EASTER MONDAY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1944, 29 March 1875, Page 2

EASTER MONDAY.

To-day was observed as a pretty general holiday. The weather was all that could be desired early in the mprhing, and has continued so throughout the day. At an early hour this morning holidaymakers were astir and making for either Grahamstown or Shortiand, as their fancy took them ; expectant children were to be seen revelling madly in the joys of anticipation as a sort of preliminary ecstasy to the real thing ; men with swags, mining implements and cooking utensils,.bent ap parently upon making vigorous enquiry after " treasures that lie down below,'' and men with as little over and above the weight of their holiday costume as they could conveniently put up with,- bent simply upon looking round and seeing •' life "at Ohinemuri; mother? with hosts of children dressed in all colors of the rainbow, and a few middle shades which do not appear in that heavenly belt; and mysterious knots of young girls, dressed in summer costume, were to be seen coming from every quarter of the compass. The different steamers carried away a > number of excursionists and others, and, ♦the business portions of the town have in consequence had quite a quiet, if. not

melancholy aspect throughout the day. A number of persons visited Parawai; others, Tararu; but the majority of the pleasure-seekers went to Ohinemuri. The Gpood Templar?, who had previously organized a pic-nic party, proceeded thither in the steamer Tafcapuna, a boat peculiarly adapted for carrying excursionists, being at once commodious and provided with all the comforts introduced to. modern steam traffic. We have no doubt that all who visited Ohinemuri will have obtained the enjoyment sought, as the country is really beautiful and as yet undisturbed from its native state; while along the banks; of, the river there are shady retreatss which seem to have been cut out by Dame Nature with an eye to occasions such as the present.