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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 12, 1909
Page
2
A catalog fragment lists cups and saucers from 3s per dozen plates from 1s 9d to 3d per dozen. Glass dishes and teapots from unknown prices, children's wares from 3d each, vases from 3d, boats from 6d, tureens from 1s, tea sets at 15s, jam tumblers 2s 6d per dozen.
A fragmented advertisement notes low prices on cookware and hardware items including frying pans, lids, knives, handles, branding oils, and cordially invites customers to inspect the stock at low cost prices, with several figures and old currency terms.
Prices on application advertise reagents and bottles at Canterbury Bottle Exchange located at 47 Cole omba Street Christchurch.
Tun New Zealand Trade Review argues against doom on the money market and urges patience and moderation. It cites easing in banking stringency ahead, export growth, reduced imports, and strong production as factors that should lift value and confidence over the coming year.
Townspeople met to discuss building a band rotunda with low turnout. Mayor urged public backing, noting £30 from the Troopers Memorial fund and unspent proceeds from a band concert. He lamented public indifference but pressed on with the plan.
Ashburton county farmers face renewed fire danger as hot dry weather returns. Precautions include ploughing around grain stacks to safeguard harvests. The Milton loss of four grain stacks underscores the risk and prompts caution across farms in the district.
A Labour Department return for the week ending February 17 lists 172 and 272 job seekers in Auckland and Wellington, with Christchurch 73 and Dunedin 87. Smaller centres like Greymouth 52 and Wanganui 48 are noted. total applicants reach 774 that fortnight and 827 last month at Wellington.
Complete aggregates for all team matches at the Trentham rifle event list Opaki Rifle Club A as champion with 5 662 pounds, Timaru Port Guards 4 658, Victoria Rifles A 3 651, Tara naki Guards 2 648, and other clubs with smaller totals. Services Championship standings name McLeay Opaki 5 298, Eden Waimea 4 195, Marshall Karori 8 182, and additional shooters with modest sums.
In London Mr Asquith told a deputation the Government would not back off on the Licensing Bill. When the time comes they will appeal to the people to decide between elected representatives and an irresponsible body.
In London the House of Commons discussed stricter fair wages in government contracts as Mr Hodges pressed for an improved clause. The Postmaster General Sidney Buxton moved the amendment, backed by Labourites as satisfactory. Unionists and some Radical free traders opposed recognizing local trade union rates arguing it conflicts with free trade and outsourcing to lower wage regions.
London March 10 Mr Justice Grantham began a libel action by Mr Jenkins former South Australian Agent General against Australian Trading World over a January 1908 rumour he would be replaced. The editor admitted pressuring for advertisements. damages awarded £25 with costs £500 after the judge’s summing up.
In New York the re trial of the Standard Oil Trust case ends as Judge Anderson of Chicago orders the jury to acquit the defendants, following Court of Appeal rulings on procedure. London reports the collapse confirms Taft’s call for more legislation, with Washington reactions noted.
March 11 New York reports the Iroquois Club in Chicago loudly cheered Mr Dickinson as he explained why a Democrat who voted against him joined President Taft's Republican Cabinet. He argued Southern Republicans risked sectionalism, and that the President magnanimously chose a Democrat to serve as War Secretary, hoping South approves.
Air Rameau Macdonaiel for the Labour Party announces an All British Labour and Socialist conference planned to run concurrently with the Colonial Conference. The event is expected to occur in 1910.
March 11London dispatch notes a petition from 109 Oxford Congregation members calling for abolition of the Albert Spencer lectureship funded by Shyamaji Krishnavarma living in Paris. They propose returning the £1000 endowment and accuse him of stirring sedition among Indian students in Britain.
The Rev Hocking of the Free Church Council delivered a fiery attack on Catholics and the press in Britain. He claimed many priests and nuns in Britain and argued for a government inquiry into conventual institutions. The council voted to publish his speech as a pamphlet for sale at a penny.
A deputation of unemployed informed the Methodist Conference that Melbourne now has 10 000 unemployed. In a separate note a tennis match at Ashburton High School saw Tinwald beat Tiwald by one game in a recent afternoon.
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