Coast Gossip

GLASGOW EVENING POST. THURSDAY 20TH AUGUST 1891.

COAST GOSSIP.

The merchants of Gourock have transferred their affections from the Lady Clare to the Lucy Ashton. The latter is more commodious, and will do the trip to Inverarary on the 26th inst.

The Paisley Fair folks are still on the move at Gourock, but the shopkeepers complain that there is not much being spent in the burgh.

The principal attraction at Gourock is the sight of the steamers starting for the down river runs at five and six o’clock. Four boats walk off as one man from Gourock Pier, and are met by the South Western Marquis and Sultana, the six rushing and crossing so close that ordinary trading boats get quite bewildered in the confusion, or blinded by smoke. The latter it would be impossible to measure by a Police Court case. A special Act of Parliament was be required, and the sooner the better.

In the fine weather the last day or two the Largs boat-hirers did a good stroke, the first turn of luck they have had since the Paisley Fair holidays began. The attempts of many of the natives of ‘Seestu’ at the management of ‘sma’ boats’ were amusing. They wisely confined their naval maneuvers within the harbour, and close to the shore.

An exhibition of curios for the benefit of the benevolent fund of Lodge Kelburne was opened in the Town Hall, Millport, on Tuesday and yesterday. The curios are the property of Mr A Goldie, the celebrated New Guinea explorer, and comprise many curious implements from that until recently terra incognita. Mr Goldie belongs to Millport.

Shandon Hydropathic is full to overflowing just now. Some visitors are so fond of the place that they willingly forego the luxury of an ordinary bed-room and contentedly ‘snooze’ in the ‘baths’ building and the bathman’s house.

The Loch Lomond and Loch Long tour seems to be a favourite day’s outing for the Shandon visitors. On Tuesday about a hundred of them went by the Lady Rowena to Arrochar, the majority returning by Loch Lomond.

The Duke of Argyll opened a bazaar at Oban today in connection with the Oban Scientific and Literary Association and Oban Boat Club. These associations don’t run in couples on Clyde.

Pickpockets have been doing a big trade in the Rothesay district this week, and no fewer than seven rifled purses were picked up on the pier there on Tuesday evening.

Over a thousand patrons patronised the excursion by Galatea, and as the fare was a shilling the Esplanade band can rely on being fairly well paid for one season at least.

A Rothesay contemporary says the Glasgow youth has much improved in his general behaviour within late years, but it will be many years at the same rate of progress before he can be placed on a level with his Paisley counterpart.

Some nine or ten steamers will convey passengers from the various coast towns to witness the firework display at Wemyss Bay on Friday night.