SOCIETY ON DITS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue III, 21 January 1899, Page 81

SOCIETY ON DITS.

That the Blind Musicians held concerts in the Theatre Royal, New Plymouth, on Sunday and Monday evening, and were well

That two prominent Blenheim citizens were in Picton on Saturday last canvassing for a new paper which they are starting in Blenheim, and which is to eclipse all other papers in Marlborough. if not in New Zealand. That the Mountain House is now opened to visitors and it has been thoroughly renovated. Mr Lewis has taken the place of Mr Peters as caretaker. Several ladies of New Plymouth are collecting money for a piano for the House, and by the vay people are responding to the request it is probable they will soon have it. That one noticeable feature of the New Year’s Day excursion from Wellington to Picton was the fact that so many of the Wellington young women had resorted to art for their complexion. Some had confined themselves to the legitimate spot for roses to bloom on the human face divine, and others were got up so as to defy sea-sickness, and even tears. Some painting was evidently done by amateurs, but others were finished by a master hand. EVen then they did not reach by any means the perfection of the natural.