Two of these clubs have this week held their annual festivals at Westport—one at the Castle Inn, on Tuesday, and the other at the Three Cups, on Wednesday last. The members went in procession through the streets to the music of the rifle corps band. On Tuesday evening the band proved a source of great attraction to many of the rustics assembled at the Castle while enjoying their dance in the street, which proved a pursuit of the art of dancing under difficulties better to be imagined than described, as
“When the beer is in the man Then the sense is in the can.”
The Newton branch of the Wilts Friendly Society held their festival on Monday last, in a field adjoining the Rectory, kindly lent for the occasion by the Rev. Canon Estcourt. The attendance was small and not up to that of previous years.