MOUNT SOMERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1874, 22 June 1888, Page 3

MOUNT SOMERS.

(From odr ows Co^bebfonbsni.) On Sunday last the Rev. Mr Flnlaysoo held a, oommanion service at Moont Somera. A vety large audtenoa listened Attentively to an eloquent and telling ■sermon. A number of communicants Mailed themselves of the opportunity, the first one offered to the ohuroh peop!e of -the district for some years, of partaking of tha Lord's Supper. Tha weather np here is {delightful — bracing, yet mild. Your readers may I jadge of its mildness from the fact that Miss Alice Price of the " Lodge," showed me a full-grown straw berry of a large sfze which, one of many others, had ripened quite lately. The strawberry plants at the "Lodge" are said to be In. foil bloom* The ingenious owners of that enviable little " Lodge " lire said to have also a wonderfully good assortment of cz'ery ware on hand Their baskets •re much admired for tbeir excellence, ■ while the prices aeked for them seem to A be very moderate. Our bachelors «ro bestirring themselves. They are going to have a ball on Friday, Jane 29th. Great preparations are going on for the occ«ilon. Our young ladies muit he glad to ccc their single gentlemen friends so willing to take partners for a few merry hoari, if not for life. Bat hakken oh ye baohelore I Thus said Mr Bruce, M.O .B. " I iutend to suggest to Government the advisability of imposing • tax of £1(00) a bead on all bachelors between tbe ages of 21 and 50." Ton know how to escape that tax I Open tbe campaign on June 29th to the tune of the fiddle. Bepent of your singleness ] Dance lightly acd as gracefully as you can Into the bliss of matrimony 1 In short : pop the question and fix the day 1