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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 21, 1909
Page
4
An advertisement touts imported English suitings offering a wide range of styles. It invites customers to select a favored cut for immediate fashion relevance and long wear, highlighting high quality and generous choice.
Owner instructs immediate sale of 34 acres with rass and clover, Algerian oats, orchard and garden, drying ground, and a well-built house with outbuildings. Windmill, good water supply, suitable for a retired farmer or division into building sites. Easy terms. call for particulars.
An old advertisement touts Lane's Emulsion for dry hacking coughs. It claims a teaspoonful hourly eases throat and lung irritation, with dose adjustments and a note on flavor by mixing with cold water. Sold everywhere in 4/6 and 2/6.
Correspondence from W T Kingston and Wakare resident Wim Nosworthy reports that the Veterinary School in Dunedin is near establishment. The council plans a first year of veterinary study this year with eventual full degree offerings and a new school building soon.
Rev W Slade of Dunedin Central Mission spoke at Ashburton on the need for outside help to finance a new building. He outlined a plan for a hall seating 3800 to 4000, costing about £9000, with ground obligations and rental options. He urged parishioners, including Presbyterians, to contribute, noting a generous £10 gift from a hairdresser and stressing moral aims over mere money.
Discussion among Canterbury and Argentine meat firms questions a Daily Mail claim the Beef Trust seeks to control supplies in Australia and New Zealand. Experts warn the Trust faces resistance buying New Zealand outfits and would need a centralized Home office to counter fragmented freezing works.
The New York Sun reports bribes up to £100 for positions on U S Government transport vessels. The piece notes rampant gambling and that whisky and morphine are freely sold to soldiers by stewards aboard ships.
In Blenheim a late night blaze destroyed a five room cottage owned by J J Wensley and occupied by G Malloy with total insured value of about mul £160 house policy. In Dunedin a coal yard fire at John Mill’s store involved 600 tons of Blackball coal buried under joists, causing wall collapse and near 150 pounds damage.
In Hastings on June 19 the Mayoress led a large ladies meeting with addresses by Colonel Goring and Sir William Russell. The gathering adopted a resolution urging that no defence system is satisfactory without universal military training.
A Parliamentary return details 1908-09 expenditures on aerial navigation in Germany France Austria Hungary and Britain. Germany led with 998,781 total, mostly from subscriptions. Britain spent 5,270 on dirigibles and airplanes. France 47,700 on balloon units. Austria-Hungary 85,800 including field corps and equipment.
An April 19 commentary quotes Mr Patten disputing Mr Wilson of Washington over crop statistics. Patten says his grain buyers know where every bushel is and ridicules the March 1 report as a joke, accusing officials of lacking expertise.
A local notice advertises George Davies suit house in Colombo Street offering measured garments from Italian cloth with expert cutting. It contrasts Davies with cheaper imitators, promises high quality made to measure and money back guarantees, and cites winter materials and New Zealand reach.
Mr G Pritchard of Lyndhurst credits Doan's Backache Kidney Pills with curing years of backache after suffering severe pain that made work impossible. He praises the remedy and says he will keep a box in the house. The ad notes the pills cost 3s per box, six boxes 1s 6d, and urges buy from Foster-McClellan Co. Sydney and to be sure you get Doan's.
Billy the sheep aged eight died near Leicester after serving as stalking horse for Mr G Stretton while rabbits were shot. In North Auckland a kauri stick for a ship's mast reached eighty feet in length and was declared flawless.
Advertisement notes a supposed influenza remedy, Wood's Great Peppermint Cure, offered at two fixed prices 1s 6d and 2s 6d. The tone implies a value claim and sales pitch typical of period advertisements for patent medicines.
Mr A. R. Barclay spoke on The True Story of Jack Cade before the Socialist party, arguing that historical distortions miscast Wat Tyler and Cade. He cited Sir John Cheyne, the Kent rising, and Cade as a skilled leader with noble aims, noting pardons granted then revoked and Cade’s death in battle.
Professor Lombroso cites the Amsterdam Jewish Lunatic Asylum where no insanity cases stem from alcohol and notes Jews widely avoid drunkenness. London observers credit temperance as aiding Jewish industry and a disciplined character contributing to social success and future development.
A government bill to tax bachelors and spinsters at four times the rate for married people was introduced in the Danish Parliament. Mutiny aboard the St. Louis occurred at Toulon over dinner, with crew throwing overboard meat and dining utensils. American fruit growers pursue seedless persimmons using North China cuttings after years of effort.
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