HIGHCLIFF.

Otago Witness, Issue 2342, 19 January 1899, Page 34

HIGHCLIFF.

January 12. — After a few days' fine weather wind and rain has again set in. The Peninsula is noted for its changeable weather. The farmers are anxious about getting in their hay, and are busy thinning turnips, cutting oats, ! and picking gooseberries, which last seem to j be unusually fine. Mr A. Stuart, of Clifton, i had a crop of gooseberries that were really quite a show. Indeed, they are quite in keeping with ' that gentleman's well-regulated farm . ! The Holidays. — The Christmas holidays have been made the most of, but owing to bad weather out-door amusements, picnics, etc, have been almost a failure; and yet it is astonishing what inconvenience young people will put up with for the sake of a picnic. j Fringes. — Highcliff is also going ahead in the ! fashionable line. The omnipresent fringe is being twisted and curled with renewed vigour, and even the male members of the younger portion of the community are entering into the ranks of the fringed ones. Two, at least, have * boldly led the way for fashion, and, to the dlsi may of their lady friends, have sacrificed their exquisite moustaches in favour of a top knot.