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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 02, 1909
Page
2
Stipendiary Magistrate T Hutchison at Oamaru delivered a decision on licensing law interpretation as reported by the North Otago Times. The issue discusses fat stock prices and retail beef and mutton margins, temperance reforms led by Rev F W Isitt, and local civic notes including court, education, theatre, and weather updates.
A correspondent challenges Albert Roberts over land purchase funding and ownership. He asks who financed the 22 acres with a brick public-use house, questions whether the property is mortgaged or for sale, and demands a license and payment before access. He vows to answer Roberts’ questions once he receives a reply.
The Canterbury military district announces April 9 to 12 drills under Lieutenant Colonel Hawkins. Forces include Coast Defence volunteers, infantry, mounted rifles, artillery, engineers, and cadets mobilising at Mount Somers and marching to Mount Somers camp with recon, outposts, and simulated attacks.
Wellington March 2 The NZ squad to face New South Wales in Sydney includes Miss Powidrell of Faranaki Miss Nunneley Ward Miss Travers Wellington Miss Wellwood Hawke's Bay Miss Gray Auckland with emergency pick Miss Braithwaite Hawke's Bay The team departs Wellington April 18.
Messrs J and N Tait bring the celebrated Royal Welsh Male Choir to Ashburton on Tuesday March 16 at the Odd Fellows Hall. The choir, formed by miners in Treorceri and Rhondda Valley, has won nearly £19 000 in prizes and dominated major British choral contests. Conductor W W Thomas is cited as a key factor in their success. Tours and arrangements are handled by manager A W Batiste, who will meet music officials at H M Jones’s box office.
Nominations closed for Ashburton Licensing District with candidates listed including Flatman Upton Macdonald Stubbs and Cheat. If nominations do not exceed required numbers there will be no election. other districts like Avon Riccarton Kaiapoi Geraldine Lyttelton and more also announce nominees and election dates.
Nominations for licensing committees were announced in multiple centers including Selwyn Auckland Waitaki Wairarapa and Nelson. Several incumbents retired while party tickets split between Citizens No-license and trade supporters. Some districts faced no election as the number of nominees met required seats.
The ad claims RHIEUMO erads uric acid from the body and is the greatest rheumatism cure. It asserts thousands have tested its value and urges readers to try it for relief. Available at chemists and stores for 2s 6d and ds 6d.
The report notes Congress dropped a amendment to split the Navy between Atlantic and Pacific. President Roosevelt opposed the division citing lessons from Russia and Japan as evidence of weakness. Also listed are notes on Harbin municipal governance, Turkey public meetings, Paris wireless links, German worker insurance, Australian copyright, and An Earl's Estate valued at £279,604.
March 1 London reports Mr Joseph Delvin of Belfast West is summoned by Mr Crean for disorderly conduct at the National Convention of the United Irish League in Dublin. It is the first prosecution under the Public Meetings Act passed at Lord Robert Cecil's initiative.
In St Petersburg, former Secret Police chief I. Zavareiskis faces charges for arranging the execution of five men and imprisonment of twenty four through fabricated discoveries and plots. The motive alleged is to persuade superiors of the authenticity of his claims.
The dispatch notes fighting at Tabriz and Tehran on March 1. Revolutionaries at Reskt dig mines and fortify the Russian road while Royalists blockade Tabrig for two weeks. Nationalists remain indecisive amid ongoing clashes.
Serbia informs Russia it has no aggressive intent and expects the powers to judge its interests. Russia welcomes the pledge but rejects territorial ambitions, with no mention of demobilisation. War fever rises in Serbia as protests increase. The Porte bans transport of explosives through Turkish territory.
In Capetown Mareb the Baralong chiefs denounce the constitution while Lord Selborne at Cape Town University opposes breaking Bastoland and native reserves. He says natives deserve land shares, rejects uniform franchise, and backs a judges commission for enfranchising civilised natives with representative councils and free speech but no ownership.
In Calcutta on March 1 a hundred ruling chiefs and hereditary nobles formed a loyalist association and memorialised Viscount Morley protesting that Hindus object to Muslims being represented beyond their numerical strength. The report notes smallpox at a Calcutta hospital with seventy six deaths in six weeks. The Royal Commission on decentralisation backs expanding provincial powers toward regular council governments with governor and four ministers. objections cited by Mohammedans and native princes.
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