LOOKING BACK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 303, 4 October 1946, Page 2

LOOKING BACK

FIFTY YEARS SYNE (From the “Guardian,” Oct. 4, 1896). Visit of Czar to Paris—Paris is in a state of feverish excitement over the Czar and Czarina’s visit. The city is thronged with visitors and it is said that quite 40,000 people are unable to find any accommodation. Fabulous prices are paid for "windows along the route through the city, the decorations of which are on a brilliant scale. Paper foliage and blossoms have been glued to the chestnut trees on the boulevards. Arrangements have been made for a round of splendid State functions, balls, banquets, and illuminations. A review of 70,000 troops will be held at the* great military camp at Chalons. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (From the “Guardian,” Oct. 4, 1921). Blue Clay Excavated —“If I were in Westland and I saw that blue clay, I would say gold, and not gas,” said a local resident to-day speaking of hlue clay excavated from the sewer Trench in West Street. It had been stated that the cause of the discolouration was gas leakage, but he contended that it might be a natural geological formation, and one that was associated with gold on the West Coast.