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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 17, 1902
Page
3
A small attendance at Tinwald yards produced a dragging sale with fair entries. Prices realised: Fat cattle cows 5 73 6d to 6 10s, stores dairy cows 3 83, calves 20s, yearlings 2 ig to 2 6d, fat sheep crossbred ewes 5 to 18s, fat lambs 0s to 12s 4d, store sheep 78 16d to 364, crossbred ewes in lamb 68 6d to 10s.
Coronation celebrations committee outlines day program while Sir Joseph Ward's party passes through Ashburton. Notices cover railway meetings, decorations, a Lowcliffe bachelor ball, sheep market consignments, a Westport peace scene, a Dunedin cow derailment, a bicycle collision, and a memorial service with Sister Elinor.
A correspondent from Ashburton challenges claims about education reserves funding for high and primary schools. He presents 1899 figures showing higher per pupil costs and better pupil–teacher ratios for high schools, argues mass education is underfunded, and links current policy to social decline and future dependence on state care. He cites gaol and industrial school data to argue timely reform.
The piece argues that real progress rests on separating noble qualities from war and abolishing wholesale murder. It cites racial hatreds distrust among nations and the worship of war as obstacles. It envisions human advancement when the war drum silences and morality leads.
The Ashburton community sees calls to nominate businesses on Coronation Day and notices a meeting of the Ashburton Acclimatisation Society at Devane's Hotel to revise rules. Also announced are a procession plan for tradesmen, trooper Revell’s hospital transfer, and a postponed A. and P. Association meeting due to Mr Donald Williamson’s death.
Pretoria dispatch notes Boers show fatigue and wary loyalty amid scarce food and privations. Surrender figures top 16 500 with units named from Bloemfontein Brandfort Wakkerstroom and Utrecht while Capetown petitions Press cites relief drives and hunger in the Orange Free State and Cape Colony.
The King and Queen planned a review of 40,000 troops at Aldershot today but a court circular says the King cannot leave his rooms due to a chill and lumbago. Sir F Laking was summoned and prescribed rest. The King grew better by evening and may attend the review. rain prevented his attendance. The Queen and Prince and Princess of Wales visited the camp hospital.
Interprovincial telegraph notes as Japanese warships Hiyes and Kongo sail to Suva. Officers, crews, and town officials bid good voyage, with Captain Iwasaki thanking Palmerston North authorities for a pleasant port stay.
Buenos Ayres moves life stock to the Cape with freight at five pounds per bullock and ten euros per sheep. Argentina plans special transports as it seeks to monopolise Cape trade. Reeves notes low freights but not imminent Cape threat. Debate centers on costs, on-board provisions, and Cape meat competition with New Zealand frozen products. No immediate cause for alarm is seen.
Mr D Thomas offers 400 two four and six tooth forward wethers at the Methuen yards on Thursday. The New Zealand Loan Company sells at High Bank on Friday the 20th the live and dead stock of Robert Donald. Dates shifted from Thursday the 19th to Friday the 20th. Benevolent Trustees grant coal rent on Coronation Day. Communion cups used at St Stephen’s Church. Hastings stock sale reports twenty four cows averaging £8 10s top £16. Five offenders nabbed for dirty yards in Dunedin. Ashburton public warned of an evening sale. Julia Eyton to sing “The dream of Paradise” and “Behold me standing at the door.” Echo Lake crater near Roatomahana may erupt. Roatomahana crater is very hot and 106ft above Waimanga. London police pursue action against a sweet shop keeper over automatic machines likely breaching Lottery Act. Similar devices may exist in pubs and shops nationwide.
A former South African official, H H Stephens, now Director of Supplies for the War Department in the Southern Transvaal, outlines routes and ports for migrants and highlights customs unions, port preferences for colonies, and the high cost of living. He warns against unprepared emigration, notes reliance on African labor, and cautions about an impending labor shortage as skilled workers migrate.
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