Livestock market at Addington shows varied demand and prices
At Addington market on May 20 in Christchurch a large fat stock entry met mixed demand. Fat sheep eased while dairy cows sold well. fat lambs were strong for prime lots. Cattle demand softened for lighter grades with plenty of prime beef selling near last week’s rates. Pigs showed dull demand for fats but strong selling for stores.
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Christchurch
Addington
North Island
Southland
Geraldine Stock Sale Sets Strong Lamb Prices
The Geraldine stock sale on Wednesday totalled 8500 sheep with half fat and forward lambs. Prices rose 1s to 25s per head as buyers packed the yard. Fat lambs ranged from 13s to 25s 1ld with bulk at 16s 2d to 25s 1ld. Store lambs, fat ewes, store ewes, and wethers also showed robust values across many age groups.
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Geraldine
Dunedin Sheep and Cattle Market Report May 26
In Dunedin the Durnside stock market reports a large yarding with prices generally down from last week. Sheep show best bids at 21s to 25s 6d for prime ewes and 14s to 17s for inferior. lambs 13s to 14s 6d for medium and 14s 6d to 15s for best. Pigs see yarding with suckers 10s to 12s, baconers 45s to 60s. fat cattle supply 200 with best bullocks £8 to £14, mediums £7 to £8, inferiors £5 10s to £6 10s.
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Dunedin
Wheat and Flour Demand and Market Conditions
The article argues repeated tactics to repeal wheat and flour duties, noting government action was weak and prices rose in New Zealand while Sydney imports lagged. It cites weather over demand, dismisses farmer-sowing losses as exaggerated, and says global shortages were overestimated as consumption fell and supplies remained abundant.
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New Zealand
Sydney
1905 exports surge. Argentina leads with strong quarter sales
Foreign shipments show mixed results with 1905 exports reaching 4,760,000 quarters in months, while Argentina reports exports totaling $858,000 quarters since January. Total world demand for the crop year is estimated at 26,000,000 quarters, Argentina projected to supply 18,000,000, others to cover the balance under normal sowing and harvest conditions.
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Argentina
Notable New Zealand Court Terms Assault Robbery and Sentences
Supreme Court sessions in Auckland and Wellington on May 20 sentenced or remanded multiple defendants. James and Alfred Chappel received two years for assault and robbery. a Pakuranga youth, William Scarbron, found guilty of scrap-iron theft and remanded. Kennedy admitted to firearm intimidation and was probationed and released on sureties. Flora alias Wiremu Ropata found not guilty of jewellery theft. Jansen and Diggs given two years hard labour for assault and robbery. Philip Ryan received five years for attempted unnatural offence. Frederick Hall life imprisonment for attempted murder. Evans five years for breaking and entering and theft. Be Shekys’ rape sentence deferred. A fireman involved in cargo breach acquitted. In Christchurch, John L Brown found not guilty of assault on his wife after testimony about temper and a violent New Year’s Eve incident.
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Auckland
James
Alfred Chappel
Thomas Stashford
William Scarbron
Pakuranga
Daniel Kennedy
Kennedy
New Zealand
Wellington
Charlotte Prisk
Flora
Wiremu Ropata
Masterton
Frederick James Jansen
James Diggs
Christchurch
Supreme Court
Philip Ryan
Frederick Hall
Alex. J. Muir
Lyttelton
William Evans
John Be Shekys
Court of Appeal
Papanui
Leslie Brown
Death Charged For Killing Wife At Stirling Hotel
At Balclutha on May 20 Richard Cornish formerly of Stirling Hotel faced a charge of killing Catherine Elizabeth Cornish on May 1. Evidence reported severe head injuries and bruising with moaning heard from the wife’s room, and Cornish allegedly confessed to the act. A remand was granted with further witness testimony awaited.
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Ceansal
Mra Cornish
Fie
Hinzie
Lizzie
Knox
Bennett
Leal
Hanlon
Cornish
Mr Hanlon
Burnett
Balelitha
Adeth
Fitegerald
Kaitangata
Stirlingotel
Dunedin
Balelaths
Farming Praise and Pests in Southland from New Zealand Visit
Woodend farmer Mr George Little, on a Southland tour, says the region's winter feed is abundant and land fertile, with better conditions than North Canterbury. He notes rising rabbit pests, expanding Californian thistles, and strong cattle and crop outputs including 32 truckloads of turnips sent to Oamaru and a good oat crop, aided by two dry seasons boosting prosperity.
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George Little
Woodend
North Canterbury
Southland
Ashburton
Mr Little
Little
Dominion
Oamaru
Wellington teacher's cane ruling in youth discipline case
Coroner or magistrate Reserve judgment in Haynes v Howe holds that teacher W G Riddell acted within authority to discipline a 14 year old pupil. Four strokes caused severe bruising but no permanent injury. Judge finds some excess but not enough for conviction. Riddell must pay prosecution costs of £3 12s.
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W. G Riddell
Wellington
Haynes
Ashburton Urges Early Kidney Health Action
A local appeal warns that delay risks serious kidney disease and cites Mrs 2 M McKee of Beech Road Ashburton praising Dean's Backache Kidney Pills. The ad urges timely treatment, lists symptoms, and notes the product price and Sydney supplier Foster McClellan Co.
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Holland
Ashburton
2. M. McKee
Beech Road
Dean
Foster- McClellan Co
Pitt Street
Sydney
Dgan’s
Contested Plans For Tuarangi and Woolston Homes
North Canterbury Charitable Aid Board debated delaying the Tuarangi Home extension at Ashburton as a hospital and delaying Woolston Home work. A proposed amendment to defer until local body conference produced steps toward a report by relevant committees.
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North Canterbury Charitable Aid Board
Christchurch
Manhire
Harper
Tuarangi
Ashburton
North Canterbury
Woolfe
Horrell
Woolston
Tusraugt
Friedlander
Harvell
Tuarangi and
Woollston
Fire on the Tonic halts London departure at Glasgow Wharf
Fire breaks out in No 1 hold of the Shaw Savill and Albion Line steamer Tonic at Glasgow wharf while loading flax and tallow cargo. Fire crews director steam and chemical extinguishers as hatches remain sealed and departure postponed. Vessel, 12 232 tons gross, sister to Athenia and Corinthia, launched in 1902 by Farland and Wolff.
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Wellington
Shaw Savill and Albion Company
London
Glasgow
Carter
Wellington Tarbour Board
Fire Brigade
O’brien
No. 1
Manawatu
Foxton
Union Company
Terawhiti
Bendall
Harbour Board
Tavo
Athenie
Corinthie
Oceanic Steam Navigation Company
Messrs
Ismay, Imrie,and C
White Star Line
Farland and Wolff, Ltd
Queen's Island
Belfast
Groes
Exile System in Siberia Expands Rapidly
Siberia spans 4 833 500 square miles nearly 40 times UK. Convicts numbering about 1800 to 1900 yearly are allocated to prisons in Western and Eastern Siberia. Gold-washings at Kara and the Shilka and salt works at Usobe cannot hold more than 10 000 exiles, with surplus sent to Sakhalin for coal mining or settlement. Exile began after exploration, with 300 per year in 1823 rising to about 20 000. Rivers freeze from November to May in the lower latitudes.
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Siberia
United Kingdom
Kara
Shilka
Usobe
Sakhalin
Old Boys Seniors Draw With Rakaia In Dirtier Do main Oval Match
Old Boys seniors fielded eleven men against Rakaia at Do main Oval. T Shannon opened scoring for Rakaia while Hani Bonifant and Eric Orr added for Old Boys. FP Anderson and S Laramanai converts featured, final score a draw. Later New Zealand beat Metropolitan 43 to 10. Rugby Union expelled eleven players after Saturday's All Blacks match.
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Rakaia
Domain Oval
T. Shannon
Cardner
FP. Anderson
Eric Orr
Nt. Pritchard
Reveree
Brisbane
New Zealand
The
Rugby Union
All Blacks
Otago Team Selected To Face British Side May 30
Dunedin May 20 The Otago eleven to meet the British team on May 30 includes Kindley at full back Dyes Bennet O Sullivan in the three quarters McLeod and Causey five eighths Wekhold at half back Forwards Causey Hitzpatrick Ivimey Paton Patterson McDonald captain McKenzie Tansey Eclkhold Casey Paton and McDonald are veterans of the last New Zealand tour to Australia
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Dunedin
Otago
Kindley
Dyes
Bennet
O'Sullivan
Death of Mr A H Baskerville Organizer of All Blacks
Mr A H Baskerville secretary and organiser of the All Blacks died tonight from pneumonia. The body will be embalmed and conveyed to New Zealand by the first steamer. Farmer and eight others will accompany the body.
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Brisbane
A. Tf. Baskerville
All Blacks
New Zealand
Farmer
Theody
Agricultural wages and curious rural notes across domains
Agricultural wages in England are 18s 3d weekly, Wales 17s 3d, Scotland 19s 8d, Ireland 10s 11d. A couple in a thousand reach golden wedding. New Zealand milk imports rose in 1902, then fell by 1907. Hawera pigs set a value over £200. Dual purpose cows are debated. profit favors specialized dairy or beef stock. Ewes with lambs in poor condition were given away at Marlborough railway station. A seven inch snake appeared in a Queensland pineapple case. London firm sells horsehair direct from takers. Rumors of gold quartz end in Maniaweka. Floods bring quartz containing gold from Kuahine ranges. Mangaweka syndicate to prospect early spring. Three rabbits seen in Macraes district. Wairarapa unions file industrial action after a failed conference. Hairpin wisdom and rubber footwear noted. New York wire accident prompts heroic young woman using rubber boots as gloves. German police view English/French as seditious. shopfront English inscription investigated. Berlin ad reveals fake honorary customers to energize dining rooms.
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Burnett Street
Chesterfield
Gure
Culo
A. —E. Sombirotor
iChemist
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Choor
Miss Claridge
Ethel Claridge
Fox Street
Next Strange and Co
Tancred Street
A. WT
Vayeran
East Street
Gad Tobacco
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Fletcher Bros
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Manchester
Addington Stock Market
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Per Press ‘Association
Per Press Association
Charitable Aid Board
OLD Boys V. Rakaia
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A. H. Baskerville
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Ireland
Hawera
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Wdihont Coven
Amy Bush
Tao
John Orr
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I Ashburton
A. H. Field
Elly
D. Fbomas
Thomson and Cos
H. Buchanan
Maude and
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Burnett St
Llewellyn Owen
A. Mus
A. Mos
Suils
Lane
Coalbrookdale
COAL
Goalbrockdale
West
Coalbrockdale
Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company
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Standard Fink and Marine Insurance Company OF New Zealand, Limited
En A. H
R. al Alcorn
Fidelity
Manning
Nanas
Canterbury
T. Bullock
Tinwald
Harland Straet
Ley
William Streat
Bullock
H. Matson and
H. Matson & Co
Lanterbury
Matson
Adington
Chedue
Achburton Bank
B. Bystson
Jones and Sons
N.Z
Sons the Manufacturing Jewellers
High Street
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Gauys
Spaug
Sears Tvewlwo
T. Young
Ulster Boot Stores
Lily
Geecor’s
Bawke’s Bay
Wanganul
Bay OF Plenty
Hawke's Bay
Devereux, King & Co, Ltd
Lichfield Street
Kaye and Carter
Phas
Chatty
Coleman
Abermain Coal
Abermain Colliery Co., Ltd
Thos
IdGa
Hereford Street
Christehinreh
Robinson's
Ashburton Ermanent Building
and ’ Envestment Society
Albert Roberts
Thomas’ Hapcox
Robert Bell
Kin Printing Offee
Burnatt Streak Ashburton
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