DISPATCHES
Saturday at the Old Willow: the willow swept, the running order posted in final form, Drake Halford's viewing position secured, the coot's attendance notice filed, and a phrase from the southern waters the correspondent could not quite catch.
WEATHER
With the midsummer programme on Sunday, this paper applied for a forecast to both the Warden of the Sluice and the Deputy. The Warden answered in his register, the Deputy in hers, and both are set down side by side, in the order received.
FROM THE POND
Two evenings before the programme, the older drakes of the south bank conferred at their western station on the one question this paper holds to be in their particular gift: whether the evening light, by Sunday, would be right. The verdict came without ceremony.
DISPATCHES
The Wednesday session before the programme, the last full sitting of the working week, confirmed the arrangements agreed at the special session held on the twenty-third of May and suspended routine business under the same motion. The Junior Member asked one question, briefly.
DISPATCHES
Tuesday's joint rehearsal beneath the Old Willow broke on the duet; Mabel of the north bank withdrew to the south bank reeds, was attended to, and by sundown had agreed to go on. The rehearsal resumed after first dark.
DISPATCHES
Solstice week opens with the Cultural Subcommittee at the Old Willow. The south bank approach is reeded, provisionally. The Clerk has half-assumed the timekeeper's post, and a full rehearsal is set for Tuesday.
DISPATCHES
The new moon arrived on Sunday evening, as expected. The Clerk of the Race did not. The Channel Sprint rematch, having already missed one promised moon, is deferred a second time.