WAVERLEY.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 525, 27 May 1880, Page 3

WAVERLEY.

[if U0 M OUR CORRKS PON DE X T.j Racecourse. —So soon as the course is pegged off, there is to be a grand ploughing bee, and the Wavcrley course will bo much improved by next meeting. The Racing Club will doubtless take some public opportunity of expressing appreciation of the liberality of Messrs Morcton and Lupton, in having given the free use of 12 acres of land, in order that the racecourse might be maintained intact under their lease. Out-door Work has been very much hindered during the last fortnight. The railway workings have been also considerably retarded all along the line, and there seems to be little prospect of the weather clearing up. With low wages and broken time, this is to be a hard winter for the laborer. The Ball which came off at the Town Hall on the Queen’s Birthday, had been looked forward to with no ordinary interest, as it is only those who are privileged to be present at a Wavcrley reunion that can appreciate the hearty enjoyment of these local gatherings. The weather certainly was not propitious, but it had not the effect of keeping many away. The ball was held in the Town Hall, which it is needless to state is one of the finest structures on the West Coast. The floor had been well prepared, but dancing did not commence promptly, as the musician, Mr Armstrong, was delayed through the road from Wanganui being impassable atone point. It was past ten o’clock when the music struck up, but the business of the evening being once begun, it went on with brisk enjoyment, and a spirit of genial pleasure pervaded the company. Quadrilles and round dances succeeded each other till some unmentionable hour in the morning; and it is not too much to say that a more sociable gathering was never before held in the district. Captain Walkinton acted as M. C., and his suavity towards visitors from a distance made them almost unconscious of their disadvantage. Mr Taylor was unremittingly attentive to the guests in seeing that their appetites lacked nothing. It is understood that some of the genial Benedicts of Wavcrley district have formed themselves into a committee for organizing a return ball, to be held on the 4th July, and they are confidently anticipating that this will be an event to be remembered in local annals.