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Wirrabara News.
Wirrabara, May 3rd.
This town which might well have been
known as "The Sleepy Hollow," noted for
its many institutions in a more or less
moribund condition. We have, or had, a
Croquet Club. This appears to have
"gone through the hoop" or has been
knocked on the head with a mallet. Also
a Hockey Club, which holds a dance now
and again, presumably to keep the mem-
bers "fit." The Football Club has about
twenty minutes practice before the start
ing of a match, and that generally after
the authorised time of starting. We also
have a Vigilant Committee, but what they
are vigilant about nobody seems to know.
The Coursing Club ran its deciding course,
the Rifle Club registered its last "bull,"
and the Gun Club its last pigeon years
ago. As for the School Committee. Well,
we have a school, also an Institute, whose
committee holds its monthly meetings
occasionally. It is rumored that the
Cricket Club won a match last season.
The Tennis Club appears to have more
"go" than any of the others. The mem-
bers have recently raised the whole of the
cost of a new cement concrete court, about
£80. This they celebrated by a handicap
tournament in conjunction with the For-
est Club, which was a successful function,
and tbe evenness of most of the game re-
flected credit on the handicappers. The
ladies' singles was won by Miss Ena
Zilm of Wirrabara, the ladies doubles by
Mrs C. R. Cole and Miss A. Peacock of
the Forest ; gent's singles by Mr J. H.
Hammill of Wirrabara, the hon. sec of
the Wirrabara Club, to whom much credit
for the success of the tournament is due;
the gents doubles by Messrs G. Fether-
stonhaugh and M. Philiis of Wirrabara.
After suffering innumerable duststorms,
interspersed with a few points of rain
during the half-year from the middle of
October to the middle of April (total fall
1.10) , rain set in in earnest on Friday
evening and some fine showers have fallen
since, registering 14 inches up till the
time of writing (Monday evening). This
will put the land (and the owners thereof)
in good heart for seeding operations, not
to mention the cessation of water carting,
which has been more serions this summer
than ever known before in the town.
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