EKETAHUNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2964, 31 July 1888, Page 2

EKETAHUNA.

i'l (From a Ooirespondeul) > f \^ I'huis the most flourishing district. -foi niutl—that I w.H ever ni. What htia become or the licoiibo fees! The'/'' road from Alfredttn to here is nnpissable. One traveller says that ■.-! liis houe went down with him the ,'jn middle of. tlio toad clean over head and -fi shoulders, but as neither were clean ,l % whin I saw them, I told him he must i be joking. _ \ ,„•> 'V, It is vciy little better* hejJT what I |% with the mud, rod the tiKurom the ?$ houas running to the road icmaining thore, Lkelab-vna, from -y-\' being one of the hoalthiesfi*\gelting one of the unhealtliiest is in ut state of geneinl Bicknens just /}?; now, what it will be in the summer J '$ lu\e you to guess. ..(*jj[ Theie is nothing but rani day after diy, and it doosn't seijiri to be to le.ivu off. I hear there has been a summons taken out against our school- '}, imißtir foi thrashing a boy. Thocase ")f will be heaid on the Ist August. \ *c, Piofussor Lenson paid a visit on - y j Fiidnj, the 2Gth mat., to the Masteiton Skating Carnival, and on his return Jl* deteimined to get one up here that/; k woiihl knock yours into h cooked bat/_it'i I think he has accomplished tbat"'£.£ dibiie, pidging by the extiaordmary (1) talent, displayed lust night. Here is , , the Hill-oWare: Skating Oatinivaij.—,-y£ Under the Pattonago of His HigbA i«, Miglnincsss the Sultan' of Ek, who - "ij has giaeiously promised to look in at *) 030 p.m.—Thepublio will be admitted '* on payment of a tanner; skaters, one • boli, Thero were about n'fteeniiilers *> on the floor, and a large and ajiprccMtivo audience, to the nunibejlfrf'ttbout' *. twenty deadheads only scits in the Hall. Considerable v ingenuity nnd oxpense had been ' expended oici some of tho make-ups. ' * The most prominent characters were as follows: —Millington, female larri- - km,dicused to kill; Marsh, clown,, ~ gmto natuial, Ponney, Salem Scudder, , black face, etc , Clifton, negro girl, \iry well impetsonated; Professor ' JiuMii. Sen bo, not bad; Betty ,' policcuinu, good make up, best on the floor, but policemen do nit..-smoke','..■%; while on duty; Costa, giantess, this:-"!£ charactor came to gri?f during evening, through being unable to the improver on,' greatly to amusement of tho audience; Brigand, the-way ho 'staggered about\i'S| was a caution to .snakes, and was;;^ ; entirely out of place, he should have/fSj taken the character of the New masher; MoCauley,' drunken quite at home in the part; , Hodges Jf! was going as an old man, tot- Betty "Si. : l told him that jf Chiukey ho would; only costume, v 1; ~ 'Tw'-^s-?Fvf