A House=warming Party.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 66, 17 March 1908, Page 2

A House=warming Party.

Terence Smyth, of Rossmore, Homill, had a wedding at his farm. At night some men, who had taken the precaution to disguise themselves by blacking their faces, arrived at the house, mixed with the guests, and generally made merry. They danced and sang, and Mr. Smyth gave ihcm refreshments. Probably he regretted having done so, when it I was time for everybody to go home, as I quietly as an Irish party can be expected to move, the uninvited guests with the black faces declined to budge. Their main arguments for staying were hedge knives and iron bars, but after some discussion they graciously consented to go. Their desire for simp'e, innocent fun. however, led them to knock over the garden walls, turn the cattle loose, and generally upset the place. Later on they turned the wedding party into a house-warming party by the simple process of setting a large hay-rick alight. Subsequently Mr. Smyth, at Carrick-on-Shunnon. tried to recover £100 for the I burning of his hay, but .Ridge Drummond I held that the burning was not malicious, and dismissed the claim.