THE HOLIDAY IN PROSPECT.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1480, 7 November 1874, Page 2

THE HOLIDAY IN PROSPECT.

Whatever may be the shortcomings of colonists they are not wanting in their professions of loyalty to the Queen and Boyal family. On Monday next a general holiday will be kept in honour of the thirty-third birthday ®f Albert Edward, Prince of vValea, and if the day should open with its sunny influences Monday will be a right-royal holiday indeed. November, which is proverbial in the old land for fogs, glooms, and suicides, wears a true summer aspect in New Zealand. It is.the holiday of the heart and the blossoming carnival of mature : and everything wears a green, radiant vesture of beauty and promise. The lads and lasses are on the look out for the purple skies and rural excursions; the girls and boys are on the tiptoe of expectation ; and even the shoemaker and the sweep, and the washerwoman declare that the royal birthday shall be a holiday outright. The birds are merry in their leafi^ orchestras, and the trees are musical witjfi sweet sounds. The sparrows even have intruded into the very heart of the city, and twittered of summer over the entrance to the Union Bank of Australia, but as there were no efiectg to their credit they have been mercilessly dealt with by cruel hands. The holiday thought, however, is of the grassy hills and the sea-washed shores, where the citizens can lie and dream of future happi2i, TJ ere!?™ 80, me pretty walks about Auckland, which will be prettier still as the years roll on and the hand of cultivation decorates^nd ntilizeg the silent .way-side maces. The roses and honeysuckle already >"!£2! thft,^ Ul?!' lanes where lovers walk unsefen and whisper honeyed words, the ba^ks. will be closed, the offices of merchants and the stores of traders will be silent on Monday next, the cricketers will be a-field, £L£ a<? m<^ n the Waitemata, the dressmaker with her sweetheart, and almost !K cryinhab,l*ant of this growing city wiU be abroad walking in green avenues or basking "* .™8 ■«W*»»t- enjoying sandwiches and lemonade in pvincely fashion. tfnfortu. nately for holiday-keepers there will be n<> moon on Monday night to shin upon their homeward path, and dev«lope

I poetic sentiment. The mm** j"S 8 fto^nlijhtig bo different thT^v^t I gif"; of the lea ß er light virt^]** Stf I for our abode. The holi\W y *!y7 ■ way lite a dissbl^^J I radiance of the moon* and ''£$*£& I spell a new scene with ita own J? »C I beauty opens to the gaze *^*<*«r^ I ments are promised in the *t!?"? '*«3l theatre, and Choral Hal] eithpTv'^^S he innocently used as a £loi^ti holiday. . w "8 ffoS I "' CHOIUL I On Monday evening next a &*** I and dramatic entertainment wiiHT *"% I the Choral Hall in aid of" X*>* VI Hobson Corps band, to conclude So^ I grille party. The Tol n nte^ a% I in fall uniform; and the coneerf "^ I ;under the patronage of Hia n VI RuDermtendent; the Mayor nf A° n °r C and the officers of tHe Vril^H companies. The programme ■i« „ k*% attractive. This promising band k?^ of sixteen performers, chiefly ladrS^ attained a fair state ; of proficency W time they have been in practice 'aL^ great credit on their teacher Mr \T^ r%» Miss Shanaghan will preside atthevo^ this occasion. . \ P^oj THETHEATRB. The Theatre will be open for the W^ dramatic exercisaa and dancing W- •* | sons. The Vivian Troupe will S 1-Formo.a Married,-anfptSrtfg* of perfomancesand a sparkling Mm & Mr. Vman will give several'of higifr spiced comic songs. We ; .notice. «3 Arthur Vivian's new comic song booki. * out and may be had at| the door! * T THE CATTLE SHOW^" Farmers and settlers will have the on*. tnnity of aeeing what the New Ze v 1 Agricnltural Society are doing in the w»^ stock breeding at their grand shoW bit \ri day at EUerslie, we notice- by the So<aS; hand-bills that this year's Bhow will ecf^ all those which have gone before TLi show is one of the great annual treats of ttl colony, and is a, distinguighed featnu"* colonial enterprise. The Caledonian (sM to be held at the same place will a]g 0 ,^S a large amount of attention.« TljebejS: gardens of Ellerslie will be-open to <L public, of which a full descriDtioa »pp«nift: the supplement to this day's issue. . : Steam-boats will run to Woodade and ft liorth Shore, and trains to scenes of iateiai at Ellerslie and Onehunga. WHAUHALt. Mr Clair's troupe of lcerrie minrfßt jj^ eluding many of the chief amatennrf^^ land, will give a public enterhhmgi^ Whan Public Hall on Monaay-fiufeji consist of music, ballads, recitatuifflßp