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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 18, 1909
Page
2
Lot 1 offers 12 pieces of blouse materials in cotton delaines priced 73d to 104d per yard, cleared at 24d. Lot 2 presents 12 short lengths of satin fabrics at 44d per yard during clearance. Also featured are a wire stretcher, flax mattress, and a kapes pillow for 19s, plus a tubular bedstead with mattress and two pillows for 3 15s.
Ephemeris data for March shows sunrise and sunset values, moon phases including Full Moon and New Moon, and timings for apogee and perigee. The entry lists dates from March 20 to March 30 with varying rise and set times and phase indicators.
A critique notes the Ashburton Rifles reduced from sixty three to about forty five members citing waning public spirit among youth. It argues volunteering builds discipline and health and urges renewed local effort and government encouragement for a robust, active unit.
A Dunedin butcher notes Dunedin prices are lower than Christchurch and from today reductions will widen the gap. Meats listed include mutton chops sixpence, forequarters twenty four pence, legs forty four, shoulders thirty four and four pence, loins four pence, beef rump seven pence, beef steak seven pence, sirloin six pence, ribs six pence, gravy beef four pence.
The Rev G B Inglis remains under medical rest for nervous prostration and will not resume duties soon. He plans a voyage to Ambrym in the New Hebrides with Dr Bowie the Presbyterian missionary, visiting the island previously nine years ago and contributing a report for the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Pulpit duties at St Andrew's Church will be filled by Presbytery members during his absence.
An Oddfellows Hall St Patrick's concert raised funds for Sacred Heart High School despite stormy weather. Convent pupils opened with Les Muscadas and Mrs Barrie Marschel sang The Wearin o the Green. Performers included Clarkson, Humphreys, Cullen, Linay, Hall, Forrester, Burgess, Marschel, Gates, and Claridge with recitations and duets concluding after 11 o'clock.
The thirty fourth biennial seasion of the Grand Lodge of the L O O F continued in Christchurch. Reports show 1064 members initiated, 504 left, with funds up and costs rising due to sickness and medical expenses. Trusts maintained value, and a hearty vote of thanks praised grand trustees for prudent investment of funds.
Canterbury athletic team departs Christchurch for Dunedin to compete in the New Zealand championships on Saturday. Notable members include H St Murray P H Stubberfield C L Orbell and W De Their with US champion Dr Guy Haskins also entering. Haskins posted a strong Lancaster Park mile trial in 4 minutes Sd seconds. Wellington and Ashburton teams also traveled to Dunedin.
Mr Gerardo Klinge, visiting on behalf of the Peruvian Government, toured Lincoln College Christchurch and praised the institution’s practical farming program. He noted students worked harder than expected and said Lincoln College stood out among agronomy schools he has visited. Linge departs for Dunedin tomorrow.
The Star reports from Taupo that at 5:45 this morning Ngauruhoe erupted with a large ash plume that fell on the Waimarino Plains. The event was visible in a nearly cloudless sky, followed by reduced crater smoke.
Indigestion disturbs sleep and can cause insomnia. Many cases have been permanently cured by Chamberlain's Tablets. For sale by Ashburton Drug Co.
Paris reports three million undelivered letters as postal strikers sever links to provinces. Admiral Germmet reinstated after December relief from duty. Imperial Conference notes a motor car tour of English cities. German loan for Canton Hankau rail projected to be withdrawn amid English French opposition. Taft urges swift tariff revision to stabilize business. Cannibalism trial in German East Africa ends with executions. New South Wales loan scrip trades at around discount.
March 17 London report on Mr McKenna and naval estimates as Germany accelerates dreadnoughts. Lords and ministers argue over power standards and peace program while papers debate taxation and entente with France and Russia.
At a London banquet Lord Tennyson praised Australian sculptor Bertram MacKennal as a pioneer in noble Australian art. MacKennal pledged that the bush’s mystery would inspire great art and that the Federal capital effort could create a Federation monument, signaling the nation’s coming greatness.
Vienna reports Austria intensifies its reply to Serbia by mobilizing sixty six battalions in Bosnia, a move equivalent to adding about 40,000 men to the army. The crisis is described as an international matter with potential for broader conflict.
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