Good Friday.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2568, 9 April 1887, Page 2

Good Friday.

At an early faqur : yesterday morning Masterton was.' alive with the soimd of . vehicles, everything that could he drawn , by,a,horse was brought into requisition/from the dilapidated heartbroken two-wheeler to. the tnore pretentious waggonette, each aiid all containing a full complement of sanguine sportsmen, who with shot and powder, gun and dog, we'roto play, havoc among everything creeping -and flying, from. ■ the lively fantail to the destructive hawk, not forgetting the numerous and frisky rabbit,' But there was. a direful waste-of "ammunition-the fantails were -most annoyingly lively, the hawks .smelt, the powder afar .off, the pigeons flew high and the rabbits were very much scaroy, the consequence was oijv sportsmen, returned with, light burdens and dejected appearances,, Ono.party (piem bars' of our rifle corps) had uothing but empty , cartridge cases iu'lhpir bag's, and snob is the love of sport that another, rather' than return empty handed, bought a pair, of rabbits from some ■'boys who had been more; successful with their dogs.' than the sports had been with then-guns,'the latter taking the [)i'ecaiitioii'"to discharge the contents of their guns into .the poor Bunnies so as to fully deceive their friends at home. And these are some of our gallant defenders!" By the first down train a large number of holiday makers left Masterton, including footballers, pic : nic parties, and others going away for lengthy trips. ■ The up train brought a •• full contingent of visitors who were-well'scattered about the district, a large number of sportsmen going through to Mangamahoe, and as '■ they had • swags of rather large dimensions, they were eyidently bent upon camping out, and making a regular holiday of it,; Among the picnic parties':' about Masterton the most extensive 7 was 'the' One held by, tho Salvation Army, the Band addingsomewhat totneattraction, and judging by the machine like boom ; of the drum, the musicians must have ) kept going pretty well all day without

ceasing, In town the silence was almost prisonlike, tho streets wore. o very deserted aspect, and the one or two shop's that were .opened seemed to add to the gloom, and it was only on .the arrival or departure ot the trains that- anything, like; life was infusod into tbe streetß. ■ •■ '-..■'.

; . The MasJerto£Red Mi footballiM^'• : •• paida visit to and tried!^^''" the■Eplim 'home: scored '■: v..-. -,;'. against." 'TheStars w &? """ aEeaij of their pj«y» ; '• ' ':'. but® -tbe'iKnie .team'';; : )] ■.:.'■ seeing how things were - to go, if.-"'; C; the', game became loosu maidfit'a strict*" .' ' '•■'.'.;, ly forward one, with the result: that, itended in a draw. ■■"'... mki