MARLBOROUGH.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 18, 30 April 1892, Page 453

MARLBOROUGH.

Dear Bee, April 22. The Kenepuru Regatta on Easter Monday, though not the success it has hitherto been, was well attended from the Picton side of the range, nearly all the inhabitants of the town being ferried across the Sound in Captain Fisk’s steam launches and landed iu Torea Bay, where only a low saddle divides Queen Charlotte Sound from the Pelorus Sound, and here in what is called The Portage, the Pelorus Sound people hold their annual regatta. The fearful weather we have had duriug the last fortnight accounts for the unusually small number of people from Blenheim, Havelock, and the Sounds generally. Amongst the happy picnic parties were Mr and Mrs Masefield (of Manaroa), Mr and Mrs C. H. Mills (of Havelock), Mr and Mrs George Robinson (of Blenheim), Mr and Mrs H. C. Seymour, Mr and Mrs Rutherford, Mrs McNab, Mrs Beauchamp (of Anikiwa), and the Misses Speed, Masefield, Beauchamp, Scott, Seymour, Welford, Hassell, Mellish, and many others. Everybody was well wrapped up, and prepared for rain, which has been coming down in a perfectly matter-of course manner for the last fortnight. Alas I for the camping-out expeditions, of which there were several parties down the Sound for the Easter holidays, with ammunition enough to clear the whole place of wild pigs forever, and fishing tackle enough to catch all the fish in the Sounds. One party went without a tent, and the friends they left behind lamenting could not sleep at night for thinking of them, bnt the party knew the Sound people too well to have any fears in regard to rheumatism or influenza. Most of them returned to Picton on Monday night, having enjoyed themselves in spite of thunder, lightning, rain, and rude Boreas, laden with spoils from the deep, which they carried in triumph to Blenheim and presented to their less fortunate friends.

Jean.