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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 18, 1907
Page
2
Wed June 19 notice for Continent of Europe and United Kingdom routes via Monte Video and Tenerife to connect with gainers due London August 2. Trade details show a rate of 9.45 per.
In loving memory of our dear Mother Resreca Endort who died June 18 1908. The years will slowly come and go but your place will never fill. Oh loving wife and mother dear in death we love thee still. For many years our family chain was gently linked together but one link is gone forever. Inserted by her Loving Husband and Family.
Waterloo anniversary marked and Constable Storey farewelled at Orange Hall. A. O. Foresters Court Ashburton officers chosen. receipts £80. Magistrate fines Margaret Andrews £10 for selling liquor in a no-license district. Ashburton Pigeon Flying Club race results. Meat and butter trade notes and coastal England meat demand. Gisborne Anglican Jubilee fund tally £584. Britt Nelson film show in Ashburton with world championship fight recap. Timaru drainage report and North Harcourt lighting plan. Reverend Wilson condemns flour trust and high bread prices. Comparative alcohol costs per person in England Scotland. Southland land values steady amid active farm property market. Campbell’s farm sale at £16 10s per acre reported.
The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company sues the Auckland Harbour Board in a damages case arising from the 1906 Calliope Dock incident when the Mamari dipped and the dock blocks collapsed. Plaintiffs say officials gave no dock condition information to the captain and blame weak, poorly designed blocks. Hearing before Justice Denniston and a special jury is under way. expected to last a week.
Roll up and secure one of the bar rains at R. D. Johnston's Cycle Sale featuring new and second hand bicycles and all bicycle accessories at a 30 percent reduction. Wonds' Great Peppermint Cure for Colds and Coughs priced at 1s 6d and 6d.
At a council meeting the mayor reported a ratepayers meeting supported exchanging the Borough Reserve in Wills Street for North Canterbury Education Board school reserves. The move would be put to a ratepayer poll, cost about £6, and the council would hold rents until school construction begins.
The oil launch fire killed three Maoris when a lantern was dropped. Rene Tewhetu tried to put out the blaze with his coat while Mohane and Apera hama Tewheta drowned. Mobi and Mrs Renata also perished. eleven aboard and some saved. The Lily collision with Baroonu caused further danger.
After enquiry the Northern Steamship Company manager says three persons were drowned in the Kia Ora wreck. The Marine Superintendent at Auckland says the crew have arrived destitute and the Shipwreck Relief Society will grant £3 per man for clothing.
Survivors arriving at Kawhia report scanty clothing and serious injuries. The second engineer Lester suffered a broken right foot, chief engineer Baggstrom is severely bruised from being caught in rigging and dragged during the sinking. Passenger Part ridge lost a leg, injured back and internal wounds. Cox, 76, badly cut face and exposed to hardship.
Earthquake shocks were felt around Stromboli and nearby Gibraltar in a north to south path, with the tremors recorded from Rome on June 17. The seismic activity was reported as widespread across the region.
Report to Ashburton Borough Council examines expenditure on new permanent works and plant for Ashburton Gas Coal and Coke Company Limited from 1904 to 1907. It reviews Plant and Buildings and Meter accounts, notes depreciation disputes, and records council and company accountants' conclusions and requests for further reply from the Gas Company.
Sir Joseph Ward and Lady Ward arrived in Melbourne and attended a lunch in his honour hosted by Acting Prime Minister Sir John Forrest. Ward praised Mr Deakin's work at the Colonial Conference during the address.
An antiquated advertisement pitch promotes RHECGMO and RHEUMO as cures for rheumatism gout sciatica and lumbago claiming to remove uric acid from the blood. It lists prices and urges a trial plus mentions Jas Mellor's Boat Store Ashburton and Woods Peppermint Cure for children.
London reports Jackson has definitively declined the cricket team captaincy for the upcoming tour to Australia. Sydney notes the Cricket Association elected Mr Carruthers as president and decided to unconditionally remove the disqualification on suspended players.
The New South Wales Rugby team is kept together for the Queensland tour after the second New Zealand test. The squad may base itself at a seaside resort while in Queensland.
At the Olympia Horse Show six nations earned prizes. England took sixteen trophies and ninety-one first prizes, the United States won two and fourteen prizes respectively, with Canada Holland and Belgium also receiving awards.
Madrid and Paris report mutual guarantees to maintain the status quo in Mediterranean and Atlantic areas of direct interest. The notes lack military alliance or convention, while Britain and Spain issued parallel assurances to protect mutual interests. Pichon calls the Franco Spanish arrangement a peace guarantee and a safeguard for communications with possessions.
The Russian czar announces a manifesto defending October 40 rights and the fundamental laws. He argues Parliament is new and imperfect, and that the Duma must be truly Russian in spirit. The czar vows to complete reform with the Senate to publish a new electoral law.
The dissolution of the Duma was quietly received in St Petersburg where the city is full of troops and press criticism is prohibited. Nine accused deputies have been arrested and many more arrests occur in Warsaw. The Council of the Empire was prorogued until November.
Reports say sailors on two warships at Tendra Island plotted to overthrow officers and seize the squadron under Admiral Tsiwinsky, but officers blocked the plan. Street fighting in Sevastopol followed, accelerating the Duma’s dissolution. Colonel Guessekowsky, deputy commander of Sevastopol harbour, was assassinated. the killer has been arrested.
Odessa correspondent for the Daily Express says Sevastopol reports the Black Sea squadron temporarily out of commission with gun locks removed Seven hundred seamen and gunners have been arrested The English press views the position as pessimistic
The next Duma will have 442 members with landlords gaining class suffrage and peasant electorates shrinking. Poland Caucasus and Siberia representation cut by half. Direct city elections with higher property tests. Kasan Charkoff Saratoff disfranchised. Sixteen accused deputies have escaped.
In Saint Petersburg on Saturday M Purishkevitch sparked a furor in the Duma by declaring that the Social Democrats should be sent to the scaffold. The remark drew immediate condemnation from other deputies and heightened tensions in the chamber.
M Nelidoff the Russian delegate is elected President of the Peace Convention. He notes growing willingness to use arbitration but warns against excessive ambition saying nations share human flaws and that courts of justice may fail to prevent quarrels. He cites conciliation progress and gentler manners as aids.
On June 17 three thousand people attended the Anti Militarist Demonstration in Tus Hacus. Socialist leader M Niew wenhiaa called the Hague Convention a comedy of Pesca and labeled the convener the antagonist of peace for dissolving the Duma as the Peace Conference opened. Other Socialists spoke.
Damaged OCR fragment references Sovereigns and Abbey Distribution and an exchange involving Caupone. No clear event, date, or entities other than these appear readable.
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