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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Oct 07, 1908
Page
3
London reports 1 885 000 quarters of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom and 2 050 000 quarters for the Continent. Atlantic shipments total 691 000 quarters and Pacific shipments 40 000. Wool prices remain firm with a hardening tendency.
Tomorrow afternoon a combined parade of mounted and infantry forces in South Canterbury will be inspected by Inspector-General Colonel Davis. Mounted Rifles units include South Canterbury Ashburton Studholme and Geraldine with infantry from Timaru Timaru Rifles Port Guards Ashburton Rifles Geraldine Temuka and Waimate Rifles and Timaru and Ashburton High School Cadets. The parade at the Timaru Drill Hall starts at 30 piam with field work to follow. northern regiments return by the 7 oclock express and southern detachments by a special train. A prior parade of Ashburton Rifles and Guards last night drew a full officer turnout and solid battalion drill under Sergeant-Major Healey.
Fire reports from Oamaru and Dunedin detail a mid day blaze that razed the Kurow Hotel a twenty eight room wooden structure owned by Mrs Delorgy insured for nine thousand pounds with stock insured largely in the National office. In Kaitangata another fire destroyed the Miners Union offices and Cairns tobacconist and Cuthbertson tinamith shops. Penman’s bicycle shop was pulled down to halt spread. Kaitangata lacks a fire brigade.
In Greymouth on October 7 the Otira men returned to work after a stoppage sparked by a dispute over crib time. The union was not consulted before the halt began.
Forty miners at the Blackball mine have been dismissed from bins work amid a dispute with the Government. The action reflects ongoing tensions between management and government authorities over operations and labor conditions.
Two hours after the Union Company's Pateena departed Picton for Wellington a fire broke out in the after-half of the vessel. Damage was confined to luggage and some hops from Nelson and was not extensive. The ship returned to Wellington, arriving at 2.30, the Harbour Board's chemical engine and Fire Brigade were deployed and soon extinguished. The ship sustained no damage.
At a railway crossing near Blenheim station a 13 year old boy named Leslie Goslin was struck as an engine moved past the trucks. He lost control of his bicycle and was badly hurt, described as partly disemboweled, and not expected to recover.
Hawke's Bay Jockey Club begins its spring meeting at Hastings amid drizzle and poor attendance. Sixteen bookmakers licensed. Results include Pakowai hurdles won by Aroha by two lengths, Maiden Hack won by Kopu, and King Edward Handicap won by California by six lengths. Time records noted.
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