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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
2
The article covers Rev J Cocker's critique of colonial attitudes in Grimsby with New Zealand observations, the Second Ballot reading in Parliament, frost, petty arrests, fire brigade gifts, Catholic Club events, and community updates from Ashburton including gas price changes, racing club issues, hunting nuisances, and local sales and court cases.
The Daily Mail notes Wu Ting Fang the Chinese Minister at Washington faces censure for Westernizing habits. He claims a 200 year life through diet and lists rules including two meals daily, rice or whole wheat bread, vegetables, and no salt. Imperial Pekin may recall him for remarks on stage.
Received dispatches report the 1906 07 gross income of Britain at 438 million pounds with tax paid on 640 million. Over 50 000 pounds a year there were 200 incomes and 241 incomes between 10 000 and 50 000. Also noted is a fatal yacht capsize in Penobscot Bay Maine with six women and one man drowned and a Republican victory in Vermont with a 28000 vote margin. War Office in Washington orders five million pounds of corned meat from Libby Chicago, a record order. World chess: Lasker wins four, Tarrace one.
The Amazon sailing ship wrecked off Swansea Bay with coal cargo. twenty of twenty eight crew drowned after desperate struggles watched by thousands. A heavy Channel wrecks and rescues followed. The Queen excursion steamer, 160 passengers, grounded on a sand bank at Selsey Bill after steering gear failure. lifebelts and boats used, twenty eight women and three children rescued by shipmen at midnight.
Paris dispatch says tribesmen view Abdul Aziz as French Sultan and fear Mulai Hafid’s accession would trigger French departure. Correspon dent notes tribesmen’s implication that ending Abdul Aziz could prompt immediate French exit.
The North German Gazette reports Germany has told Algeciras signatories it favors swift recognition of Mulai Hafid as essential to pacifying Morocco amid the current crisis.
The Times notes German moves in Morocco trigger cross national concern. It argues the combined shocks from Dr Wassel's mission and Germany's Gepleristic step create a cumulative unease. France and Spain as European mandatories demand views before proposals, while English papers largely condemn the action. The Chronicle and Westminster Gazette reflect mixed reactions.
In Cape Town on September 1 the Cape Assembly sanctioned loans totaling £1,846,126 mainly to cover deficits. In Invercargill on September 2 J. Robertson was sentenced to nine months in prison for sheep stealing after a clemency recommendation by the jury. the judge refused probation, calling sheep stealing a crime that harms the country.
An old advertisement claims pimples and skin eruptions stem from bad blood and touts Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as a cure by purifying blood. It asserts the medicine enriches blood to form healthy tissue and promises perfect health and acne-free skin, sold by chemists and stores.
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