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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
May 30, 1908
Page
2
Athens reports the Porte violated the international treaty by sending troops to Samos after the Governor refused to summon the Assembly. Fighting continues with about 100 killed or wounded. The Governor's residence is besieged and troops hold the barracks as the Porte demands the Greek Consul's recall.
A Auckland railway crossing keeper Robert H Hanson aged 60 was struck by an engine about to couple to a train. He suffered serious injuries including fractures of both legs. In Napier Robert Rowland Durrant longtime Government railway engine driver died in his sleep aged about 58. Christchurch reported a young man McKinley was kicked by a horse breaking it and sustained rib fractures. In Bluff the inquest into Sylvester Miles Cotter’s drowning verdict found he was found drowned.
The Bourke murder charge hearing before Mr Raw son S.M. continued with prosecution and defence counsel. Evidence centered on whether the accused were at Victoria Theatre from five minutes to eight and the transfer of Bourke by Connelly from Ayer's Hotel around eight. The Crown presented rebutting evidence and the magistrate reserved his decision on committing the accused for trial.
In Christchurch on May 29 a married woman Bessie Blakeway killed herself at her Yaldhurst Road home. Her husband found her body in the orchard with a two inch throat wound and a blood stained knife nearby. An inquest returned a verdict of death by own action while of unsound mind.
Captain Farquhar, mariage superintendant of the Northern Company, and Mr D. Gouk report the Marital wrecked in a trench of the Big Chicken. Water pours in, hull breached, stern at water level, ship breaking up with wreckage lining the shore. Recovery chances hinge on deck and engine room salvage.
The Blackball Miners Union decides to cancel registration and withdraw from the Arbitration Court on May 30, Greymouth.
The Tinwald Town Board met last evening with present T Williams chairs and three others. An apology was received for Mr Gee and leave of absence granted. Ashburton County Council requests Charitable Aid and Hospital Board £17 4s 6d. balance sheet accepted and copies posted publicly. Open Charles Street for traffic. occupiers to be notified. Rates questioned. inspector notes sanitary state satisfactory. Advertisement seeks a man with two horses and dray for odd jobs. three months’ work guaranteed. Accounts of £8 16s 8d 1d passed.
In Dunedin in May 80 Sir James Mills sails to Vancouver aboard the Marama. While Mills is away for several months, Mr Holds worth will take over the general management of the Union Company.
The Tongariro reached Montevideo yesterday at 6 a.m. after a voyage under the New Zealand Shipping Company. The notice confirms the vessel’s arrival time and port of call.
A New Zealand chemists conference in Wellington on June 9 will cover commercial scientific and legal topics including the Poisons Act the Anti-Quackery Bill and the Pure Food act. The meeting aims to form a federation linking all pharmaceutical associations.
The National Mor Company reports on crossbred livestock with advances on opening prices. Merinas and fine crossbreds rise 2 percent, medium crossbreds 24 percent, suitable for America 20 percent, coarse crossbreds 17 percent.
The firm held its ordinary weekly sale with large attendance listing entries across poultry pigs cattle and produce. Poultry roosters ducks hens sold at various shillings per pair and per liveweight while pigs and cattle showed prices from 50s to £3 and £4 123 Gd respectively. Produce included potatoes wheat barley carrots and fruit with prices given per sack or per pound and meat prices for mutton beef and lamb per pound.
Large crowds attended the weekly sale conducted by Mr H Stephenson at his Havelock street mart. The entry and lots were sold at quoted prices for poultry, produce, fruit, sundries, and a horse, with items ranging from hens and purebred fowls to potatoes, carrots, wheat, onions, apples, and empty sacks. Prices included hens 1s 7d to 2s 3d per pair, roosters 2s 3d, weaners 9s 3d to 10s, baconers up to £2 15s, potatoes 1s to 8s 0d, apples ds per bag, and a horse sold with sundries.
In Dunedin on May 30 a British team prepared for a football match with a list of English players including Griffiths Gibbs Vasgall Jones Chapman Morgan Davey Dibble Oldham Morgan Jackson Smith Archer Ritson Dykes. Ashburton County selects a squad for a June 4 representative game against Ellesmere at Christchurch listing McKenzie Curiverhouse Page McFedries Fitzgerald Thomas Gillingham McKenzie Orr Fittock Virtue Patterson Bonifant Smith Macdonald Burrows Childs Hannigan.
London dispatch notes Azores, bred on dried milk, among Derby contenders. An Empire Day Celebration Committee meeting approved payments and a permanent future panel to apply for the Domain next year. Air W. G. Hillier suffered a fingertip injury while guarding machinery. Captain Edwin forecasts northerly winds, falling barometer, and probable rain.
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