THE MEMBER'S VISIT TO WESTPORT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4242, 13 October 1892, Page 3

THE MEMBER'S VISIT TO WESTPORT.

(CforkslonßtraU.)

A dog fight would hardly bring fogother ouch an enthusiastic crowd of Wcstport's citizens as the ono that assembled on tho wharf on Sunday morning last to greet the arrival of the Government pleasure yacht Hinemoa, and her precious freight of Parliamentary orators, It was truly a great and representative gathering. The whitebait dredgers, and rag and bottle men, with their coal-coloured moles and bine baize overalls, mingled freely with the opulence and dignity of the town which sported celuloid shirt fronts, green hidobelltoppers and No, 11 shoes. The kitchen pot wollopper too, with her blue mottled elbows, was there in abundance, and rang out huveulcet cotes of welcome ou the DW/ing zephyrs with as much enthusiasm as her moro favoured sister with the sealskin ulster, moire antique skirt, and pink complexion. Asthestoamer came up the river the majestic forms of Inangahua's idol, and Westport's Only General could be easily discerned among tho crush of oratorical talent on the quarter-deck, and as'she drew up alongside the wharf tho yelling commenced, and was kept up, spasmodically, until the \ distinguished visitors were more than half way to tho Mokihinui in the train. The male portion of the party, with the exception of Eugene and Richard, were very ordinary looking specimens of humauity, but their stylo of architecture and general make up can- t voyed the impression that they had enough carrying capacity for all the hospitality that the Buller could shovo into them, plain or ornamental, liquid or solid, Tho ladies who accompanied the party had nothing in their ajfcarar.ee that would prompt auy ' oipjary man to throw himself on all ' fours, and kiss the heels of their j goloshes, we needn't say any more. : Tho team was banquettedat Mohi- • hinui, Denniston, and Waimangaroa on Sunday, and would have been ; treated to a smoke concert at the latter place by the Anti-Shouting ' Society but they hadn't time to wait. At each and overy one of the gas- ' tronomic shivoos the members of the team acquitted themselveswith credit, and the eulogistic slobber of the spokesman was, on every oocasion, up tospeciGcationsr On Monday the team visited Cape Foulwind, and was deputationed at ' Rosenburg's Hall by a detachment of the residents relative to tho necessity of lotting tho whole of tho work in connection with the training walls at once, and thereby find employment for the idle men, Ono ol team, a Mr Hogg, said that the work tbero would ' be only of a temporary nature, and ' advised tho men to immigrate to the | fetffe lands of the North Island and HlftOcockatooing, as it was a game ' that would develop tho musclo and ' improve the mind. The meeting then f concluded with a hymn. _ ' The team was entertained in the . evening at a seven uud sixpenny • gastronomic go-as-you-please at J Hughes' Hall, This event '\m the J laU-of its kind on the programme ' tjmhe team being hungry after the • day's outing, wired in systematically. His Worship the Mayor presided, and by the way be glanced round the festive board it waß evident that be I was making a mental calculation of 1 the number of paying guests present, andjudging by his looks he did not appear satisfied with the survey, Hogg is credited with stowing away a suckiDg pig, a half a ham, a big dish I of mashed spads, the hind ondof a j turkey, a basin of blanc mango, and a small river of liquids. Colonel Fraser , is said to bavo put away a foar year i old drake, a foro quarter of mutton, a j roostor, two quarts ol gravy, a small j ioafjund as much moistening as Hogg, , WhsTSmith negotiated a sirloin of 1 beef, a dish of brawn, a Malay hen, 1 and several other appetisiug freaks, j The rest of the team did equally , effective work, i

Lalet in the. evening they were treated to a terpsichorean flutter at the Princess Theatre, but being too much loaded their efforts were vory slow and uncertain, and after, a few wobbles round Hie room they gavo it up, and started for their j bunks on the steamer, Ted Issell is reported to have been the recipient of all tho coin the team left behind, He sold a packet ol Old Judge cigarettes to Colonel Frdaer, and shaved Smith for half price, but tbfe can hsrdty be founded on[faot,