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Observer, Volume 1, Issue 22, 12 February 1881, Page 220

— The weekly meeting of the Saturday Afternoon Kecreation Club last Saturday was one of the pleasantest of tlie season. The weather was most propitious, the company unusually large and very sociable and the programme of amusement was carried out in a very enjoyable manner. The favourite parson of the Presbyterian young ladies, (Rev. T. W. Dunne, of St. Davi&'s) took part in the archery contest and acquitted himself very creditably. I fancy that he must have been fully cognisant of the fact that he was himself a target for the numerous soft looks and tender glances which were shot slyly at him from beneath the eyebrows of many a fair adversary. The ladies were evidently imbued with a mild form of excitement for they evinced the greatest interest in the progress of the match, besides striving to their utmost to profit by the impromptu lessons in archery so willingly given by the archers of the other sex. On the croquet lawn there was less feminine cheating than usunl, but quite as much . animation, and as a consequence the game was of more than average duration, while the conversation at the tea table was marked by frequent and brilliant flashes of wit and exhibitions of punning dexterity from a bewitching young man who had swallowed (apparently) a complete Joe Miller. He was simply irrepressible, and valiantly withstood the disparaging criticisms of envious swains. Mr. H. assisted most cleverly at the tea-urn. Bounders, French tig and Puss-in-the corner were the remaining items on the programme, and a short time was devoted to each. Mr. S. M. proved himself facile princeps in the first-named game, and Mr. E., the greatest " duffer" in the last. His unfortunate collapse upon his helmet was a heartrending scene. —Mr. Walter Stubbing X.A.M., who returned by the " Arawata" on Monday, is being perfectly lionized. He conies fresh from the Royal Academy of Music, and has visited the English relatives of many old colonists. From the heaps of souvenirs and nick nacks presented to him at home, and an address from from the passengers per " John Elder " to Melbourne, he appears to have been as popular on his ]'ourneyings as he was in Auckland.