GOOD FRIDAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10418, 16 April 1897, Page 5

GOOD FRIDAY.

To-day being Good Friday special services will be held in the various Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, and meetings are announced by some of the other religious bodies. Morning Prayer will be said at St. Paul's Church at eleven a.m., and at halfpast seven p.m. there will be a shortened form of Evening Prayer with special Passiontide music, including appropriate anthems, solos, quartettes, etc. A number of well-known vocalists will take part. At St. Matthew's Church there will be Litany at half-past seven a.m. and Morning Prayer at half-past ten a.m. A threehours' devotion conducted by the Rev. W. E. Lush and E. Hayter Cox will commence at noon, and at 7.30 p.m. ovening prayer and sermon, with the " Story of the Cross." The Right Rev. the Bishop of Wellington Will preach at St. Sepulohro's Church at the eleven o'clock service. Appropriate services will also be hold at St. Mary's Cathedral, Parrtetl. The Wesleyan Methodists of the Auckland circuits will hold a united meeting at the Pitt-street Church at eleven a.m., when the Rev. A. K. Dewsbury will be the preacher, A united evangelistic service will be held in the Y.M.C.A. Lecture Hall as half-past seven m. The half-yearly rally of the Christian Endearourers will take place, a meeting being held at Wesley Hall in the morning at seven o'clock, and at the Tabernacle In the evening. A limelight service in tho Foresters' Hall, oonducted by Mr. George Aldridge, assisted by musical trlends is announced. There will be an address and appropriate musical items. A number of picnics will be held to-day, given to employes by owners of vehicles plying for hire. They include a picnic to the Tramway Company's staff, and the running nt the trams will, accordingly, be suspended to-day. Messrs. Paterson and Co., 'bus proprietors, Auckland and Devonport, will hold their annual picnic for employes, etc., to-day, at either Motatapu or Motuihi, according as the weather may necessitate. The steamer Victoria will leave the ferry tee at ton a.m., with the party, calling at North Shore Messrs. Paterson and Co. have generously provided the outing for their men. The Auckland Bowling Association's tournament opens to-day, on the Auckland Green, Grafton Road, whore a number of interesting matches will be played, if the greens are fit for play, after the heavy rain of yesterday. The two cricket teams from Whangaroi and Bay of Islands arrived from the North this morning by the f,s. Wellington and the s.s. Clansman respectively, to play a series of matches with local teams. To-day tho Whangarei team meet North Shore mi the latter'e ground, play commencing nt ten o'clock, and Bay of Islands will play United on tho Domain Cricket Ground, the match commencing at half-past ton. A select snored concert will take place at the Opera House to-night, All the best songs, both old and new, suitable to tho occasion, will be sung by well-known and popular vocalists, and illustrated with limelight view*. Mr. Charles Cooper's Myriorama of " Tho Story that Transformed the World" will be recognised as a very fine series of artistically treated sacred subjects. x\ 3 The Northern Company's fine paddle steamer Wakatero leaves at ten o'clock this morning on an oxcureion to the lower end of Waiheke, landing passengers at Mr. Thomson'." Bay. The Kiaora leaves for Putiki Bay at 10 a.m., and the Rose Casey (or Waiwera and Mahurangi Heads at the same hour, both returning in the evening. The Dovonport Ferry Company's steamer Tainui loaves for Kangitoto at 10 a.m., and after landing passengers proceeds on to Emu Bay. Motutapn. The Ferry Company will also despatch saeamers at 12.30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to Orakei, in connection with the native races to be hold there. The Newmarket Fishing Club leavo on an excursion to Waiheke, by the Osprey at 9.30 a.m. proceeding to Waiheke. The Devonport Forry Company will run steamers to St. Heliers Bay and Lako Takapuna during the day, and a quick service between Devonport, Northcote, and Birkenhead, will also be maintained,