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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 08, 1909
Page
2
Sale offers a range of gents apparel with prices like 228 6d and 40s for 29s 6d. Chesterfield Macintoshes and navy blue pilot coats available in limited quantities. Extra good saddle tweed fabrics priced by the yard with several discount combinations for trousers and coats.
Ashburton County Council votes to transfer charitable aid administration from the Charitable Aid Board to local bodies within the county. The move aims to let fund providers know how money is spent and to ensure sound local administration across the district. The proposal is to be written to Members of Parliament for discussion and potential delay.
Bishop Judge returns to Christ Church by early train. Weekly stock sale set for Ashlirton yards. Isaac Thompson threshes 93 acres barley at 66 per acre with first class samples. Council committee reports aim to economise across receipts and expenditure. Hugo Mriedlander warns economy can save money, including water ranger telecommunication costs. Auckland Chamber urges tenders for railway trucks. Feilding opens municipal swimming baths costing £1500. Southland hospital Saturday collection reaches about £700, aiding Victoria Home and other charities. Conciliation Commissioner Triggs plans early dispute intervention. Justice Minister Findlay replies on police handling of mental health cases. Feilding rain needed. Steck declines in price. Winchester farm sells at £30 per acre turning a good deal for paymaster John Opie. Insects threatening turnips and rape crops near Ashburton.
London March 6 The Harwich by election caused by Mr T Shaw's elevation to the Ranch returned Sir John Barron Liberal with 8028 votes to 25 for J Mackinder tariff reformer. Telegraphic report by Press Association Copyright.
Oxford undergraduates denied a hearing as chaos erupted on the Town Hall platform amid ages and oranges. The Daylight Saving Bill, to advance clocks in April and return in September, won a second reading 180 to 94 with Labour opponents and Churchill and Lloyd George supporting the measure. The government remained neutral. most dissenters were agricultural members.
The Right Rev Bishop Julius visited Ashburton delivering morning and evening sermons at St Stephen's Church and presiding at a confirmation service for twenty seven candidates. He urged prayer and fasting, warned against oppression, and urged unity of church and civil life. In the afternoon he confirmed twenty seven candidates and in the evening spoke on belief and imagination urging national and personal moral courage.
Bishop Julius condemned domestic and business oppression in New Zealand during a midday sermon at St Stephen's Anglican Church. He described wives burdened at home, cold hearts in marriages, families embittered, and servants oppressed by an unfair credit system, urging practical mercy and reform.
A man’s nude, decomposed body was recovered from a pool along the Ashburton riverbank near Carter’s Terrace. Police estimate death occurred at least two months ago after a recent flood carried the body downstream. An inquest will be held. no missing-person report matching the description has been found.
The inquest at Public paepita before Mr W. G. Day, S.M. heard John Robinson Dixon testify he found the body while seeking stray cattle. Sergeant Fouhy reported no identification. Dr Hunter described a post mortem. The deceased likely 70 to 75 years old, two months dead, decomposed with teeth missing and skinless fingers.
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