AROUND DUNEDIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5156, 15 October 1895, Page 3

AROUND DUNEDIN.

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The cycling season was opened last Saturday afternoon, when over 200 machines, with their riders, assembled in the Triangle, and a very pretty sight it was, The Mimiro Ladies' Club headed the , procession, most of them attired in Jije bloomer cycling costume, and Ttty neat they looked in their navy bluo serge knickerbockers, and long tunics to match. The great prejudice to the bloomer costume on cycles seems dying away, and quite right too. For swimmingordancing Indies usually attire themselves suitably for the exercise they intend -' indulging in, and why not a cycling costume ? All reforms, whethor of dress or otherwise, meet with much ridicule when first organised, so I suppose the cycling dress will be no exception to the role. Labour Day was most generally observed as a holiday, and crowds of pleasure seekers were rushing in all directions for trains, loaded with billies, kits, and strange looking! packots peeping out from pockets, Theprocession, which was tho feature of the day, was quite as good a turn out as it was last year. The bootmakers and tanners making the best show. The tanners, mounted on horse-back, wore coats and shoes of cow and calf skin. Tho red and

white hair on their backs giving

them a very Robinson Crusoe-like I " .iiipearance. As there were live lsWs in the procession, you can imagine how lively it was, scarcely ■ had the strains of one hand died away when anothercommeticed. The Labour Day Sports were held in the Caledonian Ground, over 40,000 persons attending them. The excursion train to Hyde was well patronized, and St. Clair and Ocean Beach * were crowded. The day was lovely until about 2 p.m., when a terrible gale (one of Wellington zephyrs possibly), blew the dustabout in clouds, and tho sand at the beach 6ont everybody homo partially blind, Jf early every other person and child we met en route having one or the other eyo bandaged, and numbers were minus their hats. ' Bland Holt is having a splendid season here. This is the third week since his opening performance, and tho theatre is packed nightly. So '.' • far their best piece has beou "A Prodigal Daughter." 'Tho title does not do credit to the piece, as it is a sporting drama. When the cSKin is drawn up in the first act -,- there are forty persons on the stage '.■'■.;,. iii riding habits and red eoats, bav- .. .inpf breakfast before the hunt, and ■■;• ijjbst admirable are all the details of .....thp breakfast tables, as there are : ; ' : .fayeral. Another splendid scene is :... the hotel w Pans') and }he gardens. ''■■■■■ iyith the Wntajns iilaying, giving ': ; 'Jpne avery.viyididea.of.a Parisipl illuminated by'the electric "light. The most exciting scene is ■..the Grand National Steeplechase)

which is run in full view of the audience, six horses taking part. The coiriedy part is taken by' Mrs Holt—whoasaquaintlittlequakercss marries a man with a penchant for baccarat and races—and follows him about everywhere, "Whither thou goost I will go," much to his discomfort and to tho nmusoment of the audience. Mr Bland Holt takes tho part of tho stable boy. "The Span of Life," that they put on tho i boards iirsfc is most admirably mounted, the principal feature being tho Living Bridge, a difficult j acrobatic feat performed by three men standing on eacli others shoulders, the top man throwing himself forward on to a rock over a deep chasm, so the three men form a bridge from one rock to another, over which the heroine crosses, Air and Mrs Bland Holtlakethecomedy part in this pieco also, and caused roars of laughter. I hope you Wnirarapa folks will not miss seeing this talented Company when thoy, ate in Wellington, one night with them will keep off the blues for a month.

General Booth is due in Dunedin from the North on the 18th inst. A monster meeting is to he held in the Garrison Hall, over which the Kev. Mr Hcwitson, of Knox Church, is to preside. The Rev. J. Gibb.of FirstChnrch, returned last week from his six months' trip to the Old Country, looking much better for his holiday. A grand tea meeting was held on Monday to welcome him back.

The opening day of the Otago Lawn Tennis Club is lixed for Saturday, the 26th inst. It is to be hoped the weather will be more settled by that time, as it is most boisterous just now.

HUItOAU S DAWIITKB AND MOSES, Whin t'haw.h's daughter Wintdown to tiowithor, Sjhuve, there was youug Moses a swiuimin'

around— Wil his baskeUll handy, Ami a t-tick of swale candy, To kec]> him from orym' uutil lie was found. Sez she to a maiden, " Bring here the young hayihen Your troltcrs be shakiu', yc lazy colleen, If the wather onee wets him, Ur the alligators get him, Its no crocodile's tears you'll be sheddin', I

men." So whiu from his swimmin' He was brought to the ivimmin—i'nith it shows how the Harney's a female's chief joy— A nate bow ho was makin', Just as shure as I'm spakiu,' " Begorta!" says she," bo's the broth of a buoy!"