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Ashburton Guardian

Location

Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand

Date

Sep 03, 1908

Page

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Christchurch Stock Market Shows Mixed Demand at Addington

The Addington market in Christchurch reported fair entries with better demand for store hoggets and wethers. Fat lambs and sheep sold lower, fat cattle steady, and pigs mostly easier except baconers. Store and dairy cattle were dull. yarding included fewer store sheep, numerous hoggets, and merino wethers. Fat cattle totalled 276 head with mixed quality and slack demand, veal calves sold 4s 6d to 50s, dairy cattle weak, and pigs listing average with stores in strong demand for weaners ahead of the daily season.

Christchurch Addington Weolk

Dunedin Stock Market Report September Sheep and Cattle Prices

At Dunedin on September 2 the yarding comprised 3874 sheep including 132 hops. Wethers and ewes sold largely at last week’s levels with best wethers 20s 6d to 8s 3d, extra to 24s 6d. fat cattle 272 yards with prime stock fairly firm, best bullocks £10 10s to £11 10s. pigs 130 penned with demand strong but prices eased due to porker and baconer influx, suckers 14s to 16s, stores 27s 5d to 31s 6d.

Dunedin

The Price of Wheat in Australasian Trade Flows

Australian flour imports to New Zealand rise with 1500 tons arriving in a week and projections of 15 000 to 16 000 tons total. Wheat surplus in Australia drives cheap flour and encourages shipments, with figures from The Australasian noting a 20 million bushel surplus and export patterns.

Wm. Evans Timaru Herald New Zealand Auckland Joseph Craig Hazel Craig Evans Napier Gisborne Australia Bluff Dunedin Lyttelton Wellington Timaru Europe South Africa Victoria Melbourne Adelaide

Justice Cooper Quashes Pakapoo Ticket Conviction

In Wellington on September 2 Mr Justice Cooper quashed the conviction of Joe Gee for selling a pakapoo ticket. Gee had been fined £100 and costs after an appeal to the Banco judges failed. The judge upheld the appeal on the grounds that particulars were missing from the order and left open the magistrate’s power to amend it.

Wellington Justice Cooper Joe Gee Williame Banco

Losses from Mackenzie snowstorm estimated at one third of stock

A MacKenzie Country resident, recently returned from the alpine region, told a Timaru reporter that the recent snowstorm likely wiped out about a third of the stock. He noted sheep died from cold and frost after long struggles and warned that dry feed could worsen losses as stock are unaccustomed to it.

Ashburton Guardian Harry Atkinson Mackenzie Country Timaru U Vually

Education Bill

The Board of Education approves the Education Bill but regrets the continued use of average attendance for salaries. It argues that teaching skill academic attainment and length of service should influence remuneration for every teacher.

Auckland Board of Education

Bar on Quinto Arrives After Long Newport News Passage

The Baron Quinto, the overdue fleet collier, reached Auckland from Newport News after a seventy five day voyage. Strong head gales and enormous seas delayed the ship but caused no damage.

Auckland Baron Quinto Newport News

Chamberlain's Pain Balm Offered To Fight Blood Poison

An advertisement urges immediate application of Chamberlain's Pain Balm after minor injuries to prevent blood poisoning and speed healing. It claims wounds heal in about one third the usual time and lists chemists and storekeepers as sellers. A secondary notice announces B D Johnston’s clearance sale of bicycles go carts golf materials tyres at Burnett street premises.

B. DB. Johnston Burnett Street

Doan's Backache Kidney Pills Promoted for Kidney Health

An advertisement claims general work efficiency depends on health and kidneys. It cites a Christchurch user Mrs Howarde who reports rapid relief from backache after using Doan's Backache Kidney Pills and Doan's laxative. The notice lists price 3s per box and supplier Voster-McClellan Co. Sydney.

Dean Christchurch Howarde Manchester Street Doan Pitt Street Sydney Doan’s

Ben Tillett Denounced as Slanderer in Mail Letter

Press Association reports in London that Mr James Boyd Victorian Trade Commissioner denounces Ben Tillett's statements as gross slander in a letter to the Daily Mail. Gales sweep England causing damage to shipping and telegraph lines. Arthur Guinness Limited offers a 100 percent bonus via 2 million new shares at £1 each. MR Kidston attended Falkirk school reunion, presented with portrait. Canadian Customs fall by £1.5 million in five months. Western Canada rush opens 30 million acres for settlement. Miners strike in Alabama disrupts, unions expect reopening. Democratic Congress in Stuttgart rejects South German social democrats Budget by 280 to 100.

London James Boyd The Daily Mail Ben Tillett England Arthur Guinness, Limited Kidston Queensland Falkirk Ottawa Canada Western Canada Regina Moosejaw Calgary Humbolt Battleford Meddeer Berlin Democratic Congress Stuttgart

Temperance Society Praises Auckland Hotels Conduct

At a City Licensing Committee meeting clerk H A G Ralfe presented a temperance society letter. It reports Auckland hotels were well run during three months, with strict closing hours and refusal of liquor to intoxicated patrons. Fleet Week praise cited. police reports aligned.

Auckland City Licensing Committee H.A. G. Ralfe Temperance Society Auckland Young Men’s Real Temperance Club Young Men’s Dyer

Woods' Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds

An 1s 61 end 2g 6d claim promotes Woods' Peppermint Cure as a universal remedy for coughs and colds with bold certainty. The ad-style note emphasizes wide effectiveness and quick relief without providing clinical details.

French burglar leaves note after break in Toulouse flat

A thief broke into a Toulouse flat, stole items including 84d from a desk, and left a typed letter praising the victim as a colleague. The note mentions translation work and mentions not taking the typewriter, with a final stray sentence about unclaimed sovereigns and coupons.

Toulouse

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