LOOKING BACK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 21, 5 November 1940, Page 4

LOOKING BACK.

FIFTY YEARS SYNE. (From the “Guardian,” Nov. 5, 1890). The Gunpowder Plot—The Orangemen of Ashburton celebrated the “Anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot” by ( a tea meeting held on Tuesday evening in the Orange Hail. An umprecedently large number of tickets had been sold —far more than the committee had counted upon—and, had the weather been at alt suitable for country people coming in, there would have been but scant accommodation for the crowd. Tea wlas laid on four tables in the main hall and one in the anteroom, and at these in the course of the evening 150 sat down. The tables were presided over by Mesdames Mclntyre, Huston, Paget, Kerr, W. Brown, Randall, and Smith,.' • assisted -by Misses Huston (2), Mclntyre, and others. The trays were mostly provided by members of the Order.

At Mayfield—Our Mayfield! correspondent writes: “We have had a deal of nor’-west weather up here lately, hut no damage has been done. Wo have had a lot of rain, and tliei soil, being well watered, there Iras been an absence of the dust-storms of previous years* We had a heavy hailstorm on Sunday, but it was not so heavy here as about Ruapuna, wliejre much damage is reported to have been done.”

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. (From the “Guardian,” Nov. 5, 1915). Crisis in Greece—The Greek Cabinet was defeated, on-a no-confidence motion,, by 147 votes to 114. The Cabinet will resign. The immediate cause of the crisis was a remark by M. Yanakitsas (Minister of War), which M. Vendzelos considered to be an insult to the Chamber, and insisted upon tan immediate apology. Thereupon M. Zaimis declared the Government’s solidity with tho Minister of War. M. Vonjzelos, in an interview’ with a Chicago “Tribune” representative,. said;: “It is our duty to enter the war as a moral obligation to Serbia., to prevent Bulgarian predominance, and to protect the ideals of small nations against the ideals of a single great State. - Greece has all to gain ,by the Allies’ victory.”