a frontage on Cambridge Street. Lot 1 containing about 2383 acres passed in at £195 per acre while Lot 2 withdrawn at £750. Mr H Stephenson sold one acre at Fairton for £16 per acre.
A strong attendance at the Farmers Co operative Association weekly sale offered a large entry of poultry pigs and produce. Prices listed cover poultry ducks pigs beef mutton lamb and root vegetables with per unit and per sack rates noted for purchasers and porkers and baconets among meats.
Mr H Stephenson reports a well attended ordinary weekly sale at Havelock Street Mart with a large entry of poultry pigs produce and fruit listed. Prices cover hens cockerels ducks geese pigs potatoes carrots swedes onions wheat apples and various meats with per unit and per sack rates.
Mrs. Thomas held an ordinary weekly sale with strong attendance and solid values. Horses included a brown draught gelding at 15 pounds and another draught at 35 pounds, a four-year-old harness mare at 25 pounds. Potatoes sold for 6 pence per seck and mutton by the carcase at 2 pence per pound, with sundries also at full market value.
Bishop Julius to administer confirmation at St Andrew s Tinwald and preach at Lagmhor and Timwald tomorrow. Farewell services announced at Salvation Army Barracks. Commanding Officers and families posted to Napier Brunnerton Ashburton. Adjutant Dawkins to Ashburton. Clarke pair to Ashburton arriving Wednesday. Local aid praised for barracks. Christchurch express collided with horse near Chertsey. rider injured. Det. Mellveney reports from Montevideo. Ashburton abattoir totals list stock slaughtered. Nurses debate favors women in care. male nurse deemed less capable. Captain Edwin notes weather outlook with northerly winds and a drop in barometer tonight.
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