PRINCE OF WALES' BIRTHDAY.
The 58th anniversary of the birth of tbe Prtnco of Walea was observed yesterday aa ft peneral h.liday. The weathe/, thopgh cloudy, we fi oe , 8 „d the public availed themselves df the first holiday of the summer to enj .y outloor amusements. Numbers travelled by rail to Motupiko, Spring Grove, end other place*, and by boat to Motueka, wbile though the oily itself appeared deserted, large numbers visited the Sands and the Port. The Nelson Bowling Green and tbe Nelson Lawn Tennis Cluhs groonds were also well attended. Several privato picnics and some Sunday school picnics proved most enjoyable, aud aa the roads are in excellent order for cycling the volaries of tbe wheel could be met in all directions in the country. , Large crowds of people, mostly young, went up the jMa tai yesterday, and hundreds ftpprecated the footbridges which enabled them to go suob distances along thestrearo. Perhaps of all the pionics those on the banks ot the Maim we.e most enjoyed ; but the roads to the Waimeas were also lined by hundreds out for the holiday.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIII, Issue 255, 10 November 1899, Page 2
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184PRINCE OF WALES' BIRTHDAY. SWAZILAND AND ZULULAND. TOWNS CAPTURED BY BOERS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXIII, Issue 255, 10 November 1899, Page 2
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