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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
May 17, 1909
Page
2
The page lists daily May values for rises and betting odds followed by a Moon phase chart. It includes May dates with numerical figures and times for full moon last quarter new moon first quarter apogee and perigee. The data appears as a mixed almanac style reference for astronomical phases and numeric entries.
Two notices mark bereavements on May 17. Samuel Kemp, aged 72, at his Eton Street North residence, remembered by wife Mary. Also Whiting memorializes a mother who died at Rangaterei Nursing Home Christchurch, with faith that God eased her pain.
At a Colonial Institute meeting in London Sir Frederick Young extols selective emigration and New Zealand colonisation as the right model, contrasting it with Canada. He criticises English landholding norms, cites Chinese classics advocacy by Hwang, and attacks aristocratic landholding as harmful to the public welfare.
A Christchurch motorist who drove through Ashburton’s main street at excessive speed on May dth will be charged at the Magistrate's Court's next sitting. Miss Claridge, organist for four years at Primitive Methodist Church, resigns to take up a post at St Stephen's Anglican Church.
A weekly sale at Ashburton yards is announced. Donations arrive for Empire Day from Thomas Taylor. A drunkenness case at Police Court yields 24 hours. Mount Somers Hotel licence sought. Daomett railway workers plan weekly 6d medical fund. Telegraph staff moves and local racing measures feature amid civic updates.
At the Supreme Court in Wellington on Saturday a youth named Frederick Armitage was acquitted on a charge of theft of 43 pounds from John Nelson. The decision was reported by the Press Association.
The Canterbury team to represent the province against Ashburton County on Empire Day includes Dingle D Miller Guiney Guthrie Weaton Enterings Moore Mahoney M'Kenzie Boroughs Megaire Buckley Maxwell Bain and Shanks.
The Hon. R. McKengie arrived from the north by the Waikare for a railway matters interview with a deputation. He will visit Hastings to hear representations on acquiring more land for close settlement and will discuss its advisability.
London reports include the Goldsmiths Company donating 15 000 pounds to the College of Science and Technology, Cody flying a mile at Aldershot in an aeroplane, Windell charged in Bow Street with confessing a scheme to obtain 280 pounds from each of eight branches, and Augustus Heinge accused of misusing 2 250 000 dollars. British unions total 1 173 with 2 406 746 members. Lord Roberts to celebrate a golden wedding. sale of Justice Day’s Dutch and French pictures raises 95 000 pounds. obituary notes Lad Scott linked to Countess Riscel.
In Constantinople May 15 the Press Association reports ten thousand mutineers sent to road work in Macedonia. Ten battalions are deployed to Adana where a court martial is ordered to mete out death to inciters of riot.
The British House of Commons approved the second reading of Redmond's bill to remove Roman Catholic disability by 133 to 123 and referred it to committee. Mr Asquith supported possible reform of the lord chancellorship and Lord vice-royalty to Catholics, while criticizing the accession declaration as unnecessary and proposing a committee to craft a neutral declaration.
London May 15 Mr McKenna said building a Dreadnought creates daily work for 1500 skilled men with seventy percent of the cost going to wages. The remark highlighted the economic impact of naval construction.
London May 16 report states the battleship Temeraira has been faced in commission with the Home Fleet. It boasts searchlights of 4 million candle power and a wireless telegraphic radius of 1100 miles.
Lord Aldenham warns the Budget may drive capital abroad. Prominent financiers including Goschen Avebury Rothschild Huth Gibbs Hambro Glyn Mills Currie and Morgan protest to Mr Asquith. They oppose sinking fund changes and higher death duties, fearing guidance toward taxation on the few and risk to commerce and industrial prosperity.
London report from May 16 says Kroppy employs 70 000 men with 22 000 more expected this year. Germany launches dreadnoughts and expands shipbuilding with four erwigers and six gunboats, twenty four submarines, and torpedo boat destroyers. Admiral Galster warns of British raid threats prompting renewed fleet growth.
An advertisement extols Great Peppermint Cure as a remedy for chronic chest complaints. It promises security from neglect and gloom, urging readers to take a dose of joy as a remedy for illness at a stated price.
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