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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Sep 01, 1908
Page
2
The writer extends sincere thanks to customers friends and the public for liberal support over the past ten years and asks for continued backing to achieve even better results in the future.
Ashburton figure Mr A B Atkinson outlined radical remedies for New Zealand politics focusing on removing Civil Service from political control and ending public works financing from the Public Works Fund. He condemned surface reforms and pressed for deeper changes to governance and local works financing.
A Wellington deputation urged the Government to fund new Ashburton technical facilities. Officers cited rising enrolments from 262 to 402, demand for wool-classing and plumbing courses, and the need for a suitable site, with the Minister noting prior high school commitments and urging North Canterbury board guidance.
Captain Edwin forecasts northerly moderate to strong winds and a falling barometer. In Temuka district two young men trap birds for 750 in one haul. Wellington says MP C A C Hardy will tour the south end of the week to bid farewell to voters in the new Ellesmere electorate, with meetings at Brookside for Dunsandel Iillin chy Irwell and nearby areas. Applications to the Royal Humane Society of New Zealand for awards cover Douglas Hamilton who saved a woman at Gisborne and William Jones who saved Percy Martin at Port Ahwriti Napier. Captain Hawkes and Frank Thornton back Hamilton’s case.
The Invercargill Northern Union tour has been abandoned for now. Wellington’s recent Auckland trip proved financially profitable with each player earning over £9. Ashburton Football Club lists its Temuka matchup players and notes a Rugby Union meeting approving sub committee reports on laws and a schools seven-a-side tourney plan set for September with organizers Roberts, Lynskey and Pritchard.
A fragmentary verse-like note mentions a person perhaps on a railway or the sea and hints at a journey to Jericho or an uncertain path. The piece references Ass of Woods and Great Peppermint Ure in a playful, rhythmic line.
United Press reports from London note Lloyd-Georgs telegraphs urging Baptists to aid peace efforts at the Berlin Congress. A separate item describes a German torpedo-boat entering the Tyne during naval maneuvers, with repairs underway after an official explanation from Herr Hertzer. Also covered are a Paris crime roundup, a fatal Yorkshire blast furnace explosion, Governor Forts liquor enforcement threat in Atlantic City, and Japan's broad retrenchment policy spreading costs over eleven years.
The Turkish Government orders the re arrest of all bandits robbers and common law offenders who were recently liberated wholesale as reported by the Press Association from Constantinople on August 31.
The Turkish War Office will prosecute General Ahmed Aifif Pasha for extensive army frauds. The Sterbo Ottoman Democratic League issues a manifesto stating it abandons its revolutionary organization, believing the Turkish constitution provides sufficient guarantees for homeland progress.
The wire report notes on September 1 at 8 40 a m that many newspapers are being started in Turkey reflecting a wave of local media openings.
Sixty Warsaw merchants depart for London to reopen trade links with English manufacturers after a German goods boycott. The move follows pressure to shift from German to English markets and signals wartime disruption of Baltic trade.
Revolt in Tabaran reports revolutionaries in Tabriz issuing an ultimatum to the Shah. They demand a ministry drawn from revolutionaries, expulsion of reactionaries from Teheran, and a full amnesty.
General Damade announces that Mulai Hafid’s lieutenant Clawi has been defeated by the Shragua tribesmen in Morocco. The report places the setback within Hafid’s ongoing struggle for control in the region.
The Kaiser praised Europe’s peace as secure and solidly grounded by princes’ conscience and the people’s will. He cited Germany’s sea and land power and urged tranquil progress, noting historic Allied soldiers and the mutual soldier spirit across nations.
A cloud-burst at Folsom sent an eight foot wall of water through two mining camps. Twenty three bodies were recovered and many are feared dead. Miss Sarah Rook, a telephone operator, telephoned to forty subscribers to save themselves as the wall approached, but her body was later found with a telephone receiver still attached.
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