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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
May 30, 1901
Page
2
Partial timetable shows trains leaving Ashburton for Christchurch at 7 20 am 11 am and 3 15 pm 7 pm express Timaru at 10 55 am 340 pm Dunedin at 12 64 pm express Springburn at 4 25 pm.
The note lists May moon phases and tidal references with times for last quarter first quarter new moon and perigee with corresponding hours and dates including apogee. It appears as a compact ephemera entry showing celestial events and tide cues.
Market reports from Sydney and Adelaide describe near halt in activity due to holidays and royal visit. Quoted prices cover Wheat, Oats, Barley, Maize, Bran, Potatoes, Onions, Butter, Creamery, Cheese, and Bacon from New Zealand and local sources with notes that figures reflect merchant retailer quotes, not broker lows.
At Addington on May 29 moderate arrivals included fat cattle with slow early demand then prices edged up. Heifers sold from 4 7s 6d to 9 10s, best beef around 64s and 6d per 100 pounds with medium 13s to 19s 3d. fat cows 14s 0d to 17s. Fat sheep 12s 4d to 14s 9d. good crossbred wethers scarce 16s 4d to 19s 4d. Store sheep about 1,200 yarded with little business. baconers sold 38 to 48s, porkers 24s 5d to 35s.
Strong turnout at the Geraldine live stock sale with about 7000 sheep entries and robust sales of hoggets and lambs. Prices ranged from 12 pence to 188 shillings, cattle included young cattle up to £1 1s, sows and weaners sold well, plus springing heifers and short horns noted in the totals.
At Burnside market 219 fat cattle yarded with few prime lots. Beach quality well bid while inferior and medium demand softer with many cattle sent to glazier markets. Prices ranged from £3 to £10 with best cows and heifers £6 to £7 1s 6d and light stock £3 to £4 6d.
The report notes public school teachers will receive end month pay at a new rate under recent scales. It questions why a nine month old legislative pledge for immediate relief to underpaid teachers has been ignored. The Premier sought a rapid, temporary increase to capitation to aid teachers now, citing urgent need and national future.
The piece argues for a fair new salary scale for teachers as Parliament opens. It notes rumours of only one quarter’s pay under the plan and calls for explanation amid rising assaults on women and children in New Zealand Hawke’s Bay, including a £100 fine controversy in Napier.
The Ashburton section reports the Ashburton Agricultural and Pastoral Association set for a June meeting to review the annual report and elect officers. Other items include Mra Elizabeth Capell found dead, police attention to typhoid and scarlet fever cases, a meeting to form a Logan Band, and updates on local minstrels performances and cargo breach notices.
The Upper Ashburton Road Board held an ordinary monthly meeting at Boardacfhire West Street. New chairman and treasurer were chosen, several correspondences discussed including road maintenance costs and hackthorne road pulsation, tenders for Tramora road work approved, and accounts totaling £156 17s 0d approved for payment.
A damaged note reports a man from Switzerland arriving at Sabin in Maly claiming intent to kill officials including Kalwer and Towle. He allegedly named others chosen to kill local leaders such as Huatena Cyioon and the Cas.
After a military review the Duke praised Major-General French for the Taaneovees and the decorations. Fifteen bonded attendees were present at a royal reception. Today features addresses and a Lieutenant-Governor dinner. In Melbourne guards found letters and poems tossed from a royal train window.
A Royal visit schedule shows the Royal party arriving Auckland 2 pm and Wellington 11 June, with events at Government House, Maori and civic addresses, foundation stones, and multiple excursions. The programme then moves to Rotorua, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Lyttelton with processions, medal presentations, and receptions through 26 June.
The report notes high demand and supply issues as the firm cannot meet orders for washing machines and boots. It states the next wash ing machine consign ment will arrive by month end and mentions Enders being sought for work.
London reports heavy Boer losses with 63 killed 36 wounded and 267 captured plus 246 rifles and 179 wagons seized. Commandants Erasmus and Pretorius lead 600 men to attack near Waterfall North while Major General Wilcott’s force is pushed toward Harrismith with light casualties. General Elliott gathers horses and cattle as clashes disrupt rail lines and a derailed train injures soldiers. Ex General Schoeman dies in an accident with a shell during Pretoria activities.
Queensland Federal representatives report the Royal assent to the Sugar Industry Guarantee Bill has been withheld over a clause banning alien labour in factories. They suspect Algar interests or imperial disfavor toward Australian stance on Japanese labour, affecting a proposed federal alien labour bill.
Constantinople telegram reports that Germany faces sharp criticism for pressing for more railway concessions in Anatolia in exchange for not supporting a European concert over a postal dispute. The note recalls prior German gains for railway construction in Asiatic Turkey.
The Methodist General Conference resolved that official precedence among religious bodies should be based on numerical strength, not titles. It urged the Federal Premier to protect New Hebrides missionaries. The Union of Methodist Churches becomes general from January, with the Methodist Church of Australasia adopted, excluding New Zealand Primitive Methodists.
The report says Count Waldersee reduced foreign occupation and a Yun nan syndicate won a loan to build a Seoul Pingyang railway. The French back the project, Emperor of Korea must sanction, and German Pekin is handed to Chinese authorities briefly. Shanghai notes 4000 Yiwei Chan insurgents in Gechaen. 3000 Yunnan troops may join. Allies pause over successors to Waldereese.
Among war honours announced on May 28 Colonel Williams of the New South Wales Medical Corps is made a Companion of the Bath and Lieutenant Colonel Kelly of the Victorian Regiment is named a Knight Commander.
The American Supreme Court rules customs dues on Porto Rican goods illegal if before acts. legal if after. The Westminster Confession of Faith faces revision by the American Presbyterian Assembly. The Hamburg American Line buys a Shanghai harbour site for docks. France pledges Morocco redress after the Pouzet murder and Algerian frontier disputes. A fatal Dayton colliery explosion in Tennessee kills twenty one and burns nine.
The Rev Richard Harding writes from Willowby Canterbury praising the region’s progress since settlement. He notes land reclamation, government improvements, thriving Canterbury mutton and a two mile railway to London. He describes Christchurch Ashburton and Willowby district growth, farming labor, revivals, and church building beside the Willowby Circuit.
Interprovincial report notes that 18 of the remounts to be shipped to South Africa next week were bought in the North Island. Imperial Remounts Commissioners praise the horses selected by the Agricultural Department. A break in at T. S. Ballick’s coffee shop last night yielded about £40 in stolen cash.
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