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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
May 12, 1913
Page
3
Usual prices listed for Ansonia and Rivera lever watches including 8 day and 10 jewel models. Sale prices shown with discounts and notes on 12 month guarantee for AI watches. Ladies watches in silver nickel and gun metal advertised with continuations likely in the next page.
In Christchurch at Lancaster Park Old Boys defeat Canterbury College in front of the season’s largest crowd. Albion and Merivale see Albion pack superiority. Linwood and Marists draw. Sydenham beats Christchurch after a stronger second half showing.
St Albans faced Linwood in a thrilling display, with St Albans dominating exchanges in the best league game this season. Sydenham shocked Addington on the adjacent ground, drawing a fair attendance despite recent rains improving the field.
Williams defeated Lindrum in Sydney. The scores were Williams 16 000 and Lindrum 14 812. The match highlighted Williams’s victory in a high profile billiards contest.
Weather has hindered shooting parties with small game yields. Farmers restrict access and few places remain open for sport, pushing enthusiasts to the hills where ducks are plentiful and conditions are favorable.
The film described as a powerful love story set in Italy plays this evening and again Tuesday and Wednesday at His Majesty's Theatre. The programme also includes other good films. Saturday marks the screening of Charles Reade's Never Too Late to Mend as the star attraction. Skating resumes tonight.
A 1913 Auckland letter urges Tarshish to build dreadnoughts and fleets to defend Palestine and aid Israel in a coming end times conflict. It portrays Great Britain and allied powers facing a biblical battle, urging mobilization of ships, arms, and manpower to secure the Holy City and fulfill prophecy.
A testimonial from Ashburton Hampstead about Doan's Backache Kidney Pills curing years of backache and kidney trouble. The user reports rapid relief after five bottles and urges readers to obtain genuine Doan's from Yoster-McClellan Co. in Sydney for their own health.
Fire at the wax vest a factory in Caversham Dunedin on May 12 destroyed the large manufacturing room and its £1000 plant and £300 raw material, while storage drying engine and boiler sheds and offices were saved. Management plans reconstruction soon. loss estimated £500 over insurance.
The King and Queen watched seventeen airplanes including a monoplane and airships perform at Aldershot. Bomb dropping was demonstrated while a biplane engine exploded at about one hundred feet, and the pilot glided the craft down smoothly.
Sir Edward Grey calls the Association of Chambers of Commerce to boost cooperation with commercial attaches and to seek guidance from manufacturers and merchants in foreign markets a committee is to implement these ideas. A cheerfulness cue and Baxter's Anti-Neuralgic Pills appear in the text.
Motorists are urged to invest 229 in the Dot Vulcaniser promising automatic operation safe for children and guaranteed to lengthen tyre life and cut tyre bills by half. It prevents cuts that let water rot fabric and cause blowouts, with demonstrations available at the garage.
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