MAKIKIHI. (BY A CORRESPONDENT.)

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 52, 20 May 1899, Page 4

MAKIKIHI. (BY A CORRESPONDENT.)

The weather hero is fairly settled, though ploughing and sowing are not general yet. The threshing machines are having a rough time of it in shifting, but manage to got about somehow. The returns all round are very fair. A ball given by the employees of Teams Farm, Otaio, at Mr Andrew Martin's other estate " The Grange," came off on Friday, the 12th, and although the weather was extremely boisterous, a goodly number of their friends arrived from the four surrounding districts. The ballroom (a new grain shed) was nicely deeprated with cabbage-tree ferns and wreaths of crysanthemums, and the floor was excellent. The music for the Grand March was supplied by the pipes of Mr A. Martin (sen.) after which square and round dances followed in order to the music of Mrs G. Martin (piano) and Messrs A. Martin, sr., G. Martin and Harper (violins). Mr A. Martin, jr., proved an efficient M.C. The wants of the inner man were well attended to, refreshments being handed round several times between the dances. The company was also entertained with songs by Miss Isabella Martin and Messrs Depree and Coates, a recitation by Mr Wederell and a sailor's hornpipe by Mr M'llwrick. The night's entertainment never flagged, but as all things have an end, so this party came to a close about 4 o'clock by a march played on the bagpipes by Messrs A. (jr) and G. Martin and finally " Auld Lang Syne." It is to be hoped this will not be the last dance we will Have in the same slied.