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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
May 18, 1906
Page
2
A substantial block of Wakanui Plains land offered for sale on application F Ferriman. Includes Mr Jabez Ellen's 166 acre farm with 1 road 6 perotes. Owner willing to accept a reasonable price. further details available from the registrar and local authorities.
Henry Hunt sells his 103 acre farm with usual farm buildings opposite Grenstreet School. Early inspection advised. Apply F Ferriman. Also for sale a corner section at Cass and South Streets a full acre cheap building site. Apply early.
For sale the Hekeao settlement known as the Goodwill leasehold by Mr J O Sullivans. Full particulars available on application.
Public notice advertises a going concern nursery with 5 acres and 10 more acres adjoining Allenton, including a 7 room dwelling, stables, sheds, and extensive plant stock. Also 74 acres near Allenton School ready for cropping or subdivision. Full particulars and price available on request.
Dietrich Agent announces readiness to accept proposals on live stock with large limits. For full particulars and premium call or write to BR Ferguson, Land and Estate Agent, Ashburton County.
Yorkshire Insurance Co. as district agent presents lowest rates for live stock fire personal accident and sickness employer liability mortgage indemnity. Ferguson urges risks insured and invites clients to obtain cover through the authorized agent.
1475 acres agricultural and pastoral land with large dwelling, stables, woolshed, implement sheds, cow sheds, buggy sheds, piggeries, sheep dip and yards. Subdivided and watered six miles from Geraldine and nine from Orari Erica reasonable. Owner retired, sale to wind up estate. Terms by R VY Ferguson land and estate agent inspection arranged with personal supervision.
The fragment lists moon phase data with dates and times for a month including First Quarter Full Moon and New Moon. It references sun date, rise times, and apogee, showing astronomical details from a historical ephemeris entry.
The next best despatch for the United Kingdom goes via Wrindisi leaving Ashburton on Saturday 19th inst. The next UK mail via San Francisco will not leave Ashburton until July 3rd and the first mail from the United Kingdom via San Francisco is due in Ashburton on June 21st.
Commercial notice notes May 17 wool sales in London with fleece portions realizing 163d B.S over T 14d and a May 18 receipt of 8.34. The fragment mentions Brancepeth clip values.
A sale at Raksia Saleyarde yesterday offered 2000 sheep including fat lambs and a few cattle pigs and horses. Fat lambs sold well with prices quoted for fat crossbred wethere fat meriana and breeding crossbred ewes. Store lambs and store wethers also appeared with varied bids noted for the buyers.
Mesere Priedlander Bros. Ltd offered an account of Mrs M Cronin's freehold property over 22 acres at the Kakaia Saleyards yesterday. Bids reached £25 per acre before the property was passed in, the sum failing to meet the seller's reserve.
The North Canterbury Education Board proposes appointing two physical training instructors, one for male teachers and one for mistresses, to standardize and advance school physical education. Advocates argue physical health supports mental vitality and long-term success, citing Herbert Spencer and the benefits of regular exercises.
Methven to Ashburton telegraph timings criticized as three messages dated 12.30 to 3.15 pm failed to reach in time for the edition. Notes on Moana voyage and a West Ham Distress item mention railway funding and wages for New Zealand workers.
Ashburton reports cycling through local events with Mount Somers Hall clubs forming a winter program led by Ray Blakiston and J Hood. A dramatic company visits Ashburton with The Work Girl at Odd Fellows Hall, while government water schemes for the Taieri river and Maniototo plains loom with over 100000 spent. Local commerce notes retail stock from Burnett Street after Dunlop fire sale.
The first 1908 concert at Oddfellows Hall drew strong attendance and grew honorary membership. Conductor Herr Zimmermann led an ensemble of mainly amateurs through D’Espoir de L Alsaga, Menestrier de St Vaast, Roumanian dances, and Monckton’s Runaway Girl. Performances by Mrs Donald McLean, Urs H Steele, and Mr W Schwartz highlighted a varied program, with praise for Zimmermann and a call for continued public support to elevate future concerts.
Mr Wolland of Tory Street Wellington endorses Rheumo as a cure for rheumatism gout sciatica and lumbago claiming the remedy neutralizes uric acid and delivers good results. Advertises priced bottles and a rush on Golden Eagle Tobacco flakes in two ounce tins.
Three competition games were held yesterday two in the Domain and one at Rakain. A bleak salt ground and a fair afternoon favored the senior clash between Southern Croug and Old Koya drawing many spectators including several ladies.
In a close Rakai yaaterday afternoon match Hakatere defeated Rakaia 8 to 7 after a seesaw spell. Howison and Childs contributed key tries for Hakatere while Sherriffs and Robilliard oversaw a tense contest.
Southern Cross 8 Old Boys 0 in a tightly contested rugby match. Cross played a strong first half and held off Old Boys with late pressure, while key moments by Brown Bouffant and McKenzie kept the Greens ahead. Referee was Mr E. Pritchard.
The Hakatere and Southern Cross Third Grade teams played at Domain No 2 yesterday with Southern Cross winning 22 to 0. Referee was Mr C Nicoll. The season’s opening round of the Senior Competition ended with Southern Cross 3 points, Hakatere 2, Rakaia 1, Old Boys uncertain.
Aman arrested at Waimate for drunkenness. found with £125 12s 6d in possession. Waiapu potato blight devastates over one half of crops causing distress among natives. Bunnythorpe butter factory output to June 1907 sold at 10 1/2d per lb, a record. Oamaru visitor to Orari Country reports a pig shot measuring 6 ft 10 in from snout to tail and 3 ft 9 in at shoulder, largest on Orari ranges. Milk scarce and dear. two boys caught milking a cow on borough reserve using a capacious pail as milk receptacle.
A young man on a bicycle collided with a female cyclist on Cameron Street last night. The woman was thrown to the road and found in a fainting condition, while the male cyclist rode away uninjured and without helping.
An electric tram struck two women who emerged onto the tracks in stormy darkness on Kent Terrace. One woman, Catherine Chy noweth, aged 36, died after severe injuries. the other remained unconscious with a fractured skull but later provided a false name. Two men fled the scene, and a bottle of whisky was found nearby.
Advertising notice lists Linoleum Reviver for boots furniture and leather care. Promotes Bronchial Coughs and Colds remedies, peppermint preparations, and brown boots at local shops including Stock's Blue Boot Store. Announces a large consign ment of men s high grade tan samples discounted. Royal Standard Pills marketed in New Zealand.
The Methven Trotting Club at Methven Domain held its first meeting on a clear day, drawing residents and visitors from Ashburton and Christchurch. Gate takings neared fifteen guineas with further receipts from bookmakers. Rowlock won two races with Brankin riding, while Contract defeated Gipsy Girl by four lengths in the feature. Time details noted for each event and plans for a spring meeting and possible totalizator permit were discussed.
In Melbourne the Supreme Court, before Chief Justice Sir J Madden, restrained an eucalypt distillery from passing off Sander and Sons Eucalyptus Extract as their own. The judge cited the public interest in not imitating the product’s features and ordered publication to warn consumers. The case reinforces that genuine Sander and Sons Eucalyptus Extract remains the authentic option.
A South African shipping freights conference urged Gard Elgin to seek rate reductions based on past arrangements during the last year pending an imperial inquiry. Hon W P Recvas selected 267 navvies for New Zealand from 665 applicants. German bargemasters were entertained at Windsor Castle for lunch. The Rev De Mina, Moderator of the Church of Scotland, is dead. President Roosevelt plans to visit New Zealand at the end of his term, praising the country’s beauty and social reforms. Daly, a Broadway gambler, left £100,000 to aid aged crooks. Hart Gray predicts a large Canadian butter market for Japan.
Winston Churchill demurred to installing wire fences around mine premises except at gates where watchmen are posted. He said the government would not favor restraint by oneinal devices for ordinary liberty and preferred a stronger police force funded by indentured labour importers.
Pietermaritzburg Times correspondent notes plans for martial law tribunals to handle ringleaders while magistrates courts will deal with rank and file with penalties up to two years imprisonment or lashes. Mehloka has joined rebels and relocated his kraala and livestock as main rebel forces remain in Colonel Mackenzie's theater.
May 7 report from Carstown states Capa Mounted Police captured Mor enga and several followers at Reimravmaak and transported them to Upington. The Symbe Ministry remains in office with plans to reintroduce the Unoccupied Land Tar Bill subject to minor changes.
In Russia the Duma's draft address drew broad approval in the Assembly while some deputies violently urged punishment for officials. The report notes a general manifestation of support alongside calls for accountability.
On May 17 officer Zhdanoff was killed in Tambots streets in revenge for alleged brutal treatment of Marie Spiridovza. The absacemn was arrested as authorities brace for Duma speeches and a draft address awaiting first reading.
In London May 17 the Earl of Portsmouth argued the Birrell Bill’s two main principles were endorsed by the general elections. He warned Liberal majority folly if the Tory Lords reject the voice of the people and urged openness to reasonable amendments. A Hobhouse conference backed broad principles with concessions in detail. A City church meeting led by Mr Balfour opposed the Bill, with five dissents.
Mr Lloyd George introduced a compulsory census bill for 1907 workers in 1908 with confidential employer data on material, hours, wages, and plants. Chamberlain supported the move for reliable statistics. Mr Crookes sought travel facilities for MPs, and the Finance Bill had a second reading.
In May by Lonpos the Welsh party strongly supported Mr Kerir Hardie’s motion to refer bills affecting the Principality when read a second time to a committee mainly of Welsh members.
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