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Shannon News, 10 September 1926, Page 1

Advice from Sydney received in New Zealand is to the effect that the famous artists' ball there this year was not nearly the sensation it was last season, the whole function being marked with the utmost decorum. A former Napier resident living in Sydney says in a letter to a friend:. "There was no revelry at the ball, and everything was quiet. As a pageant the dressing was disappointing, the massed effects lacking the colour and pomp of a dance where sets marshal and hold the eye. Individually it was marked by wit and ingenuity and occasional flashes of remarkable beauty." A large party of American tourists are due in New Zealand early in the coming year. The p:irty is so large that it has been found absolutely necessary to split the party up, some visiting one resort and some another. Final arrangements have been made to take a party of 150 down the Wanganui river. A batch of 40 will leave Taumarunui 'on the. Sunday afternoon, and they will be followed by a party totalling ISOS on the Monday morning, this number being about the maximum number that can be handled at one time. Girl triplets, born to Mr. and Mrs. William Purcell, of Birmingham, are so much alike, and so equal in weight, that it has been necessary to ticket them one, two and three, in order to [tell "which is which." Residents of the Eketahuna district are often condoled with an account of their climate (or its reputation) — but it must be healthy. In support of this contention a district resident mentioned the other day that he had brought up a family of eleven, and he had never had a doc lor in the house.