WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 2, 11 January 1911, Page 64

WELLINGTON.

January 6. Tennis Championship. The tennis players are back from Blenheim, and all seem to have had a thoroughly good time. They speak very] highly of the management and of the hospitality they met with, the tennis dance especially being a great success. In the various country districts thera are lawn tennis tournaments coming OU during the next few weeks, and several Wellington players are going to compete. Quite a number of the visitors to Blenheim returned from Picton by the New) Year excursion, which was run by the Maori, and so were fortunate in havina a record trip across the Straits. The Holidays. Although the holidays are practically] over and business in full swing, numbers of people are still away at the seaside or .in the country. Occasionally they] make excursions into town, and one meets them flying in breathless haste round the shops and making their way burdened with bags and parcels towards the ferry or trains. To get fresh provisions in the country still seems a question of difficulty, and all the campaigners agree that for fresh fruit they have to come into town. All the same, there are undoubted joys in the country life, and as fast as a cottage is vacated new occupants rush into the breach. Pieton, always high in favour as a holiday place, is steadily increasing in popularity, and every bay in the Alarlborough Sounds is swarming with holidaymakers, the majority of whom come from Wellington. Delightful as the Alokoia trip was to Queen Charlotte and Pelorus Sound, it would have been better for fine weather, throughout. As it was, the mucli-looked-forward-to picnic had to be abandoned, and as the decks were too wet to danca on tile fancy dress ball did not come offInstead, there was a capital little impromptu concert, and a lot of unsuspected talent was brought to light. The excursion altogether was an extremelvi pleasant one. Personal. The Bishop of Wellington ami ATra Wallis returned to Wellington on Wednesday after a holiday in Pieton and Nelson. Airs, and Aliss Litchfield, Aliss Os-borne-Gibbes, and Aliss Fitzgerald joined! the Afokoia for the excursion to th cl Alarlborough Sounds. Trentham is still a centre of attraction, and the house parties there ara being frequently reinforeed. Air. Tolhurst has had Air. and Mrs. Gerald' Tolhurst staying with him. Airs, and MisS Miles have been staying with Airs. Ewen. Air. and Airs. David Findlay have taken) a cottage at Heretaunga. Air. and Airs. Birkett (Kelburne) are the guests of Tsr. and Airs. Young. Air. and Airs, White are occupying a small house neaS them.

Alisa Richmond and Aliss Shaen (England) are travelling on the West Coast 1 ,

where after doing the Buller and Otira Gorges they intend to visit the Franz Josef Glacier and other interesting places. Miss Shaeu was out here some years ago, and this time travelled from Bugland -with Miss E. Richmond, who has been spending two years or so in the Old Country.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Buncan are hack from Auckland, where they paid a Hying visit to Dr. and Mrs. Harker, fellow passengers of theirs on their recent trip out from England. The Misses Coleridge, who are just baek from a pleasant stay In the Old Country, have gone to Nelson for a week or two.

Miss CaehemaHle arrived from England at Christmas-time, and is paying a round of visits among her relatives here. For the last four or five years she has been living in the Old Country. Mrs. and Miss Kennedy are back from Wanganui, where they have been spending the Kew Year. Mrs. F. M. B. Fisher has been visiting Miss Beatrice Day at Wanganui. Day’s Bay always is popular as a seaside resort, and many people have beer there for tire holidays. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell Tewsley and Miss Tewsley, Mr. and Mrs. and the Misses Haybittie, Mr. and Mrs. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Moss have all been there lately for a more or less long stay. There are a number of permanent residents at Day’s Bay, besides a good number of “summer people,’* who live in Wellington most of the year, but spend three or four months in their seaside

cottages or bungalows.

OPHELIA.