VIGOROUS DANCING AT EAST TAMAKI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 82, 11 February 1879, Page 2

VIGOROUS DANCING AT EAST TAMAKI.

A correspondent sends us the particulars of a somewhat unusual ball that took place recently at East Tamalti. Our correspondent says that when he heard the particulars of it he was forcibly struck with the vigor and heartiness of the entertainment, and he thought the inhabitants of other districts might like to know something of it. The powers of endurance in the ladies and gentlemen who took part in the ball show what material our settlers are made of. Tho ball was unique in its way, and was given at a settler's house in the East Tainaki district, when all the leading settlers were present, together with many from the Wairoa, the Thames, and a few from Auckland. Proceedings began about 4 p.m. by croquet, tea at 7; after whieh the ball opened, and continued, with only intervals for supper and refreshments, till tho siui shone on the dancers, Breakfast was served at 7 a.m., and as soon as the tables were cleared away the music struck up again, and tho dancers kept at it right through the day, leaving off only for dinner and tea, till the candles were again in requisition. All night long the dance and song went on. Supper again was served, and again the candles yielded to daylight, and breakfast stopped the dancers' feet. A game of croquet closed the ball, which had lasted two nights and! nearly two days, and many of the ladies started off home—a ride of some 14 miles miles—looking just as fresh and rosy as when thoy began. Amongst the dancers was one young gentleman whose name is -not unknown on our racecourse, who had sustained a galop of two and a-half hours without a rest, to one lady's playing,' when both dancer and musician were stopped by the rest of the company, neither having given in,-N, Z, Herald,