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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 22, 1912
Page
6
A column notes Jupiter shines brilliantly for stargazers and its four moons shift positions within a single night. It describes the red spot as a vast, floating island and explains Jupiter’s long year, short day, and immense size compared to Earth. It adds remarks on gravity, lighting, and immigration fashions.
The article notes Welsh Patagonian emigrants heading to Victoria via England, from the Chubut colony founded ~46 years ago. About 350 settled in Saskatchewan a decade ago and prosper. Mr Owen Jones, who organized the Canada migration, also spearheaded Australian plans and visited New Zealand. The Patagonian pull is overpopulation in a productive irrigation valley of about four thousand people.
A London firm unveiled a fully electric kitchen in the borough of St Marylebone for cooking staff luncheons. It handles 350 to 400 meals daily with a capacity of 800, supplied entirely by electricity at three farthings per unit. The Times reports lower costs than coal or gas and notes cleanliness and seven months of satisfactory operation.
Today marks anniversaries for Machiavelli Florentine statesman born 1469 death 1527 Bishop Fisher executed 1635 Mazzini born 1805 H M S Victoria sinking 1893 Rosebery resignation 1895 Queen Victoria jubilee 1897 Stout appointed Chief Justice 1899 Josephine born 1763 Akenside died 1770 Fox death 1898 Edward Prince of Wales born 1894 plus Tattan of Plassey 1757 and other items.
Poem fragment notes worries of sorrow and renewal with lines on spring and blue skies. Mentions Meyer and a departed person, and references walking under starlight until the sun rises. The text blends hopeful imagery with personal loss in a dated poetic voice.
A brief excerpt from British Weekly reflects on memory, faith, and readiness with poetic urging to keep true and hopeful for what lies ahead as the best remains unseen. The lines contemplate enduring love and divine acknowledgment beyond mortal memory.
A humorous verse about lovers and parents questioning marriage, with lines labeled by relation such as AIS HIS FATHER S MOTHER and TEA MOTITER meaning. The speaker wonders if the romance is right, if families approve, and what wedding details will cost or require.
News on the planned union of the Methodist Church and the Primitive Methodist Church in New Zealand. Negotiations proceed after joint committees formulate a union basis and votes in both churches show strong approval with a target of a 1913 merger and a single nationwide conference. The unified church would be The Methodist Church of New Zealand with about 22 000 members and 100 000 adherents.
A concert for the St Andrew's Church Debt Extinction Fund is arranged by Mrs John Forrester and will be held at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday evening. Contributors include Mesdames Hall and Chapman Miss Claridge and Messrs Gardner Anderson Claridge Humphreys Tucker McDonald Freeman. Four choir members will sing two part songs and Mrs Forrester will perform Weber Invitation a la Valse.
St Andrew's Young Men's Bible Classes hosted a social in the Masonic Hall last evening presided by Rev G B Inglis. The event featured parlour games and competitions won by Miss Borthwick Eva Stewart and Mr W Thomas. The program included pianoforte solos duets recitations and a group song ending with Auld Lang Syne.
A Sunday School concert at Oddfellows Hall Tinwald raised funds for St Andrew's Sunday School prize pool. The program featured a cantata Soot and the Fairies and items by scholars including violin solos recitations and songs led by Miss Blake Meta Wilson Burns and Master George Soul in front of a crowded audience.
A correspondent cites an 1859 Hawke's Bay Herald advertisement announcing a 6d loaf price and a pledge by David Caravell and Thomas Taylor. The notice lists woollen goods from Roslyn Worsted and Woollen Mills including blankets and undergarments, reflecting rising costs and demand.
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