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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Sep 22, 1908
Page
2
Dominion Birthday observes September 26 as a Test and Telegraph Office holiday. Post Offices open 7 to 8 p.m. Friday for delivery only and 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday. Telegraph Offices operate various hours. Telephone Exchanges open from early morning until midnight. All mails close at 7 a.m. Saturday.
The piece argues Matthew Arnold on Celtic enduring force in British writing and praises Ireland’s Sinn Fein as a model for national integrity and independent press. It laments sensationalist newspapers while supporting a future Sinn Fein daily to chronicle humane progress and defend cultural values.
Mr W Nosworthy will address the Gleeters at the Oddfellows Hall Ashburton on October 7 and at Geraldine on October 1. Additional meetings will be advertised in the Mail and Guardian.
Messrs Friedlander Bros report selling for Mr Ace Allan of Dromore his four year old Clydesdale colt Young Commander for £200 to a West Coast buyer. The Ashburton County Press Band enters for Christchurch contest in January. Dominion Day closures affect Christchurch Lyttelton and Ashburton railway goods sheds and Lyttelton wharves. Timaru court clerk salary rises to £300. Eng land’s Mr H Gollan organizes 20000 acres cutting at Mangatarata estate Hawke’s Bay next month. Fifteenth anniversary of women's franchise celebrated at Waimate. Miss M Carthy speaks on suffrage history since 1843. Patents include Hewson improved joint for railway rails. Auckland Herald notes brisk business for general distributors with stock declines signaling summer trade opening. Local Winton Record finds £6 cheque and three £1 notes hidden in cash register from 1906. London correspondent reports Langley family holidaying in England en route to Antipodes. Railway code proposal for station codes to aid addressing and tracing shipments.
A morning blaze at Racecourse Road destroyed Mr C N Grigg’s Zetland Lodge stables and contents including ten racehorses. Seven horses were saved. Restless and Interpreter perished, Step Up narrowly escaped. fire brigade from Ashburton arrived too late to halt the damage. Insured stables valued £525, plus outbuildings and feed stock, leaving Mr Grigg out of pocket over £1300.
At Napier on September 21 the inquest into Alexander Andrews aged sixty eight found dead at Puketape on Saturday, medical evidence cited heart disease as the cause. Andrews, a native of Belfast, had no known relatives in New Zealand. Also on September 21 at Wainui, a man named Hasket remained missing from his Hook district home since Monday, with a large search party scouring the area yesterday.
Alfred Banks of the Banks Meat Company died yesterday from heart disease at age fifty seven after a long illness. He was a well known horse-owner racing several horses in his colours including Umslopo gaas Hatley and Pytchley among others.
J Wolfe expired by exhaustion after fifteen hours in the Channel near Calais. Oxygen was administered several times as he neared the French coast.
Messrs F Maddison D A Shackleton W Crooke and W D Ward of the House of Commons visit Berlin with a Labour delegation. They address 20 000 and 1 000 peace demonstrations urging concord and mutual cooperation to curb Chauvinism and safeguard peace.
Berlin reports that the Inter-Parliamentary Congress urged compulsory arbitration and an international agreement to treat only arms and munitions as contraband. It supported open harbours and private property immunity, and backed Laurier’s 1909 Quebec meeting. Exchange with the Kaiser’s circle praised peaceful aims.
In September New York Hearst publicized letters from Archbold of the Standard Oil Trust to Senators Woraker Sibley Bailey and Maskell alleging financial ties while in office. Owners say letters stolen. Foraker cites legal fees not linked to legislation. Bryan launches New York campaign attacking Roosevelt dynasty practice.
Hearst in New York blasts both Republican and Democratic parties as servants of a criminal trust. The disclosures threaten Senator Foraker's career while Mr Gryan's stirring speeches boost his bid for the presidency.
The Funnies and Withy Company plans to close its Hartlepool shipbuilding branch due to ongoing labour troubles and losses. A conference of shipbuilding trade unions’ representatives will be convened on October 7 to propose a scheme to end the ruinous sectional disputes.
Reuters reports in Lisbon that a deliberate act opened the bulls' enclosure gates in the arena at Nouta. Twenty two bulls escaped, killing several people and injuring forty. Soldiers then shot ten of the bulls to stop the danger.
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