New Year Holiday Amusements.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 156, 31 December 1887, Page 3

New Year Holiday Amusements.

If predont appearances can bo relieil npon, tho weather for tho New Year holidays promises to cor.iponsate pleasure-seekers for Ihe scurvy tricKF it plajcd them during the Christmas season. For this prediction wo have the authority of Captain_ Edwin, who finds that from present indications, there is overy probability of fine weather. Means of enjoying the holiday on Monday noit, either on land or in the harbour, are not lacking. Tho most important event will bo the athletic gathering of tbe Caledonian Society in tho Basin Reservo, for which arrangements have been nude on a scale quite unprecedented. The programmo of sports is long, the jiriz.es are valuable, and the entries numerous, and tnero will be additional attractio?is in the B - iape of Caledonia's characterifrtio i:>usic, wliicli will be provided by several hppciallje nploycd pipcrn. Tho temperance bodies w.U bold u picnic at M'N'aVsUunlena, Lower Hutt, mid tbo C.itl:ol : c picnic, postponed from lioxing Day, will take placo at Helmoi:t, c ;cur»iou trails running to both plwco-' O dinury timo tables on thu railwn\ !i\un will bu su-ipended on Moudiy, a'!>l • » curmoiiH will lie inn on the Governmti t I . • 111 1 various stations betv/eon Wellinptun ai.il Muifj'iiiimlioo, and on tbo Wellinjftoi.Mauauulu railway to the Otitki Races and tie Palmorstnn Ciiedoiiiun Sports. Tho n |uatio oxcuthioni ••! tho poason will bjgin to-night wit)' the mo >nlight trip of tte b.b. Penguin round tho harbour. Tho B'eamerß Mnnn. Huiu, and St Kilda will on Monday bo laid on for oxcurnions to Some i' Ihlimml, and tho Colleon and L'ispotch will bo available for trips to tho Fortifications to morrow and on Monday, rho latter boat also riumintr to Lowry Bay. For excursions biyond the harbour the Union Company proviuos an amplo time-table Tho f4rafton will leave for Nokon to-ni|jijt at 10 p.m., and will start on the return trip at 10 o'clock on Monday nisi lit. Tho Mawhcra leaves for Lyttolton at 8 o'clock this ovening, and the Wanaka at 11 a.m. to-morrow. Excursionibts will havo the option of roturning by tho Wanaka at 9 p m. on Monday or by tho Rotorua at 9 p.m. on Wednosday. On Monday tbe Penguin will start at 8 a.m. for Picton, returning thoncc at 4.30 p.m. Minifio's brass band will bo on board. The evoning amusoments consist of tho porformanco of tho " Cricket on tho Hearth " at tho Opera House by Mr. George Leitch's o impany, a promenade concei t and danco at the Princoss Theatre, and tho Municipal Firo Brigades annual tea and aoiroo at tlio Drillshod, besides the never-failing Columbia Skating Kink, which, by-tho-bye, will be available in the morning to gentlemen as well as its usual fair froquontors.