Mataura News

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 2, 8 April 1893, Page 15

Mataura News

The Easter holidays passed off very quietly. On Easter Monday the town was almost entirely deserted. Notwithstanding the raw foggy morning, many took advantage of the excursion to Bivertou, while others travelled the other way and spent the day at the Gore Hibernian sports. Good sport with the gun can be had about here, and on Monday last not a tew shouldered the game bag. Messrs Humphries, ■Williams, and Stickles, forming a party, bagged thirty-two birds, Messrs Gardiner and Lawric thirty-five, and Messrs Cameron and Sinclair thirty. A party of Dunedin sportsmen obtained a good bag, but had the misfortune to meet with an accident to their vehicle, which necessitated their walking home —a distance of fifteen miles. The local band, under Mr Bailey’s tuition, are making rapid progress. Although only some six weeks since its organisation, the band is able to play creditably. It accompanied the Mataura amateurs to Wyndham on Eriday last. The freezing works and races are completed, or nearly so ; and of the hundred and thirty men or thereabout who were employed in their construction, only some twenty now remain. The race and weir form the chief attraction on Sunday afternoons, the banks of the river having ’quite an animated appearance from the numbers of people who turn out for an airing and to see what has been accomplished by the army of workers.