PICTON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue XVIII, 3 November 1894, Page 427

PICTON.

Dear Bee October 23. The Misses Greensill were ‘AT home’ on Friday, the opening of their tennis court being the object of their gathering. A delightful afternoon was spent, tea being laid out on rustic tables under the manukas, and when it became too dark the party went out boating in the bay, and spent the evening arousing the echoes, for which Picton is famous, by singing merry roundelays. The Misses Greensill (four), Allen. Philpotts (two), Seymour (two), and Messrs Greensill (two), Fox, Baillie, and Seale being of the party. A party of young men hired the Torea on Saturday evening, and went for a trip down Queen Charlotte Sound, the object being to get the cobwebs—engendered by long poring over musty old tomes—blown out of their brains. The object was attained, and the party returned on Sunday evening as spry as grasshoppers, having visited several lonely bachelor establishments in different bays, and cheered the owners thereof with the very latest accounts of the sayings and doings of town society. Miss S. Gard, of Rougemont, returned to Picton on Friday after a delightful trip to Sydney, via Wellington and Auckland, with her brother-in-law ana sister, Mr and Mrs J. Mowat, of Blenheim. Miss Gard looks all the better for the trip, and is arousing much interest in the minds of our stay-at-homes by graphic accounts of the eye-openers and mind-expanders of travel. Jean.