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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 25, 1910
Page
2
The notice lists stock items such as Granite Grit Mixed Grit Shell Grit Laying Food Poultry Tonic Meat Meal and Brood Meal plus products like Chick Raiser Maize and two items named Insentide and Kil Ort Iraect for poultry care and feeding.
Saturday, June 26, 1910 reports public debate on the Pawelka sentence and the role of informed opinion versus mob feeling. Mayor Wilford rejects deputation demands after noting evidence gaps, urging measured justice and law. The issue accompanies local notices on Parliament opening, poultry prizes, water works, and upcoming lectures by Robert McNab.
William Hutchinson a Christchurch resident and racecourse tout was charged at the Ashburton Magistrate Court for stealing a totalisator ticket on Coroniform worth £3 1s at the Wetherby Hack handicap on June 24. He pleaded guilty to drunkenness but not guilty to theft. the bench convicted him of theft and discharged him for drunkenness, ordering a month’s imprisonment for the theft with no fine and to return the ticket to Walter Holloway.
The undersigned offers for sale a 420 acre Highbank area with a seven room dwelling and outbuildings. Securely fenced and subdivided with 100 acres wheat 40 oats and the rest in grass. 13 miles from School Church and Post Office near a sheep market and railway station. Rent 5a gd per acre with 10 percent discount for punctual payment. Full particulars on application.
The slaughtermen's agreement filed here sets an eight hour work day and four hours on Saturdays. It fixes pay for freezing sheep and lambs at 26s per 100, lists holidays including January 1 and Christmas Day, and outlines two additional days. Preference rules apply under the same conditions.
Truant Officer v Willie Welle senior fined 2s and costs for failing to send child to school. Same v David Stevens fined 2s and costs. Mother of an illegitimate child ordered to pay 7s weekly for maintenance. child committed to Christchurch Receiving Home. Mickle v Burt claim £3 3s. judgment by consent with costs. ONeill v ONeill claim £24 15s. judgment for £24 4s and costs 11s. Smith v Smith judgment summons £11 1s. order to pay 10s per month.
Mr F. D. Bathgate arrives as new manager of the Ashburton Dairy Company with his wife and family and begins duties. A Department of Agriculture official will inspect creameries at Hinds Anama Methven and Lowcliffe and the Ashburton central creamery site for prompt building. Local officials travel South and a Dunedin journalist returns. Frost records 15 degrees with thickening ice at Domain Lake. Some residents consider a patent rubber substitute and lime dusting benefits grain and pasture. Blackburne Smith & Co advertise crushed lime.
A BelalNes pupil Ernest Cobden slipped on frost at Longbeaely school yesterday and broke his left arm above the wrist. He received prompt first aid and medical treatment in town. the arm was set and he is recovering well. Our Rakaia correspondent notes a separate accident where an assistant driver on the Akthven train crushed his foot while moving the engine onto the main line. He was hospitalized after the incident.
The Baring Square Methodist Church choir met last evening with strong attendance. Conductor H A Hurophreys chaired in the absence of the president. Officers were reelected and balances approved with a small deficit. A social committee and various roles were filled, and retiring officers were thanked. Supper followed, provided by choir ladies.
At the No-license Convention in Wellington the morning session focused on the compact. A close division 76 for 60 against led to a joint committee to seek a working basis. Resolutions urged a separate special vote on dominion prohibition at the next general election and demand a bare majority for related amendments.
Sir J W Taverner and Canadian immigration experts back the Standard of Empire plan for Edward Memorial training farms in Britain to prepare boys for emigration to the colonies. The Rev Stephen Gwynne notes the Ashfield New South Wales farm school’s success as strong encouragement for the British effort.
A troop train on the Manzanillo line in Mexico broke loose and plunged down a steep gradient, smashing to piers. Thirty seven soldiers were killed and fifty injured in the crash reported June 24. The incident is described in dispatches received June 26.
A escalating heat wave with high humidity hits the Eastern States for the fourth day. New York reports eight deaths, Philadelphia fifteen, and Pittsburgh eight as hospitals run full and many sleep outdoors or in shelters.
Charlton confessed to striking his wife during a drunken quarrel and concealing the body in a trunk before disposing of it in the lake. He later weighted the trunk with stones and fled to Genoa. The case, adjourned for insanity defense, reports suggest tuberculosis. Italy seeks extradition.
Reuters reports that after the Pirus incident Greece offered to indemnify the damaged steamer used to remove a deserter. A Bucharest dispatch says Greeks in Piraeus boarded a Romanian mail boat carrying Princess Nicholas and looted it, which Athens denied, claiming rescue efforts for a Greek deserter. The Ottoman minister in Athens protested mistreatment of Turks aboard the vessel.
London dispatch from June 24 reports the Daily Mail correspondent in Bucharest contradicts claims that the Kaiser sent a telegram to the Crown Prince of Roumania about the Pires incident.
A brief report from the Missionary Congress in Edinburgh notes preparations under the Press Association copyright. Details are sparse as the dispatch arrives early morning with preliminary summaries of events and expected speakers.
Press Association reports rivalry over Egypt policy as Sir Arthur Grenfell Balfour contends Sir Ekion Gerst may be replaced by Sir A. Ardinge as minister to Belgium. The item frames the leak as a sign that Gerst’s policy is abandoned and a triumph for intrigue.
Three hundred fresh cholera cases are reported at Rastoff near Saint Petersburg. Officials blame the Don River water as trains overflow with terrified fugitives. Outlying districts declare they are dying like flies amid the crisis.
Emily Davidson was fined five pounds or a month in prison after breaking windows at the House of Lords in a bid to deliver a threatening message to the Premier. Militant suffragists protest the Premier's decision on the Woman Franchise Bill in London.
London report details a lawn tennis match where Wilding defeated Roitzheim in straight sets. The June affair includes a 6-1 6-? finish amid the heat with play continuing into the afternoon.
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