FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5650, 25 December 1879, Page 5

FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONS.

EPISCOPAL CHURCHES. St. Paul's. —S a m., Communion Service. 11 a.m., Full chc.ral service, and choral Communion. The anthem will be "Behold I bring you Go"d ''idiug?," by Sir John Goss. —S p.m., Evening Carol Service. Anthem, "Sing and Rejoice," by J. Bar iby ; among other carols, the following will be given: "Once -Again, O Blessed Time:" "Carol, Swee'ly Carol;" " Good Christian Men, Eejoice ;" "Carol, Christians, Carol;" "There came Three Kings." St. Matthew's. —S a.m., Communion Service. 11 a.m., Full morning service. A solo " Comfort Ye," by Miss Uurnham, and a choru» by the choir " And the Glory of the Lord," from the " Messiah." St. Sepulchre's.—7.3o a.m., Holy Communion. An address wrll be given to Communicants by the Bishop. 11 a.m., full morning service. 7 p.m., evening service. The hymns will be as follows : —Taken from hymns A and M, at 7.30 a.m., GI, 59; II a m., CO, SS, 59 ; 7 p.m., OS, 02, 59, 03. The anthem at the mid-day service will be HopUins's " Let ns now go even unto Bethlehem." The Communion office at both, the Monk in A, Kicene Creed, Stainer. On New Year's Eve, at this church, after evening service at 7, there will bo a racital of sacred music for two hours, consisting of Spohr's cantata, "God, Thou art Great," selections from Mendelssohn's "Elijah," anthems, hymns, and Christinas carols. All Salnts' (Possoxby).—ll a.m., full morning eervice, with Holy Communion ; organ recital at opening and closing; autbeal, "Behold, I bring you glad tidings." The decorations of the church are of a more than ordinary tasteful order. St. Marys (Parnell).— The usual eerTices will be held. Particulars wers not furnished. CATHOLIC CHURCHES. St. Patrick's Cathedral.—7.3o a.m., mass; 9 a.m., mass; 11 a.m., Pontifical high mass, his Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Steins will be celebrant; 7 p.m., Pontifical vespers, and benediction of the Bleased Sacrament.

St. Francis de Sales.—9 a.m., maes; 11 a.m., mass. St. Mary's (PonsoKby). — 7.30 a.m., mass ; 10 a.m., mass.

I St. Jons the Baptist (Pap.nell).—7 a.m., mass; 11 a.m., lnus. The altars of t'.ia cithed'-a', ami of the oth»r Catholic chnrctie* wiil have more than th.« us-ial -Iciorat 0113, and the niimc will ho i:f n I;-;; , ; u'a-is character, in honour of tl:e great fens; of the Nativity of our Lord. WKSLEYAX. PiTT-sTkKEr VVksi.f.yax CiicnoH.— 7 a m Divine Sorvi .f. The ltev. Mr. Griffin, from England, will preauh. BAPTIST. Welleslev stkkkt Church.—ll a.m., a flower service. Uonqii- .ti, with .Scripture tex's attached to eaeh. will be handed in, and after service will be distributed by a committee to the various charit-i'le instigations in the city. A. co'.lecti-.n will be taken up in aid of a fund which already exists for building homes for the poor of the church. PRIMITIVE METHODIST. Alexandra strekt.—ll a.m., Divine service. - Sermon by Kot. J. Long. YOUNG MKN'S CHRISTIAN , ASSOCIATION. Wei,! ksli'.y and Alise u .t streets. —7a.m., meeting and breakfast for young men. ltev. Allan Webb will preside AMUSEMENTS. For Christmas Day.—Oriental Exhi. bition, from 7 p.m. till 10 p.m. EXCURSIONS. Vor Christmas Day.—North Shore and Woodnide—UoLf. will leave wharf every half-hour to North Shore, an 4 every hour to Woodside. BOXING DAY (FRIDAY). AIiUSKMKNTS. Ellersle.—StunnerMeeting of Auckland Racing Club. Fiistrace to start at 1 p.m. Theatre Koval.—"H. M.S. Piua'ore," by the Lingard C .inpany. LoKKEsTUKEr 11 all—Zulu War: A Grand Sorption Exhibition of Scenes of Battle, with lecture. To be followed by distribution of p.cseuts. Doors open at 730 p.m. Choral Hall —Ball and concert by Court City of Auckland of Foresters ; 7.30 p.m. Tickets 4?. Albert stkeft Hall.—(Mental Exhib : - tion. Open from 10 am.tolo pm. Otahuiiu Public llall. — Youry Meii'd annual b.il'. Howick Odhfellows' Hall.—A public ball. Excursions.—Kawau, s.s. Roto:nah-na, 10 a.m., riituru tickers, ss; Kawau, s.s. lona, 10 a.m., return tickets, os ; Wain-era (Hot Springs), s s. Gleuelg, 10 am., return ticket?, 5a ; Mo'utapu, s.s. Ariiyle. 10 a.m., return tickets, 3-<: Waiwera (Hcit'Spriiigs), 8.(". Ro'C Casey, 10 a.m., return tick- ts, U3 ; Waiheke Island, s.s. lijwuua, 10 a.m., rtturo tickets. 4s; tiie L»ke, s.s. Ki.te'pri-e No. 2, 10 30 a.m. and 2 p.m. leaving the Lake at 6 p.m., return tickets 2s ; Waiheke, s.s. Ivina, 10.30 a.m., return tickets, 2s Gd ; North .-hcire, eviry half-hour; Wuodside, every hour.