GOOD FRIDAY.
The weather yesterday was beautifully fine and holiday-makers took fyll advantage of it for paying visits to distant friends, quiet picnics, and shooting excursions, In the Wairarapa the towns were almost deserted, but the sound of distant guns could be heard in all directions. The train from Wellington brought up a large number of visitors, many of them intent upon assisting to exterminate the rabbit pest, and thin the number of wild pigeons, and extraordinary bags are reported this morning. / A scratch match between members of the Masterton Volunteer Corps took place
ill illti b ills. ' : oi'.i'p'.i «s/o piukwl by Vol, Anketell aud Vol. Kuinmer, seven raon ;each. 'Thelatter'sjside won by .twenty -points,A'private 'matoh took place betweeniieut. Donald and Vol. Anketell, when the latter made 56 and. the former 50points, | - 1 ' Mftny. pei'soriß the day as sacred as Sunday,.land- were' well attended morning-tad' evening. Though ao many persons were out ahootingrwe have riot heard -of-any--acci-dent) and tho day 'appears to have been passed'harmoniously by all according to their various tastes; """"""
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 8 April 1882, Page 2
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172GOOD FRIDAY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 8 April 1882, Page 2
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