EASTER HOLIDAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12239, 7 April 1903, Page 5

EASTER HOLIDAYS.

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS. Ssvehal attractions are announced for Easter, and given fine weather there should be no lack of enjoyment for pleasure-seekers during ilu; holiday period. The Auckland Racing (Jlub will hold its autumn meeting at Ellerslie on Saturday next (April 11), Easter Monday and the day following. Special trains will bo run to the coarse as usual. The principal events on the first day will be the Easter Handicap and the Great Northern Champagne Stakes. On Good Friday evening there will be a production of " Sta.bat Mater" at His Majesty's Theatre. The programme will also include a number, of miscellaneous vocal items. / A sacred concert will be given in the Opera House by the Steele-Payne Family of Bellringers on Good Friday night. On Saturday night Anderson's Dramatic Company will open a season at His Majesty's Theatre in the sensational drama, " The Worst Woman in London." There will be Easter excursions to Rotorua, Wairakei, and Taupo. A special train will leave Auckland for Rotorua at ten o'clock on Thursday night, and will leave Rotorua on the re-turn journey at twenty minutes past seven p.m. on Easter Monday, arriving in Auckland at three o'clock on the following morning. Reduced coach and launch fares are announced by Cook's agency, and these will be issued in conjunction, with the railway excursions from to-day until Easter Monday, and will be available for return until May 12. Steamer excursions to Waiwera will be run by the McGregor Steamship Company, under arrangement with the Waiwera Hotel Company. Steamers will leave on Thursday,Friday, and Saturday, all excursionists returning on Tuesday by the s.s. Claymore. The Coastal Steamship Company announce a special time-table to Waiwera, Orewa, and Warkworth, steamers leaving on Thursday, Saturday, and Monday. , ' The- New Zealand University carnival will be held on Saturday, Easier Monday, and Tuesday. On Saturday tennis champ:-nsuip matches will be played on the Eden and Epsom lawns between representatives from Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, ? and Auckland A debating contest for a championship shield will be held in the evening. An athletio tournament will be held on the Auckland Cricket Ground on Easter Monday, and the tennis finals will be played off on Tuesday. . . The Auckland Bowling Association will hold a tournament on the Auckland green on Good Friday. Saturday, Easter Monday and Tuesday. Play will be commenced at nine o'clock each day. The trophies and prizes will be presented at a smoke concert to be held in the Federal social hall on Tuesday evening. The Auckland Garrison volunteer corps will go into a camp of instruction at Castor Oil Bay, Takapuna, on Thursday evening. The infantry corps will remain under canvas for four days and the mounted corps for a The Rotorua athletic sports will be held on Easter Monday. Entries for the principal ' events will close to-morrow evening. Those desirous of attending the sports will bo able to take advantage of the reduced railway fares. ' The Thames Foresters' sports at Parawai and th« Papakura athletio sports will be. held on Plaster Monday. , . . -, The Auckland carters' annual picnic and sports will be held ht Pine Island on Good Friday. Boats will leave at half-past nine a.m. and one p.m. ' The Waitemata Boating Club will hold its annual picnic and aquatic sports at Kohimarama or Drunken Bay, Motutapu, on Saturday. Boats leave at ten a.m. and aquarter past one p.m. The Railway Department have arranged special time-tables over the various lines, particulars of which may be obtained from the advertisements and posters. la addition to the above fixtures, a large number of the usual water excursions and picnics will be held during the holidays.