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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
May 01, 1903
Page
2
London April 29 Dalgety and Co report outlines upcoming wool sales on May 6 13 and 22. Antwerp pony prices show higher rates for morives and fine crossbreds while medium and coarse crossbreds hold. General market trend at par to a little lower, and mutton tallow buyers are scarce with large declines noted.
Homebush sales Sydney on April 30 report sheep in short supply and prices at highs not seen in years. Wethers fetch 168 6d, extra good 19s 9d, goods range 14s to 14s 6d, best ewes 1 guinea 5s, best bulls £11 15s 8d, good £10 10s, cows £9, overall beef quoted at 33s per 100 pounds.
At the Methven yards yesterday about 8000 sheep were yarded and sold briskly as farmers gathered in force. Merino ewes ranged 1p 11d to 7s, wethers 7s 74, crossbred ewes 4s 8d to 14s 6d, fat ewes 14s Lda 6d. Lambs sold 16s to 133 7d with a line of 540 at 11s 3d. Wethers forward 13s 7d fat 14s 9d to 16s. Cattle: cows £5 10s to £6 10s, heifers and steers £5 to £6, young cattle £1 15s to £3.
April vital statistics show 19 births 12 marriages 13 deaths in Ashburton district. Mr Horace Thompson of Milner Thompson Christchurch arrived to push firm business. Canterbury Frozen Meat Co proposes freezing works and shareholder meeting for capital. Mount Somers Road Board election results declare Fergus Gates Harrison as elected. Port S Sonnathan crew charged with cargo breach embezzlement and whisky found aboard, six jailed fourteen days each and ordered to refund funds. Woods' Great Pepper mint Cure advertised for hacking cough at night.
A collage of local items includes hunting season opening, church notices, postal unclaimed letters, a railway workers rights protest in Wellington, a tongue in cheek piece on an American case, council and harvest festival reports, a talk on New Zealand statistics, and dairy co operative company explanations including joint and several liability and capital structure.
Professor Bickerton arrives from Christ church and will lecture on Health and Exercise at the opening Gymnastic Club meeting in Oddfellows Hall Jivancuusrie Mission. Mayfield Presbyterian Church hosts evangelist James Walker from Edinburgh with Wesleyan participation. his week closes Friday before Reverend William Grant continues next week.
Strikes on April 30 by Montreal and Ottawa longshoremen led to attacks on non unionists and a fire set on a Heyland Line steamer cargo. Canadian Pacific Railway grain elevators were angered while cargo was buried and later extinguished. Six arrests made as twelve hundred militia guard the harbor and protect non unionists. Shipping firms threaten to import thousands of English lumpers.
Advertises Woods Great Peppermint Cure priced at 1s 6d and 2s 6d with claims of unmatched sweetness. Recommends New Century Soft Rubber Hair Onelore.
A Ashburton business delegation led by the Mayor pressed Minister Sir Joseph Ward for improved railway services. They cited limited siding capacity delayed trucks and insufficient shunting at the goods shed, urging a new line and extra staff. The Minister promised to obtain a report and take immediate action on telephones and urinals concerns.
The Scripture Textbook Conference concluded its deliberations and unanimously backed lessons for a Victorian school scheme. A Revising Committee was named to refine the work before presenting to the Premier, with Dr Gibb as convener and a Wellington Christchurch Auckland Dunedin officer slate guiding the movement.
News in Brief reports Pletcher Bros offering eggs at a reduced dozen price from a future date. Me D Thomas promotes pigs at Tinwald Yards on Tuesday 30 forward store pigs. Moasra Shearman Bros advertise wart 1000 dager eggs at 1s 6d per dozen.
The item extols Britain’s naval prowess and its sailormen, praising ships at sea and the flag’s reach across oceans while noting sailors endure cold and hardship as their home is the waves. The ad also mentions Strange's sale on tailoring services and a perforament cure reference.
The April dispatches record £30000 raised for Lancashire cotton growth within the British Empire. The Daily Express reports Hidison's air separation method for gold from land. A Home Office expert cites Miss Holland as a Farm tragedy victim shot. Underwriters earn 200 percent profit on American Steel Trust. The Berlin Merchants Guild hears of a sugar plant yielding twentyfold sugar in South America. The Colonial Sugar Company shows £100291 profits with a 10 percent dividend. Drought damages cane in Australia and Fiji. measles outbreak in Fiji discussed by Sydney doctors. substantial timber shipments to New Zealand noted.
King Edward attended a banquet at the Quirinal and, in a private Vatican audience, spoke with the Pope about enduring Anglo Vatican friendship and shared liberal ideals. The exchange included a promise of a signed photograph and a cordial armchair conversation in French.
United Press reports a catastrophic eruption near Frank in Northwest Canada destroying a coal mine and killing over a hundred people mainly women and children. Volcanic activity covered the mine entrance with lava and debris, damming Crow's Nest River and threatening floods while the top of the mine burns and sixty miners remain inside.
John Williams, born 1835 in St Helens Cornwall England, died at 67 after dropsy and heart disease. He arrived in 1872 aboard the Lady Jocelyn landing at Lyttelton on her first voyage. He worked as a shepherd at McAlpine’s run Selwyn then farmed at Springston before buying Gleynn Farm at Pendarves in 1882. He took active part in public affairs and leaves a widow four sons and one daughter. Funeral set for Sunday.
A hazy shooting day on the local range yesterday limited accuracy for both sides. Scores show names like Parsons, Peray, Willig, Hefford, Schwarts, Clayton, Tucker, Hodgson, and Turner among others, with totals around 885 for the teams.
Under royal patronage and at the Amsterdam International Exhibition, claims are made that oxygen saturated oils from eucalyptus and related extracts cure respiratory and inflammatory illnesses. Medical Clinics of Bonn and Greifswald Prussia allegedly confirm safety when properly processed, urging purchase of Sanpri Eran Purge VotaTinn Eunes LYETr Extract for protection.
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