LOOKING BACK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9749, 14 December 1922, Page 2

LOOKING BACK

TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO.

(From the “Guardian?” Dec. 14, 1897.)

Several passengers, from Ashburton who were travelling, by the express on Monday evening were requested by the guard to cease playing cards. Not complying with the guard’s request their names were taken and the matter was reported, to the authorities. A test case will probably be made of it. The long-standing and much Vexed question of the Moore street railway crossing was ■ satisfactorily settled yesterday morning,, when the Mayor (Mr J. Sealy) formally declared the crossing open for traffic. Mr Wilson chief inspector of mines, who has just visited Mt. Feel opal fields, exhibited in Ashburton on Tuesday some good specimens of slate he had brought from the Oamaru distriAt the Tinwald yards the following prices were received for fat sheep. Shorn—4, 6, and Bth crossbred ewes and wethers, 4s ?d; crossbred 2th, 6s lid; ditto, mixed ages, 2s 9d, 3s 3d, 3s 6d, 3s Bd, 4s 6d to 4s 9d for heavy-weights; merino ewes, 2s 3d; lambs 6s 4d, 6s 6d, to 9s lOd; crossbred hoggets in wool 5s lid.