LAWNS & LINKS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XIII, 28 March 1896, Page 355

LAWNS & LINKS.

THE croquet tournament still goes on gaily in the Empire City. Wellington has the decided victory, but each pair being eager to play off their allotted three games, it is being carried through its whole eighteen divisions. On Saturday a large party collected on Mrs Fitzherbert’s large double lawn to watch several of the final rounds, and perhaps by virtue of the confidence inspired by so friendly an audience, the Hutt came off victorious in each game. However, that does not affect the final issue, which leaves Wellington victorious and justly triumphant. The various pairs of the winning team now play off against each other, and I hear the ‘ pair ’ generally expected to carry off the prize are Mr and Mrs Charles Johnston.

The excitement over the Punediu to Christchurch cycling record isstill high, 22 hours and 13 minutes being the best yet accomplished, and I suppose this will soon be broken too !

Polo enthusiasm in Christchurch has dwindled down with the departure of the team (Messrs R. H. and A. E. G. Rhodes, Beauchamp, Lean, and Alister Clarke (for Wellington on Sunday by the ‘ Penguin,’ with about twenty ponies I should say ! I hear they draw Hawke’s Bay for their first opponents, and am awaiting with no little interest the results.