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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 27, 1906
Page
2
Residential property of Mr Arthur Hean comprising acres of land with garden and orchard and a five room dwelling house with scullery and modern fittings. Includes good building site adjoining shore with water race through property. Could be sold in one or two lots with immediate possession and favorable terms. Full particulars on application to FL FERRIMAN.
BR A Bennett drew a section on Waitaki Settlement and asks to sell one acre with a four room dwelling and the goodwill lease of 16 acres of railway reserve near the property. Price 2300 to secure a quick sale as Bennett moves to a new farm.
A sale advertised by Bry Ferguson on behalf of Mr James Porter offers 5 acres of First Class land with a complete nursery including stock, sheds, water supply, and a dwelling in Allenton Ashburton. Also 10 more acres with a cottage and outbuildings, plus 74 acres near Allenton School ready for cropping or subdivision. Price and full particulars available from Porter.
District Agent Ferguson announces readiness to accept proposals on live stock with large limits. For full particulars and premium, do not write. contact Ferguson, Land and Estate Agent.
The next best despatch for the United Kingdom leaves Ashourton on July 3 and is due in London on August 4.
Ephemeris shows sun rise and set times, moon phases, and key lunar events for July. Includes full moon at 6 58 pm, last quarter at 9 43 pm, new moon at 4 32 am, first quarter at 7 20 am, perigee 4 11 pm, apogee 16 11 30 pm, with multiple daily rise and set entries.
Quotations list for wheat flour oats maize and related products from Manitoba Tasmanian Algerian and Cape markets. Prices range from 0 6d for Tasmanian heavy milling to 3s 10d for oats Algerian white and barley figures also noted.
Yorkshires Insurance Co arrange agent services through Tam to provide live stock fire accident sickness employers liability mortgage indemnity and other risks. Ferguson, land and habitat agent, listed as contact for coverage.
The owner has retired and offers 1475 acres with dwelling, stables, woolshed, sheds, yards, piggery, and sheep dip. All well subdivided and watered, 6 miles from Geraldine and 9 from Orar. Frige feasible and terms suitable. Fee tail particulars and terms apply BR Y Ferguson, Land and Estate Agent.
Since 1899 the New Zealand Institute of Journalists has pressed for libel law amendments to align with England. The movement faces limited parliamentary support and a shortened session but seeks privileged reporting, consolidated actions, and court access protections for press coverage.
An enthusiastic endorsement from Mr FD Peeling of the Temperance Hotel in Eketahuna asserts Rheumo cures gout and rheumatism quickly. He reports no gout trouble since using it and urges a trial, noting a bottle price of 25 Gd and 4s 6d. The ad also markets Cold and Influenza remedies with stated bottle prices.
Two Rotorua residents, Messrs Mason and Lynds, went pigeon shooting Sunday and became lost in the bush. Exposed to rain and cold all night, a search party found them Monday with no serious harm, returning home.
Public meetings set for the St John Ambulance Association in the library upper room at 7 30 p m and a Gan Club gathering in the Masonic Hall B weloak. Christchurch libel suit news, Timaru coal merchants form an association, early lambs spotted, and a £70 Timaru Gar Club sweepstake planned. Earthquake tremor felt in Rotorua. Mr R McNab L MLH LR to sail home on the Vancouver mail steamer, due in Wellington by July 24. A Dundee shopkeeper fined for selling toy pistols to boys. Trout eggs hatched at Hakataramei to be sent to West Coast Masterton and Taranaki. Government labour agent urges North Island main trunk railway navvies. South express delayed by goods-train mishap near Oamaru. Christchurch cycles surge at Cranmer Square show more than 500 stored. Wellington EV Churches urge action against suggestive postcards. Tasmania potatoes sold to New South Wales at 10s per sack while farm produce prices rise. Gisborne loan conference proposes 250 000 for district works including light railway Tahora and harbour works. Theft at Christchurch railway station after a fatal accident, purse and documents stolen. Seddon considered state freezing for meat and shipping. Manawatu lands yield crops for 20 30 years, some fields cropped for condition. Japanese workers paid 7d to 10d daily. printers poorest at 4s weekly. New York introduces noiseless choir at church services using stairs and surplices.
Desatine Society reports a large attendance as Mr Osborn presided. The Anthelia Society declined an interclub debate invitation. Leaders were appointed for a Thursday debate on whether the State should acquire the oil industry of the colony. The affirmative won by one vote after a heated discussion. An auction at the Inward Yards featured fat calves sold around 143 11d with bids rising to Ilhard, yielding a tidy dividend for the seller.
The schedule lists Hakatere Cub players for an upcoming Thursday match at Springburn Borough School ground and Southern Cross 3rd Grade squad set to face High School. Senior team selections for Old Boys include F Clark Culverhouse W Pritchard and others.
description of the Goodyear welt process ensuring a smooth inner sole with no untidy tucks and threads. Stocks include Goodyear welt footwear in all leather in various sizes and prices. Also mentions a unrelated medical product and a shop name Stock's Blue Boot Store.
The Hancock Company of New Zealand will issue about 130 0.9 five and a half per cent debentures. They intend to acquire the Captain Cook bravery. Winston Churchill, under secretary for the colonies, signs government talk on altering the coolie proclamation. A fire on the Rimutaka severely damaged wool.
United Press reports a joint committee of Mutual and New York Life policyholders plans to oust current management. The group includes Judge Parker six state governors Senator Longworth and Cardinal Gibbons. A major fight is anticipated in December.
Mr Chamberlain spoke at the inaugural banquet of the Nineteen Hundred Club in London. He urged a definite social reform policy, emphasized the value of preference in constructive work, and paid tribute to Mr Seddon for advancing inter colonial relations as his final task.
Mrs Miss Billington and fellow suffragists were arrested outside Mr Asquith's home after pressing to ring the bell for a hearing. Billington fined £10 for assaulting police and, for refusing to pay, sent to Holloway Prison for two months. Gladstone, Home Secretary, says sentence was leniently reduced with magistrate's concurrence.
The House of Commons debates Hon. Hvelyn Ceail's amendment to make clause 4 mandatory. Mr Birrell calls the clause an excrescence while noting his amendment as an exception grafted on an exception. Nationalists Paul McNamara and Bolloo back Ceail's amendment as Chambertlain criticizes the bill. The Cecil amendment would merge country and urban schools, prompting questions about passive resistance.
A conference of Non-conformists nearly unanimously urged withdrawing clause four from the Education Bill. The Rev Hirst Hallowes urged the Government to reconsider and present a stronger bill.
June 26 report notes Duma speakers denouncing extravagance in army spending and famine relief aid. Stolypin, interior minister, ignored the remarks and sat down amid calls to resign. Reports mention eight million allocated for famine relief across twenty four provinces after the 1905 crop failure and seven eight mutineers escaping Sevastopol prison.
News dispatches say Batoum artillerymen and engineers mutinied while Cossacks surrounded them. No fighting yet though much of the population fled. The report also notes three additional detectives shot dead in Warsaw as of June 26.
Loypon June 26 Mr Beardmore the builder of the new battleship Agamemnon spoke at the launch noting that improvements in construction were so rapid that in five years time the bulk of the British Fleet would be obsolete.
The center of the Antarctic disturbance lies near South Tagmanis with a 20.84 barometer and winds at sixty miles an hour. The tempest is expected to abate within twenty four hours. Significant delays affect southern telegraphic traffic across the region.
A June 27 report notes a severe thunderstorm with heavy hail over Apsraipx causing little damage, while North and South Ask suffer floods the heaviest in twenty years. The weather remains boisterous as residents seek winter footwear from Mellor's store.
The Senate broadened the scope of the state commerce commission probe to cover the transportation and storage of grain. Evidence indicates railroads favored some elevator firms while disadvantaging others, harming farmers.
Winston Churchill backs intercolonial treaties in a letter from Loudon on June 26 846 am arguing the colonies should lead in progress and that the Motherland cannot stay behind. He warns against exile from the Empire and says the colonies will guide the Empire’s path.
The Royal Commission on the Church of England chaired by Lord St Aldwin presents an exhaustive report. It points to irregularities arising from doubts about rubrics tied to Edward VI's first and second prayer books and urges a new rubric. It also suggests referring doctrinal questions in court to church authorities while preserving Parliament and any future ecclesiastical tribunal rights. The commission says individual irregularities are exceptional and not typical.
Mr Deakin reports a reply on New Hebrides representations. Britain has not yet received representations from New Zealand and the Commonwealth requesting changes to the proposed treaty with France. He fears publishing the full text now would impede remaining alterations.
In June 26 police court, a grocer was charged for not registering a factory address and for employing two shop assistants after hours. The inspector found a daughter at the till and a tank of crockery outside. The case was dismissed as no more than one person was employed.
A public meeting in Westland on June 28 considered erecting a memorial to the late Premier. A subcommittee and canvassers were appointed, but the final form of the memorial was adjourned until after the election. In Welton district volunteers and cadets were invited to fund an endowing hospital bed as a memorial to Mr Durevin. A Meagiel meeting discussed a memorial to the late Mr Seddon with no decision and a committee to prepare a proposal for a future meeting.
News reflects on Richard Seddon a key Australasian figure who died at sea after a week of royal welcomes in Australia and New Zealand. He chartered the Maoriland Premier’s farewell tour, collapsed from heart failure, and died hours after boarding the steamer to Maoriland. The report notes his robust health in youth and his workmanlike life.
The improved Linoleum Revivdr polishes black and tan beota linoleum and furniture, preserves lathes, obtainable at I. W. Preddy's Scie Avant, Ashburton.
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