ALEXANDRA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2242, 18 February 1897, Page 25

ALEXANDRA.

February 13. — The town is assuming very gay proportions, and brings on^in mind of the sights to be seen at a militaiy encampment. The Naseby Hand eamo up yesterday morning, tooting their horns very nicely, and put up mx the Criterion. The Roxburgh Band was the mm to pull up, and they came in silently, and sadly in want of a good tea However, during the evening they gave a few veiy line selection* in the Caledonian grounds. The Cromwell B\nd was the next to come in, about I o'clock, and they put up at the Bondigo. The Bicycle Club and the bands will parade in t,he street at 2.30 to-day, and theuce go to th« Recreation Ground, where the Bicycle Club hold sports, and they should make a very gay spectacle. I will give a detailed account of the band contest in next week's issue. Our Water Supply.— The water 'question is dying a natural death, and we will still have to put up with the old system. Water thai will not make good tea will not make good beer, so Mr Beck says, and he has sunk and found a beautiful spring of crystal water, so we shall, at all events, get good beer to drink if we can't get good water. I had the pleasure of sampling some of the first brew, and I never in my life drank such fine beer. Mr Beck has thti nympathy of the whole community with him iv his new departure, ami that it may prove 4 success is the wish of one and all. So you see lam not a tea drinker, as " Truthful" says, nor am 1 a i-lave to 'he intoxicant beverage. However, I maintain that pure water i« the thing to give to a fainting man when he is that weak he cannot swallow spirits. " Truthful " may be ''etter able to make a, sun-dried brick than to shear n uheep, a< was demonstrated a couple of months back. In conclusion, I may say that I did not doubt Miss Cameron s hospitality ; perhaps I have a higher idea of the young lady's generosity tbau "Truthful" ever had. LooKiAG Ahead. -A social party is to be 'formed for the purpose of profitably passing winter nights. This should prove a great attraction to the young and rising generation. The debating society will sooq make a move iv tha same direction.