SINKING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 150, 21 September 1881, Page 4

SINKING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAB.

Sib, — To those whose gastric juice is out of order, and as a consequence are troubled with spleen, megrims, and dyspepsia, I would advise a visit to our Hawera rink, on "Wednesday and Saturday evenings, where the attempts of the new chum aspirant rinkists are sufficient to provoke the risible faculties of the most hypochondriacal of humanity. I rink, and attend regularly, and each evening enjoy myself throughly. "We have a couple of adepts in our midst, and •quite a host of budding rinkists, male and female, the ladies especially appearing to enter into the fun with more zest, and to be more ambitious than the lords of creation to excel in the graceful and exhilerating art, and they invariably lean the more quickly of the two. It is such fun to witne»9 iihe beginners h-anbicaTly struggling, gasping, panting, pushing perspiring, and tumbling continually, in every direction, endeavoring to emulate the more advanced rinkists. The most sober, the most staid, the most solemn, morose, austere, and misanthropical, all after paying the ■rink a visit, try their hands (feet is the word.) A vain innate feeling of their own powers and skill generally deludes even the most cautious, into the idea that they are quite able to gracefully sway to and fro for their lady friends to admire their symmetrical proportions. B ut, alas, some philosopher has said " realisation Beldom satisfies expectation," and to their chagrin, they find that their rinking debut is not a success, but a sad exemplification of the proverb that " Pride comes before a fall." In a future issue of the Stab, I propose to attempt to describe some of the indiscribable attempts at rinking on the part of our Hawera Society, and how they sit down.

KINKIST.

No less seven applications for diamond drills were recently made at Melbourne on one day. The Minister for Mines announced that he would have four additional drills made shortly.