SUMNER.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9604, 19 December 1896, Page 5

SUMNER.

[FROM OUR OWN OOBBBSPO£(D-__Tf.] - Picnics and the holidays have made us very lively the last week. The other day the Ladbrook school was here, on Thursday the school from Halswell held itspicnio at Sumner, and yesterday we had 1200 Or 1500 of the Sydenham school with parents and teachers roaming over the rooks, keeping the donkeys well employed, digging in the sands on the beach and exploring the grassy streets and the hills. It was a sight to see them arrive, Dickens would have reveDed ia the description of it. First there were the boilers for the tea, .reesels for tables, and materials for two mar* quees. A charming section, bordered with well-grown trees, in Nayland street was placed at their disposal or taken possession of for them. : After the boilers, etc., came an express load of buckets, tinware, and all the sundry small articles belonging to the commisariat. Then came the picnickers themselves, and a happier* looking collection I never saw. Every possible arrangement for their comfort seemed to have been made. Old and young—and I should think they ranged from six months old to sixty years—appeared bent on enjoying themselves, and tbey succeeded to per- , fection. The day was lovely, and not a single hitch occurred. At the smoke concert on Thursday night, Mr Kitson's speech of thanks for the comEliment paid him was amusing. He sketched is original difficulties in reaching Christ* church forty years and more ago from England. How he got out to Melbourne, and from thereafter much troublo made his way to Auckland. But even then he did w* seem practically to have got any nearer to Canterbury, communication between here and the north being such a difficulty in those times. Indeed, he was strongly * recommended to return to England, ana start again from there for Canterbury, as that would be his quickest route. But he couldn't make up his tmnd to that, and after some delay he took passage in a schooner coming south. His troubles were not over then, though, for bad weather and contrary winds detained them three months on the trip, and at length tho vessel putting in. to Kaikoura for shelter, he determined to land add finish the journey on foot. So that, after all, he actually walked to Canterbury. The Sumner District School played a match with the Sydenham boys yesterday, on the* ground in the square, arid as they usually do when at horhe, they gave the visitors ia good beating. We seem no nearer getting rid of the nuisance caused by the old oaths., The Eroprietor has been told to remove them, ut has as yet made no move in that direction. The Borough Council has appealed to the Harbour Board, and that obdy has threatened all .'sorts of things, but still nothing is done. We are very long suffering, but not quite angelio yet, and'some energetic language and warm wishes are the consequence. ••'•_.... Oh, those broken bottles ! Why. ,*tf_l people who come down here on holidays break on the beach and in the streets the bottles they bring down with them, but won't take the trouble to take back with them ? Nearly all the children here run about bare-footed, and several of them lately had their feet "very badly cut by broken bottles; which really seem strewn everywhere. Please, kind visitors, remember the children and don't break your . bottles ! ..'."■ The Snmner Dramatic G_ub - feels a little sore at some remarks made,' doubtless without any intention of reflecting on them, by the Prkss, about their part of a recent entertainment given in the Opera .House.' It was not the Clnb's fault that/their . dialogue and sr.me (»ong«t were. . nwcliWftt*., f the audience. (That audience W.J;,. composed of e.l_<___n. » h VSST& ®_?'- ---noiw y the stage- co.ihl h*«btf rjgg,gg, {$ hi best anmtouwJn wfi/ftuid, » si&^S hard.,'

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