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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
2
Daily quotations list milling wheat barley oats and related products with prices in pounds shillings and pence for Sydney and Adelaide dated March 19. Entries include flour maize peas onions potatoes and butter with notes on broker and merchant pricing and currency variations.
Mr H A Lloyd for the New Zealand Farmera Cooperative Association conducted a fair at Mr D T Mellroy's Flemington estate. Prices for horses cattle pigs and implements were strong with many buyers present. Notable figures include four year old draught mare 465 pounds and cows selling around 2100 pounds in total.
Large attendance at the Geral dine Hye sale yesterday saw entry of over 20 000 sheep with prices easing. Forward ewes sold well while demand for aged ewes was weak. Lambs and rams fetched varied prices across breeds including English Leicesters Border Leicesters and Shropshire with totals yarded over 100 head and steers cows and dry cows quoted at several pounds and shillings.
The Christchurch wheat market remains firm with little business. growers seek 33 64, but buyers resist. Oat values weaken and demand dwindles, while a shipment of four from Sydney to Wellington is priced at £7 10s, freight and duty included. The Germanicus sails from Port Chaterora to Timara for oats bound for South Africa, then loads to Lyttelton.
March prices at Abdington show 149 yarded cattle with overall demand steady and ranges in pounds per hundredweight including extra prime heifers and fat cows. Sheep and lambs varied by quality, with exports noted and store sheep mixed, while pigs and baconers also traded with general ease in late rates.
The article argues for compulsory poison or a paid bounty to reduce the small birds that damage peat lands. It urges local councils to offer a price per hundred birds to encourage killing or netting, foreseeing a potential bird industry and food use, while stressing urgency.
Local reports note Easten camp for the South Canterbury Rifle Battalion with an Easten site on the Huireline line. A No Licence campaign plan is underway led by Rev Whit t. Timaru bakers agree to Thursday buns before Good Friday. Funeral for Charles Good heads to Ashburton cemetery with many relatives attending. Sir Thomas Hicks obituary note in Ashburton. District order opens for potential Tenth Contingent officers with applications by March 24. Confirmation service held at St Stephen's Church. Advertising notes highlight the Rudge Whitworth clutch and medical cures from Canada Seaweed and Waon's Worm Fiex.
An entertainment bill featuring the Varparis-Thia Valdsres arrives with strong notices from other journals. The group will perform in Ashburton, with a farewell for Mr Jonah Dailey who leaves for Measta Gona and Co. in Christchurch.
Mr D Mahoney offers a 25 nore farm for sale. Ashburton County Council invites tenders to lease reserve area between Ashburton and Pairfield, comprising 128 acres, for seven years. NZ Flour Millers Association announces pollard price up 53 per ton. current price £410 and bran at £3 16s per ton. Mossie Strange and Co invite inspection of winter goods at Burnett Street Ashburton. February arrivals to the colony total 2155 vs 2238 in 1901. departures 2955, including 1209 troops for South Africa, vs 1653 in February 1901. An opportunity to acquire an old established shoeing and general embarkment business at Hinds. Mr George Tai selling due to ill health. near Hinds railway station. Tribe & Co Outfitters of Christchurch made a favourable deal with Bradbury and Co, merchants and manufacturers of Lichfield Street, anticipating reduced costs and profits. The sale starts Tuesday March 7. Mestre Fletcher Bros advertise a Tea Competition with 30 prizes after adding ten extra prizes.
A letter from Mrs. G Lewin of Kling Street North Dunedin thanks Impey’s May Apple for curing years of severe stomach and digestive distress after trying many remedies. She reports complete restoration after using three bottles, endorsing the medicine to others sold by chemists and general stores at 23d per bottle.
The report covers a smallpox removal clash in Forfarshire with fifteen resistors escaping, a New York-Norwest rail strike settlement, a cancer cure discussion in Britain, the Kaiser meeting Prince Henry, Portuguese gunboats capturing slavers, a Tonbridge murderer hanged, a Ceylon governor link, Mrs Russell divorce amid adultery, and an anarchist note over King Humbert memory in Geneva.
The Daily Telegraph reports that after eighteen years Rossia has placed a loan in Germany totaling ten and a quarter million sterling. It also notes Russia's Far East policy has been abandoned in line with M. de Witte's financial approach.
March 18 in St Petersburg workers and students clashed on Nevsky Prospect. Several people were killed, many injured, and hundreds arrested amid the unrest.
The King aims to dine with about half a million of London’s poorest during the Coronation, budgeting £36000 for meat and arrangements. He has requested the Lord Mayor Sheriff county council chair and borough Mayors to organize the event.
After a slight worsening, Cecil Rhodes slept lightly and rallied. He received telegrams of inquiry from the King and Queen Lord Kitchener and Lord Rosebery.
Three youths named Minn of Surrey Hille Aldridge of Hrukinville and Maher of Redfern are reported as new plague cases. The United Prous Association via Elestric Telegraph notes three fresh infections as authorities monitor spread.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s motion for an inquiry into the Army Contract was defeated 346 to 191. Asquith argued for a swift inquiry with Lord Kitchener as a witness, while Balfour warned that a full inquiry was impractical and could aid the enemy.
Sir Joseph Ward visited Lybtalton for a memorial unveiling to the late Sir John McKerzes Packenham. British Minister for Sweden and Norway Sir John Packenham arrived with Lady Packenham aboard the Warrimoos Ha. A man named Thomas Shaw died after being struck by a horse on Monday. A fire at the Public Library caused minor damage. An inquest into James MoMshon’s drowning at the wharf returned an accidental verdict. foreman Martin of Ruthwell was praised for attempting a rescue.
The Canterbury Ashburton based Farmers Cooperative Association promotes Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for quick relief of diarrhoea. They urge households to keep a bottle at hand for potential life saving results.
Lord Kitchener's weekly report tallies eleven killed seven wounded and 158 prisoners with 126 surrenders. He notes an engagement at Ngothi Basin on the 15th where four were killed six captured and seven wounded. The Boers claim 300 casualties at Tweehogh while asserting eleven dead near British lines.
Colonel Porter of the Seventh reports from Capetown and Helibron on March 18 and 14 on active operations in the Orange Colony. The regiment repulsed a midnight attack on the 24th, suffered 26 killed 42 wounded 4 dead, with 15 prisoners and capture of 16 pounder guns two pom poms and 2900 rounds. Health generally good though strength in the field is low.
The Ninth Contingent sailed amid perfect weather and vast crowds. Premier Seddon praised cadets at the Domain review and the Choral Hall reception. A royal forces contingent was welcomed for Coronations, with the Devon departing under a parade of ships and yachts.
Inquest into the death of Samuel Forsyth railway guard in the Lyttelton Tunnel returned an accidental death verdict. The jury urged discontinuing the dining car forwarding practice as it hindered communication between train sections during the Christchurch run.
A correspondent writes after articles on Sheep Breeding in Ashburton County and a Model Farmer praising Meters T Shone and W Langdown for fair dealings. He asks the editor to secure an article from them on land management and tips on selection.
Under royal patronage the diploma was awarded at the International Exhibition in Amsterdam. The notice warns against substitutes like Enca vp Extracta and promotes Sander Sons' Pure Volatila Eucalypti Extract, claimed to be proven by clinical tests at European universities and Prussia.
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