HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 77, 24 December 1907, Page 7

HOLIDAY ATTRACTIONS.

A VARIED PROGRAMME There will bo no lack of attractions for tho coming holidays ' i BOXING DAY Thursday (Boxing Day) will - be, us usual, a great diy for sports and outdoor .lmiiscinonts Tho second daj's events of the Mcinawatu Racing Club's Summer Meeting will bo held at 'Palnierston North, and r.icc meetings will also be held .it Porangahau and Lower Valloj (Martinborough) • The Hutt Valley Tiottnig Club's meeting will commenco at Petone >

'A cricket match", New South Wales' teach-, ersv: Wellington teachers, will be played on the Wellington College ground. '■■.'. ; The Petone' regatta , will be another strong attraction , to persons' of sporting proclivities. ' ': ...' :, . '■.■■'";■■'..■• ■ , The Catholic picnic will he held at Lower Hutt. ■. ■■■■ . ■.■ v- '\ • ,■;. . . ■ . ~ . Band .and, fireworks programmes will take place at Belleyuo Gardens, Lower Hutt. Mason's Gardens are another popular resort. The s.s: Victoria will make a special excursion, to Picton. , Harbour excursions will be run to Day's Bay, Seatoun, and Karaka Bay. ■ •; ' '■' ;■.■■ ■ ■ In the evening Mr/J. \C. Williamson's now' musical, comedy, " The Blue Moon," will commence, its season at the Opera House, West's pictures will bo on view in the Town Hall, tnero will be.a special holiday programme ' at "Wonderland," and Messrs. Puller, and Sons will give their entertainment in. the. .Theatre Royal. Abbmah, the giantess,' will also .be on exhibition in Manners Street.' '■ ■ .

: A large number of picnickers will doubtless, go by car to .Seatoun,- Island Bay, Karon, and other popular resorts, and by train to Crofton, Khandallah, Plimmerton, etc; : ' ' '"■. v. '■■'■■■

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27. ; On Friday tho Palmerston North and Lower Valley race meetings will be concluded. ' .. , ■ An inter-provincial cricket match between Wellington and Otago will be commenced on tho Basin Reserve. ■ . i Evening dttractions on this and succeeding nights will be tho same as on Boxing Night. ' ' '• ■ SATURDxVY, DECEMBER 28. On Saturday thoro will be a race meeting at Ashhurst. The Hutt Valley Trotting Club's meeting will bo concluded at Petone. ■' ' ■, The inter-provincial cricket match, Wellington v. Otago, will be continued. A Chrißtiaii Students' Union Conference will bo commenced at Trontham. NEW YEAR'S DAY. On Wednesday, New Year's Day, tho Palmerston Racing Club, Hawko's Bay Jockey Olub, Rangitikei, Stratford, and Wairarapa Racing Clubs will hold meetings. An intor-provincial crick-et-match will be commenced on the Basin Reserve between Wellington and Canterbury. ■ Tho Wellington Lawn Tennis Association's tournament will commence at-Day's Bay. Harbour and other excursions will bo run aa on Boxing Day.