WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12845, 1 December 1905, Page 5

WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL.

LADIES GUILD GARDEN PARTY. The annual garden parly <>f ihc Wonlcyaa l-adje** Guild wa#> hold at Mr <'. Howker'* ;**ideooc. " l*hc Piuc*." } cM-crday afternoon. The piweed* «f the eniertaintneut were dtvoled to the fond* *»f the »c* t>w»•day School of the chur<&. Tjic mor-siinc wa* far from promising jur a toe aJlicrnooii. and jurt before the party >tarted xotnc tmarti shower* »«■(• bioKgbi by lb<> KouWcKtcr. It- *<xtn cJcawd Bjj. and the afternown wan beautifully tine, ihough ihc wind ooDtiwaed. In the »bcllcr of the tree* ►•ciTotmding the gardm. thi* wa» *r..%iv<3y frit. Mr Rowker* pretty growid* locked their be*! ia the. Ku*;*bu>e. and those prencat *petit- tni.net, of their time *t jelling round and admiring than. Kaoly in the afternoon, the attendance wa* ve;y wrj.Vh «nving to the bad feather. bul by and by there -were noma hundred* present. Plenty <>i naruwemettt wa* provided ihcia : and ihowe who were de*ir«u* of doing m» <-<i-u]d *pi. : .d much nunc; «i the jnl«rcM> oj the *<-hool>, at the r-ari-<ms faaw w..rk r.tid -oi.], e r HaJU. Mr LangddwnV band ■««* j.n-M'tit and j>layed <tf the aJi«t)«Kin. wan f««lv inda3g©d in. Dr u«,k bin mottlr car up. and 10..k b;g b.ads of voting p*uiK«igcr* for *bt-n1 jtwik <m tlie n.ci;viiiK*nrj»g roadf. t<* tlidr gjvat dtJight. There wan .a display of d*coral«jd bicyckt.. in which *«r«» girl* and two b«y»i c(rnijM>tod. It was won by l"}*d« <r(x«3mao. with Rat* Nixon >*c»nd. and Dorothy Howe tiiird. White the parade of cydwt* wa* tsiking place, a*' Sornga dement" wa* ititntdoced, a, «aait la»m"«! in which a . child _ <wcapjed-ih<t diirerV weal,. It wdn a miniatwe dog-catt, bamcHwsd U> aat aaniabl© <d«|f. who lr»U©d faily rcmnd the „ rixi■g of tjtedatwjii, at. 'iijaes. it ajis»cajicd, Iwmjew-hait U* the dinwrnftrtt <>f Um» HMe' I drirer. A nmnber of main vcbwil childiwi, Mi*».' Arwon"* jtopiK g-are ti Maj-jiole dance. The rarw-tin nbzXk w«"e arrHngiwl ia t«al*, aad coßtaJned a gse»l rajwly of arIsclrK. Thei* w«-e fancy and plu«m-w«rk *t»B>. g-»t np bj- the <Jtiiid J and presided trt"«r by virion* mcmbe». A *ec<t»nd tu»f for the cnlertaJnmeDl wan '"AH Nation* Fair." and the attendant* w«re dreKw«d in c*iKinmi«'* typicstl <if the vuritmn ; oatiww. TijeKe w-o-c dcrigrmd and made with ca3« Mid tuMc aid notnc of theJtt were v*uy aioely finished. Ni«t** Zealand a»l- having a typical cwlntne. wa« ♦fynjpol. swd by a. kJj'ckk gyiniKhcJ wilb tiampW *rf : the colony"* prodoci*. and a hat- «f pleated flax !ear«*:. One v.-ork *1;al1 wan <:arjied oa ; by member* <»f ihc Stinday school, and thew <al»<» wet* pirt-iarwiqtiely -dineKxud. The , tiWßertrtw 4itl«odan<*- <m the gremmd* gat» ; the crowd ao «B«t!ti«l3y gay appcwaaxie. A ! *w«et* *t»ll wa* at", ho in evidence, aa.d 4*4 ■ a thiiring trad*; and there wa* igo»d «de- ~ tna»d f«r lie £n« *vpply *if pcA. j3ao.t« «m : *ale in the flower rtalL Rcfe'eßittneat*, in- , di*p«isibte at garden f«a't(sc*, were nffi*- ' penwd with liberal haad* in a la-rgc tnar«3Bce by a isßTOerßutu emnjriitt«e flf lodic*, under the .wjj-wjViMon tif.Mr Badd. An : «xtr.a plt'-nsttiH! w*ik afforded hr the receipt : *»l*t«J«gr«» from the Rev. «T. K. Wm chni'ch'* lat« pastor. »<«• in N<w Ply* mouth. f1« wished ihc ff»ngr«ga,l:itm a.'«wy ! peasant allcn.'woi). The wan Ih«T----j oaghly «:.joyc4 by all. aad aaoxt *rf the i viMt<tr* i«majn«»d till the ©coewaty for pr»riding the evening tasai caUed theaa tirnsflu