Delicious Has A Win In Close Track Meet
Competing in a small track meet, Delicious edged rivals in a tight finish. Key performers from the team delivered strong times and helped secure a narrow victory.
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
2
Competing in a small track meet, Delicious edged rivals in a tight finish. Key performers from the team delivered strong times and helped secure a narrow victory.
The discussion covers Central Employed Body emigration to Canada and hopes for colonial boys or New Zealand youths to farm. It notes Canadian conditions require farm-work readiness and pre-engagement, while Ashburton farmers urge training. It also reports on the Ashburton Dairy Loco Factory setup and advice on dairy farming including milking sheds cattle breeds and year round feeding to ensure milk supply. It cites regional trials in the North Island and praises Taranaki settlers who prospered through described dairy courses.
June vital statistics for the Ashburton registration district show 25 births, 5 deaths, and 11 marriages. For June 1000 the figures were 23 births, 9 deaths, and 6 marriages.
Frost and rain recorded at Domain station while Napier manager W A Schwartz relocates to Christchurch. North Otago farmers face winter feed shortages. railway and tramway cost votes in Hutt Valley fail to reach required majorities. Education Board appoints staff in Mount Somers and Tinwald, and Methven probationary teacher joins. Wellington tramway workers to join benefit society. Privy Council decision on Ashburton licensing awaited. A Cook Memorial Fund talk by Robert McNab draws interest in Ashburton.
Dispatches report the Prince of Wales has returned to the Naval College at Dartmouth. Empire lectures planned by the Colonial Institute aim to tour towns and villages, with local centres to be formed.
Prospectors flood into Stewart region after a sensational discovery near Bitter Creek. Delgrave and Anderson find a vast fifty year old reef with assays around fifty dollars per ton. A new mining camp and rising land prices emerge as stakeholding expands along Portland Canal.
New York reports alienists examine Charlton Porter as his lawyers argue judicial insanity could bar extradition citing Caldwell in the Drie case. Rome notes Italy seeks Porter's extradition per Reuter dispatches.
Baron Unger Sternberg, Austrian newspaper correspondent in St. Petersburg, was arrested this week. He is accused of sending Austria a report on a secret Duma sitting about army redistribution. His note-book lists small sums from Austro-Hungarian Embassy members where he worked as a translator.
Sir Eldon Gorst is on annual leave in England and is reported anxious to retire from Egypt when another responsible post becomes available.
Paris telegraph reports a French raiding expedition in the Shawia hinterland aimed at stopping Sheik Malainin from reaching Fez to foment anti European sentiment. The action resulted in thirteen French killed and seventy one wounded, with heavy native losses as reinforcements arrived.
An advertisement proclaims RHEUMO a quick relief medicine for rheumatism gout lumbago and sciatica. It asserts every dose relieves pain reduces swelling eliminates excess uric acid and dissolves phosphatic sediment. Sold by chemists and stores at a price per bottle.
A large Berlin municipality proposes a population scheme to curb the two child standard. It would pay municipal workers with three children five shillings monthly, four children twelve and a half, five children fifteen shillings, six children seventeen and sixpence a week, until the children reach sixteen.
The Pastfic Seam. Navigation's steamer Quilpua is believed lost after a gale off the Southwest American coast, raising fears for the crew and vessel.
The National Service League opened 21 new branches in 1909 and doubled its membership to 61,919. The organization reports an annual income of 20,791 pounds.
Lord Ellenborough pressed for a bill to ban over-insurance of ships as a dangerous practice. Lord Brassey warned it causes greater sea loss, calling for protection of honest shippers. Mr O'Sullivan of East Kerry was unseated over intimidation and undue influence.
Colonel Seely told the House of Commons that the dominions were invited in February 1909 to name topics for the 1921 Conference and were again invited by telegraph in March this year. Correspondence is now proceeding.
Sir Charles Dilke presided at a meeting of advanced Liberals. A memorial was decided to be sent to the Prime Minister urging full opportunity for discussion of any compromise reached by party leaders.
The court moves to proceed in the case Prancke v Peary with Dr Cook summoned as a witness. Francke sues Admiral Peary for 1000 pounds claiming property taken from Greenland by Peary who allegedly refused to take Dr Cook's prey unless Francke’s share was handed over.
German prize cattle sent to the Buenos Ayres Exhibition were refused entry due to tuberculosis and sent back to Hamburg. German agricultural papers blame British intrigue and fear of competition for the exclusion.
Berlin reports Schoen resigns as Foreign Minister and becomes Ambassador to Paris. Prince Radolin leaves Paris for private life. Leutze to become Mayor of Magdeburg succeeding Rheinhaden. Von Kiderlen Waechter to replace Schoen as German minister at Paris.
Twenty entries have been received by the Defence Department for the flying machine trials to be held early next month in Melbourne. The notice cites the Presa Association and Gapyrigith as recipients, with data dated June 30.
Wright outplaced Wilding with aggressive net play early on. Wilding then dominated rallies with steady groundstrokes and incisive drives to pull ahead. The crowd gave Wilding a standing ovation after the victory.
A cable from the English Tennis Association says it is ready to discuss terms for the preliminary Davis Cup tie to be played in Australia. The message was received in Sydney on June 29.
Parents of young children should be ready for croup in dry cold weather. A simple remedy often cited is Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, widely kept by mothers at home and believed effective. Sold by chemists and others.
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