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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
2
The Commercial Department now operates in the premises recently occupied by the National Mortgage and Agency Company at Somerset Buildings Burnett Street next to Dalgety and Company. No business will be transacted at the factory behind the old site.
The Over-Seas Daily Mail sponsors an Empire Day Rifle Competition with participation from Canada Rhodesia and New Zealand clubs. Teams shoot under Bisley rules at 200 500 and 600 yards with eight top scores counting for the day. A fifty guinea cup and medals reward winners.
The report notes police require owners for a lady s handbag and a purse watch and money. It also covers local racing fixtures at Temuka Bowling Club on April 2 and a late Christchurch express delaying arrivals in Ashburton. Additional items include market sales, hydatid disease discussion, theft case in Napier, and Windsor Magazine offerings.
A Dunedin caterer uses sparrows for a spar row pie at a banquet. A man in Dunedin is fined for kicking a horse near a tram. The Ashburton Operatic Society to stage Les Cloches de Corneville at Oddfellows Hall with charity proceeds. Canterbury Acclimatisation Society votes on duck shooting, council supports abolition. A dairy inspectors course in Wellington is announced. Ashburton Good Templars discuss bazaar postponement, temperance address given. Dunedin Hospital Trustees debate a second operating theatre and sterilising room. Drought affects Wairarapa flocks. sheep mix with neighboring stock. NZ Trotting Association receives Canterbury Club inquiries. Cost of living table shown. prices long-ago rates listed. Scottish Society lecture and social planned with Mr Patterson speaking.
A large attendance at the Wakanui clearing sale on account of Mr J W Rogers yielded high bids for farm implements livestock and produce. Prices reached for Planet Jr discs six leaf harrows to six horses and heifers and steers with draught horses and draught colts among the top quotes and many lots of lambs ewes and fat stock sold.
London reports 7487 bales offered with nearly half NZ cross breds. Merino and pressbred prices fall 7 to 16 per cent versus January. dull competition noted. Earlier rates show fair opening. American wheat visible supply 64,098,000 quarters. Dalgety and Co. note continued softer prices across merino and crossbred wools in the second series opening.
A reader complains a resident allows ducks and geese to swim in the main water-race through the township. The ducks’ presence blocks the water used by the baker for bread making, and no steps have been taken to stop it.
A stream of reader letters criticizes Parliament’s Licensing Bill and defends editorial courage, praising the paper’s stance on moral issues. Correspondents urge resolve against liquor traffic, with references to Asquith’s bill and New Zealand’s stance, urging Ashburton to maintain prohibition.
At a Christchurch Charitable Aid Board meeting, the chair moved to rescind a prior plan to add incurable wards at Woolston and Ashburton homes. Debate followed on hospital versus home care, with votes 7 to 6 to delay. later a motion to fund annexes for chronic indigent and non consumptive cases passed after an amendment was defeated.
On Monday night Mareh Zard next and Tuesday the 24th West's Pictures and the Brescians reappear in Ashburton at the Oddfellows Hall. Seats should be booked early for the fine selection of entirely new films. West offers new colonret cinematrograms travel pictures and comic series with brighter dire tions than ever.
Captain Edwin reports a weather note with winds from the west moderating to strong, rain probable after 16 hours, and a forecast of grass growth or fall.
Canada shows a budget surplus of £3,800,000 for the year according to Finance Minister W. S. Fielding. London notes tariff reform discussions favoring colonial trade but no action due to lack of two thirds support. Anarchist incident in Chicago linked to self defense claims. suffragists escorted to Holloway prisoners. Influenza deaths tallied in London. Australasia Bank report details deposits and securities. South of France tennis champion Wilding defeats Ritchie 3–0.
The Queen and Empress Dowager Marie of Russia asked about Sir H. C. Bannerman. He was reported March 19 at 3 85 a.m. to be more comfortable with strength improved. John Burns urged municipal bodies to seek imperial partnership to relieve unemployment through combined public works.
In the House of Lords Lord Avebury moves the Sunday Closing of Shops Bill to a second reading with a pledge to amend it to meet Jewish case concerns. The proposal aims to restrict Sunday trading and has sparked debate among peers about religious and commercial interests.
Lord Carrington's Agricultural Holdings Bill, read a second time, faces compensation for improvements on holdings. The Small Holdings and Allotments Bill expands county councils powers on small holdings loans for tenants. The Miners' Eight Hours Bill drew two dissentients amid strong opposition.
In London on March 18 the Central Council of the Church of England Temperance Society, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury and with many bishops present, endorsed the Licensing Bill and pledged to support extending the time limit to fourteen years if needed. The Times notes Government openness to a material extension, while opposition remains firm against the bill.
Report from London dated March 17 notes French troops under General Damade routed tribesmen near Achacho Hills. Thousands reportedly slain before a cease fire order for humanity. Damade’s losses were described as slight.
In St. Petersburg on March 18 the Czar commuted General Stoessel’s death sentence to ten years in a fortress imprisonment, exclusion from military service, and loss of rank.
M Stolypin warned the Duma that refusing funds for the naval construction plan would harm Russia's international position and be a backward, dangerous move amid current international competition.
A reported exchange from St. Petersburg dated March 16 describes General Smirnoff being severely wounded in a pistol duel with General Fock at fifteen paces. The challenge arose during the Port Arthur trial with General Fact pressing the duel after accusing General Smirnoff of dishonour.
River report notes river conditions this morning Rakaia dirty Rangitata fishable Ashburton mouth clear Upper Ashburton discoloured and unclear flows for anglers and fishermen in the region.
Lord Minto reports crops worth £15,000,000 lost in the United Provinces of India affecting about fifty million people. Relief committees are being formed to aid the victims.
The Des Mo ines and Ea le were ordered to Hayti on March 19 at 9 am. A British cruiser Indefatigable fired a salute at Port au Prince triggering intense excitement as locals feared bombardment and halted the execution of Lieut Laragne. Refugees including General Firmin are aboard a French cruiser in Gonaives as powers threaten to depose President Alexis and set a Provistence Government amid protests.
Reporters relay that several Nimrod crew members consider leaving the vessel if Captain England does not remain aboard. Some favor following him south. others intend to stay. The boatswain conferred with England as the number staying is awaited.
At a meeting of the Auckland Rugby Union Management Committee the proposal was made to urge the New Zealand Rugby Union to drop the two island matches and replace them with three test matches involving the British team.
Since December an outbreak of typhoid fever has produced at least 18 cases in Auckland city and suburbs with 13 deaths. However, the recent heavy rainfall has led to a daily decrease in new cases, signaling potential relief.
Lady Plunket led a large meeting in New Plymouth on infant life protection outlining her scheme used in other centres. Doctors spoke and hospital nurses demonstrated humanised milk. There is strong potential for forming a local society.
Wellington reports the Arbitration Court continuing sittings with fines for breaches of carpenters and joiners award. Howie and Matthews £2 and costs for employing an unindented apprentice. Wakelin and Sons £2 and costs. Wilkening £5 for under rate wages without permit. Chapman Taylor £2 and costs for excessive probation without proper apprenticeship. Hart Udy £2 and costs. Young £5 and costs for permitless under rate work. Crump £2 and costs for apprentice not duly indentured. Knighty £2. For tailors bespoke work, DC. Smith fined £5 after a dispute over delivery and alterations. New Zealand Times also fined for feeder and compositor award breaches and Crawford fined for ignoring general labourers clause.
A cautionary note urges purchasers to avoid low grade auction bikes and choose high quality machines. It names Royal Enfield Rudge Whitworth and New Hudson as trusted brands and identifies B D Johnston on Burnett Street as the local agent.
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