LAKE WAKATIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 306, 9 January 1875, Page 3

LAKE WAKATIP.

(Prom our own correspondent.)

". January 4, ] 875- ... B%bt heartily do I wish yourself andrcad.er* "chappy New Year," Mr. Editor, and sioeerely do> I hep* that your prized journal .ffiß>£ have more good and happy erenVs_Jo- . 'chronicle in the coming year- than fell to it* TloMri.the past.. - '.. i Baring _ the past week tfie Wakatip ha* been ; delirious with delight. Christmas Eve I was calm, as when -a perso::. draws a- long : h.se&thanprepaiatHra for a long drmfc of -win© 'or pleasure. The grand old memory— Christmasltself—was spent aa-beearae a" f";hrislia» [people,as inJodelightful heavenly jcalm.liy, the contemplJriibn of its glorious imotto, "on earth peace, good will towards jmen," and as if to realise as"far as possible the ; scene described ~by. the Evangelieal writer,. a grand-mammoth picnic was- got up by the ■ Sons and Daughters of Temperance on-* Box - ing Pay, and there was- such a-.sight proeraeed 'as it is-not often fee lot of man to see, even under much- more faTorable- circnmstance» than those which exist on a- comparative'-" ' newly settled- ©oldfield—fathers, with wives and little ones to the number el many hun-. dreds, all clothed, and- apparently in their ( right' mind—snd< certainly all quietly enjoyinothe many sources of pleasure at their, disposal! The day was peculiarly favorable. The spot; chosen was simply charming, surrounded by lofty mountains, whose domes might be seer* reflected in the clear blue waters of Lake Hayes, which- kf ed - the-sßore at their feet, and breathing the embalmel air of the fioWer gardens and blooming crops which lie around them on all sides; It needed but the introduction of the happy people themselves 1 to make; it a Paradise,, which all who- witnessed will be glad to-see repeated. Monday,, the 28th, introduced a romJd of sports at Arrowtown, where horse-racinn- an;? atheletic sports were satisfactorily earrfed.jw. for three days without any accidents beyond a sprained foot. New Year ushers-fa » spray of remnants, an?J this date,- Monday, will see most of thebusy bees" a* work SS ain, after registering ttoerr experience of"-Anno Domini," 18/4 -