EKETAHUNA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3065, 27 November 1888, Page 2

EKETAHUNA.

(From Our Own Correspondent), \ Strange weather we are getting. , It has bebu about • Uio coldest week I we have had this last two months; I high cold winds with heavy rain that . has played old gooseberry with the ! fruit trees, Iseothore is plenty, of , snow on the ranges; Saturday wo ■ bad a heavy fall of hail, with a hard ; frost afterwards that has completely ■ destroyed - tho Pahiatua I Thove is a new Society started hero i lately under the style and title of the Eketahuna Mutual Approbation Society.. They gave a concert on Wednesday last, November 21st, and it was quite a success from a pecuniary poiutof view. The public knowingthat great preparation and practising had been going on for the last eight weeks looked forward to something above the common. Well they were not disappointed if one may judge from the, expressions mado'ta of after the performance, The audience came from the surrounding districts, even from Mauricoville. The schoolroom was crammed to excoss, a large number was unable to gain admittance, in fact it was the largest gathering I havo seen ever hero, The chargo being one shilling tho Eketahuna Mutual Approbation-Society must havo taken quite sufficient to pay off all their old debts-that is if there were no dead heads amongst them. The. performance was one of the most extraordinary get ups that ever I saw. Tho cry_ all over the town the noxt morning was "How are your.tccth '!" I made an attempts eat a chop for breakfast, but had to givo it up. Our visiting dentist, Mr Umcsbury will havo plenty of work' to do tho next lime lie comes herd The first item on the prograumio was | asongbyMrDeadman •'Sitting on the stylo", This was the best song of the evening; Mrs Jones and Miss Freethys duet was. also ono of tlio best things on the programme. 1 recitation by a geullemaii followed. 1 wish ho would change it for something feli; we don't want to hear the same old thing over and over, again. The peculiar manrier in which lie spoke led me to think that he must have been trying to swallow oneof.' Mr Murell's eggs and it had atnck'mv "i his throat. Dowsott and Hodder,: i duot :■ I don't know what it was about i hut 'someone sitting next to m j offered me a pooket handkerchief, to < give to them: I refused,! The next i song,' Boniotbiugabout.R garden, and ',< turnips; one hundred andiftyS'ersei i mHhe|co}kge ,t

with tlio turhipa.' tbo audionce to let.iiiiu-lmow -wliere''• he could get some BeS'powderj^oor* :■& fellow, b;e;;felt:;?adly':m,neeliof : it;S- -; Oubois'.stumpßpoeoli in'iaßptei' ■ was well done; -This gentleman," iiL ''•': respoiiso tb. a call,':gave;tho song ; . : :V .■"■■ Up .: side;'down' I 'wbicli', put : tbe :: i audience in a good temper, but they -', suffered ajelapsa in the next item. Tbls was followed 'by a 'quar-- J tette: of all the horrible discords that - I evor listened to., tbis took the ■ ■ prize. Some,of the audience was ,".'■ taken ill arfd had.'to leave, .'h He got on a little better in tbo next item. Mr Betty, tlieu sang "The '.i* Ship; that'. Never .Returns,", Tliis HJjpj singer greatly surprised ine; be a goodppassablye y voice, and any ' : S amount of i&eeLexcept when be is ■■, •'v placed before im audience, and then be is troubled 'with uervousness. '■■■>*. Sentimental song; -1 don't know tbo :; name of this effort, but judging by ''.' Hie sound,' one would fancy that' it was produced with, a comb and a piece of tissue paper. Hodey, reading': This was about aWftit to " Brigham • Young," and I was astonished to bear a church-goer '.•' read such a thing.;'; Fancy a man getting up before •■'a; respectable audience with a black oye.; bereports ; that it was an accident in thecricketI Mil. Mr Bailin's recitation "The Furuicr," : was the best given during ' • the evening. :;■ Two gentlemen conj.tributed a duet, something-about " Tural-ural," but" this coming; so ' soon after the quartette put aset on the audience, who mado a. rußh for . '■',.■ the door, but were stopped at the ' ■■', entrance, and politely asked to recogL. a vote of thanks to the singers.' ■; -*? P.S.—lhave heard on excellent : authority that the'E;M.A,S. liavo ''-■> made arrangements to give it. series of concerts, hf"Wellington during. ( Christmas week.. "' '! ■•■'