LOOKING BACK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 290, 14 September 1940, Page 4

LOOKING BACK.

FIFTY YEARS SYNE (From the “Guardian,” Sept. 14, 1890) ,Opening of Fishing.—To-day being the opening of the fishing season, Messrs Shury and Simpson made an early start, and within four hours time landed 13 fish, the largest of which was 21bs 4ozs. The bait used was whitebait phantoms, and the locale in the vicinity of the Ashburton bridge. ' A number of disciples of Izaak Walton proceeded from Ashburton to the Rangitata and Rakaia rivers this morning, and are expected to return with good wallets, as the rivers are in first-rate condition, and, Mr Shury informs us, full of small fish.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. (From the “Guardian,” Sept. 15, 1915) Soldiers’ Thanks. By a. recent mail from the Dardanelles' Mr F. Z. D. Ferriman received the following letter which constitutes a. graceful acknowledgement by the writers of Mr Ferriman’s gift of a flag to the parents of each lad who had volunteer for active service overseas. “Dardanelles,” Saturday, July 19, 1915. “Mr Ferriman. Dear Sir, —On behalf of the Ashburton boys here, we wish to thank you, one and all, for the handsome gifts of which oiu* parents Averc the proud recipients. We all sincerely hope some future day to return and see the good' old flag (the honour of which Ave are now upholding, AA-ith the assistance of the Allies), flying and fluttering in the breeze. We are at present enjoying a Avell-earned spell on a small island the name of which. Aveqre forbidden to mention. Thanking you once more for your generous gifts to our parents, and wishing our little town.-of .light and leading every prosperity during our absence Ave remain, a feAV of those here at present.