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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 05, 1906
Page
2
A dated advertisement lists numerous farms for sale in Canter bury Ashburton and Geraldine with land sizes from 5 to 1500 acres. Terms available on inspection personal attention and supervision offered. Several leasehold options and small farms near town also advertised with prices and details of improvements.
An estate at Forest Road One Acre of land with a six room dwelling previously owned by Mrs Jee and now available for sale. The property is described as a fine residence on land of one acre near Allenton-Hovea, tied to Mr John Dempster Perriman.
H P Clayton portable engine mounted on iron wheels with pressure? wheels. Price £46 delivered at Ashburton Railway. Useful power source for farms. F Perriman advertises special terms and a mortgage offer on a farm at Lowcet with current interest rate.
The article lists March Moon phases including First Quarter Full Moon Last Quarter and New Moon times. It notes Apogee and Perigee dates with times and associated orbital values.
Movers Calgary and Co report a London cablegram noting constrained butter sales as buyers act cautiously. Official Copenhagen quotes hold, forecasts are uncertain, and only strictly finest qualities fetch high prices. UK butter imports for the week to February 24 total 96 000 awt versus 77 000 awt a year earlier.
Harvest operations affected attendance but livestock and produce yarded sold at good values. Ducks brought 2s 7d to 2s 9d per pair. potatoes 3d to 1d per lb. carrots 1s 8d per small sack. cabbages 1d each. cauliflowers 2d each. Plates sold 3d to 3d per lb. pot plants 1s 6d to 2s each. Sundries included a bicycle £11 and a meat safe £2 5s.
Mr Henry Stephenson reports a poor attendance at his usual weekly sale and a weak market. Hens bring 1s 4d to 28s 4d per pair, pigs to 7s 6d, store stock around 8s 3d, potatoes 4d and 2d per lb, wheat 103s 6d along. A large fruit consignments sell. apples 5s, oranges about 7s per case, tomatoes and pears in half cases at 6s 6d respectively.
Camprint reports the birth on March 4 1906 at the mother’s Allenton home of a son to Mrs James Campbell.
The Ashburton County Council considers centralising traction engine traffic regulation under a single body under the Public Works Act. Road Boards oppose but support conciliation to replace scattered by laws with unified registration and enforcement, benefiting councils, owners, and residents.
Local and general items including weather at Rakaia crop progress at threshing mills and sales notices. Reports on police court fingerprint case at Milburn and naval squadron movements from Lyttelton to Auckland. Harbour board finances rainfall figures and public notices on classes and council representation.
The late Mr George Kidd was buried yesterday afternoon at Ashburton Cemetery with 60 to 70 vehicles in the cortege. Rev G B Inglis led the service as family members receive condolences and sympathy letters. Also noted is the Ashburton Stock and Saleyards Co. Ltd plan to hold the Ram and Ewe Fair at Tinwald on Friday the 24th due to other fixtures on the 30th.
The Committee of the Alford Forest Racing Club has sent a letter of condolence to the family of the late Mr A H Peaghe of Mount Somers. D. Thomas will auction thirty cattle at Methven yards next Thursday. Rain fell 1 inch 18 points in February at Timaru, below normal. The Bank of England notes cost halfpenny each. Earthquake shocks in Great Britain exceed 250 in two centuries. William Livingstone won a 75 pound pie-eating contest at Dea Moinea Tower by eating 28 pies. Dresdener Bank bought 16,245 shares of Soversion Bank of Canada for 2,000,000 dollars. Mesars W Strange and Co Ltd issue a four page circular about the final clearance closing March 10. Great Britain to send 16,000 marines across Canada this month. N Z Shipping Wakanui arrived at St Vincent after a damaged cylinder. plan to proceed without repairs. Timaru farm sale between 600 and 707 acres at Soadown set at 21 102 per acre. buyer Mr D Ross Waitaki. Moensra Friedlandar Bros Ltd to sell equity in town auctions 412 and 69.3 per details. A Napier toy air gun shot a baby through a window. Hoe ways fined with caution for court charge. Dunedin Court: David Munro pleads guilty to importing and unshipping uncustomed goods and assault. fine reduced to 2 5 and assault dropped. G A Wray 3 M L notes warning cyclists to use lights. fines imposed. Magistrate queries a civil case: a witness born in 32 yields seventy four, prompting laughter at age.
The Autumn Meeting opened in perfect weather with a large crowd. Six furlongs saw Pendant ridden by Hood win by two lengths from Worth Head and Duke of Molton. time 1 minute 64 seconds. Twenty two horses started.
Alford Forest Racing Club opens nominations for a March 15 meeting at Mount Somers. Entries include Great Gun, Tom Tit, Miss Hamilton, Silver Finch, Mauranga, Bantam Shot, Lady Thelma, Silver King, Casabianca, Ngati Toa, Wallflower, Great Gun, Bantam Shot, Manserita, Tom Tit, Joan, and others. The notice lists numerous horse names and owners in a dense roster.
The forty fourth week totals 1454 points bringing a grand aggregate of 78885. Top layings include Lazer Levin 28 Hetha Edwards Blenheim 27 Mick Shaw Blenheim 26 Lynn Edwards Blenheim 25 all White Leghorns. Leger Levin 1256 Brooks South Australis 1122 Marlborough A and P Association 1119 Jonathan Hod aon Blanbairn 1088 Mick Shaw Blenheim 1087 White Leghorns dominate while Hockeys Brown Leghorns Nelson totalled 705. Six others exceed a thousand with Leger Levin 111 Baba Edwards Blenheim 104 Marlborough A and P Association 103. Weather favourable moult progressing freely.
A list of complete NZ patent applications accepted to February 22 from Henry Hughes patent agency Christchurch. Entries cover Auckland Canterbury Otago districts with various devices from ore crushing to mail bag fasteners and anti-fraudulent bottles. Copies of specifications available from Henry Hughes or the Registrar of Patents for copying costs.
The report notes Herbert Gladstone declining a Protestant Alliance deputation over Princess Hua Battenberg's marriage and mentions 45 days in a London fast. It lists Mr Prickett appointed American Consul General at Auckland and Mer Thomas Rawdon Ward joining Fiji's Executive Council. It also cites 150000 Jewish immigrants reaching America with 69000 settling in New York.
The United Press Association reports the Rothschilds have received 407,873 pounds, including about a quarter of a million from America, to transmit to Jews in Russia. The funds arrive amid relief efforts organized by European and American entities to aid Jewish communities affected by persecution.
On March 5 at 3.40 a.m. Sv Prerenssure reports Lieutenant Schmidt sentenced to be hanged and three sailors to be shot for the Sevastopol naval mutiny. Two others receive life imprisonment. Twenty-five more mutineers also sentenced to various penalties.
Johannesburg reports severe alarm at Cabinet ignorance on South African issues. Lord Milner advocates an Intercolonial Commission on native affairs while Churchill condemns his policy. Boer and colonial opinion view Milner's plans as dangerously progressive for coloured races. Stock Market dullness mirrors political anxiety. Verney campaign cartoons faced protests over Chinese slavery imagery.
In Capetown on March 4 representatives of the Het Volk and allied parties met at General Botha's Pretoria residence to seek a constitutional settlement. An equal British and Dutch ministry and a universally elected premier were proposed, but negotiations collapsed as the British rejected Het Volk demands.
The British Parliament debated Mr W Wilson's bill to feed underfed schoolchildren and possibly other pupils. Support came from Mr Birrell and M John Burns who promised time for further stages with aims to pass in 1908. Mr Harold Fox's amendment against feeding reducing parental responsibility failed to gain support.
Sir Edward Clarke spoke on Halborn arguing the Unionist party cannot regain influence in the country’s councils until it frees itself entirely from any proposal to tax corn and meal. The remarks emphasize opposition to grain taxation as a political turning point.
A tornado hit Meridian Mississippi traveling 77 mph destroying commercial buildings hotels and railways within minutes. Twenty one whites and over a hundred blacks died as damage reached about one and a half million dollars and fires caused by the cyclone were later put out by heavy rains.
Kine Edward arrives in Paris and stays at the British Embassy. MM Rouvier meets him at the Gara des Invalides for a courtesy call amid his visit.
Advices from Graytown claim the troublerous chief Bombaata has been arrested. The notice lists farming tools and implements such as scythe blades, reap hooks, binder sections, chains, rakes, preserving panes and other items offered at lowest prices at John One & Co.
The New Hebrides accord keeps Britain and France in control of their own peoples and admins. Both powers retain full authority, with no island division and no independent rule. A key clause creates mixed courts with British and French judges and a special tribunal for land claims under a neutral third judge.
The Daily Telegraph and Morning Herald report that the Anglo French conference fails to solve the New Hebrides problem. Dual control continues, disappointing Australia and sparking debate on whether any agreement truly satisfies Australian interests.
Brepin dispatch reports Count Limadorff told the German government that possible Altesiras conference developments could trigger a Franco Russian complication against Germany. Austria has pressed Berlin with friendly representations.
In Stoner March 5 Tre Thordis went ashore in a gale with heavy seas. The crew were rescued with difficulty. The Marconi Company has begun an experimental wireless station. The Japanese famine relief receives fifty tons of flour from the State Government. Mr Deakin offers support to the Chamber of Commerce to aid Japan.
A Timaru telegram reported a man about to jump from Christchurch wharf into the harbour yesterday morning. Despite a daylong harbour drag, no trace was found, and the missing Timaru resident George Watson, a plumber for Priest and Holdgata of Oamaru, is presumed lost.
Information from Wellington reports Mr R. Lowe, missing for days while attempting to cross the Southern Alps from Weetland, has been found alive. The Hermitage delay was due to a sprained ankle.
The Supreme Court of Victoria upheld Sander and Sons EUCALYPTUS EXTRACT in a passing off case against a rival distillery. Chief Justice Sir James Madeley restrained imitation and ordered costs be paid. The notice promotes genuine Sander and Sons products and warns the public to avoid imitations.
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