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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 744, 5 June 1894, Page 6

‘ This room is very close,’ remarked the guest to the head waiter of a city restaurant, ‘ can’t I have a little fresh air?’ lhe well drilled automaton raised his voice to a high pitch. ‘ One air,’ he yells, adding, after a pause, ‘ Let it be fresh !’ Miss Hilda Hitchings, third daughter of the late Dr Hitchings, of Napier, is the champion tennis player of Hawke’s Bay. It is remarkable (says the New Zealand Graphic) to see one so severely handicapped by physical infirmity—for Miss Hitchings has but one arm, and that her left—display such ability. Standing five feet eleven in her shoes, she has a commanding reach. Her great forte in the game is placing. She played a match against.

Miss Speers, the present champion of New Zealand, and defeated her. Besides her tennis ability she can paint, play the piano, make all her own dresses, and writes an elegant hand, and better than all is well versed in those domestic duties which make the salt of life, and without a knowledge of which no girl can be called educated.

There’s a fuss at Featherston because the minister at one of tbechurches took the choir to task the other evening in presence of the congregation about their singing, and gave them a few lessons. Rumour hath it than in a Blenheim church on a recent Sunday, the minister reproved the choir for incessant talking. The Egyptians must have studied the art of distilling perfumes to perfection. Some of their ointment perserved in an alabaster vase in the museum at Alnwick, is said to still retain a powerful aromatic odour, though it is believed to be between 2,000 and 3,000 years old.