RINKOMANIA AT RAKAIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1858, 4 June 1888, Page 3

RINKOMANIA AT RAKAIA.

(.TBOH A COERESPONDKNT.) I We've got 'em again, yes, "Skates £3 • m." and everyone h»s 'em on. On Friday * night the Bakaia Bioking Club had their * opening night at the Towd Hall, and the 4 attendance was good. Skates wire to be = had m plenty ; Borne came to gyrate, £ some to laugh, and all to enjoy them- * selves, and to judge from the pleasant x countenances of young and old, they sue- { ceeded admirably. Of conree there were * the usual number of flops on the floor, ( with the inevitable laugh from the lookers- ! on,— the others linkers don't laugh a« a l rule at the sudden collapse of one of their * camber, they are too busy attending to , c their own affairs, not knowing wh<m their * own turn may come to measure their * length on the floor. There were skates of ' all descriptions, from the modest fifteen * shilling Lightband to the patent stem- ' winder, double-backed action Eureka, all < nickel plated, for forty shillings. The £ banker and the butcher, the publican and ' the pea merchant, the miller and the - mercer all had 'em on, and vied one with 1 another to see who could get round the j room without a fall, and, as a faithful ' chronicler of events, lam sorry to say no < one succeeded. Non-members were met j at the door by a wall-eyed Cerberus, who f sternly demanded a fee, and no amount of ' soft sawder would induce him to pass you < without it. " Free list entirely suspended, ] Press included," was his constant and ' only cry. The rink was kept open till 10 : p.m., and thus passed one of the most : pleasant evenings it has been my lot to witness here. A word of praise is due to : those gentlemen who went to the trouble of forming the Clnb, •which promises to be one of the moat successful venture? m the way of pleasure that has been started here. «______________