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Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4097, 29 December 1887, Page 3

SPORTS f"V AMARU CALEDONIAN 80CIETY. THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL GAMES Will be held on the SHOWGROUND,, on ': MONDAY & TUESDAY, JAN. 2 &>3, PRIZES For Dancing, Bagpipe Mnaio, Running, Walking, Jumping, Vaulting, 'Cycling, Wrestling, etc. Quiotlng, Tossing Caber, Putting Ball, Throwing Hammer. _ \ Alsoi a Handicap' 'jume Trot, for ponies under 13 hands; 1 mile ; amateur riders. Official Cards of the Games will be sold on the Ground, price sixpence. Nominations for running, walking, vaultinij, jumpiDg, bioyole and pony trot handicaps, will be rrcelved, addressed to the Secretary, at the .Royal Hotel, Oamaru, not later than 8 p.m. on Tuesday, 27th December. Handicaps for the events to be run on the first day of. the Games will be published in the N.O. Times and Mail of Thursday, the 29th ; acceptances received np to 8 p.m. of Friday, the 30th. Handicaps for eecond day's Games will be posted at the Boyal Hotel, at 8 p.m. on Monday, the 2nd; acceptances received up to 11 p.m. Nominations 2s 6d, acceptances 2a 6d. All other entries 2a 6d (except where otherwise specified), will be received up to a quarter of an hour prior to the starting of each event. In entering for handicaps, competitors must send in, along with their entries and colors, a list of performances for the past two year?. Late trains will leave Oamaru on 2nd and 3rd for Falmerston, Ngapara, Knrow, and Tlmaru, stopping at intermediate, stations. For full particulars see railway department advertisements. ADMISSION TO THE GROUND: Members and their Families, on producing their Tickets, FRBK; Non-members, la Children, 6d. To the Grand Stand : Membra and their Families, FREE; Nonmembers, 2s; Children, 6d. ON THE EVENING OF THE 2nd OF JANUARY, A GRAND ELECTRIC LIGHT AND FIREWORKS CARNIVAL WILL BE BELD The Scciety have Imported from Messrs Brook and Co., Pyrotechnists to the Crystal Palace, London, the Grandest Assortment of Set Pieces ever seen in New Zealand, including Fiery Pigeons, Fixed Suns, Bombs, Jewel Seta, Shell Mortars, Fire Fountains of Gold and Silver Waters, and Huge Fixe Balloons The Grounds will be lighted with two large Electric Lights and Gas Illuminations. Two Large Platforms will be erected in the Circle, giving dancing accommodation for 150 couples. A platform will be set aside for Juveniles from Bto 9 p.m. Each platform will be under the superintendence of an efficient M.C. The Sooiety's Pipars will p'ay for all Scotch Dances, Admission to ground, la ; Grand Stand, Is extra; Children, half-price. Programmes posted to any addresß on application to R. L. RULE, 547 Secretary. PUBLIC NOTICES. NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS, 1888. CALEDONIAN SPORTS AT OAMARU, 2nd and 3rd January, and . GRAND PYROTKCHNIC DIBPIAY On the night of the 2nd January. THE following alterations in, and additions to, the Ordinary Train Service will be made in connection with the above:— • NORTH LINE. The 7.20 a.m. train- from Oamaru to Timara will inn through on both days, leaving Oamsru at 740 a.m.; Pnkeuri, 7-59 a.m. ; Waitaki North, 835 a.m. ; arriving at Timarn at 10.50 a;m. The 7;20 a.m. train from Timaru to Oamaru will run through, from Timaru to Oamaru on both days, leaving Timaru at 7.40 am., arriving at Oamaru at 11.0 a.m. The 4.20 p.m. train from Oamaru to Trimaru, and the 4.40 p.m. train from 'Timaru to Oamaru will run through on both days, and will each run fifty minutes later than usual Train leaves Oamaru at 5.10 P ' m ' KUROW BKANCH. The morning train from Hakateramea to Oamaru, and the evening train from Oamaru to Knrow, will run at the following [altered times : Depart . a.m. Depart p.m. Hakateramea 8.25 Oamaru .„ 6.0 Kurow ... 8.45 Pukeuri ... 6.20 Strachan'a Duntroon ... 933 Uxbridge ... 7.8 Uxbridjte ... 10.5 Duntroon ... 7.45 Papakaio ... 10.40 Strachan's ... 8.17 Pukeun ... 10.57 Knrow (arr.) 8.30 Oamaru (arr.) 1115 SOUTH LINE. The morning (7.30 a.m.) train from Palmerston to Oamaru, and the evening (4.25 p.m.) train from Oamaru to Palmerston, will run at the following altered times : gDepart. . a.m. Depart. p.m. Palmerston ... 8.0 Oamwru ... 5.40 Shag Point Maheno ... 6.15 Junction ... 8.23 Herbert ... 6.35 Hillgrove .~ 8.46 Hampden .„ 7.8 Hampden ... 9.8 Hillgrove ... 7.24 Herbert ~ 9.40 Shag Point Maheno .- 10.3 Junction' ... 7.47 Oamaru (arr.) 10.40 Palmeraton(arr) BJO On Monday, January 2nd, a Special Train will leave Oamaru, for Hampden, at 11,20 p.m, stopping at all intermediate Stations. NGAPARA BRANCH. Ordinary time time table will be suspended, and the train service will be as under:— ' Oamaru (dep.) 7.10 a.m. 5.15p.m, Waiareka „ 7.25 „ 5.29 „ Elderslie „ 8.5 „ 67 „ Ngapara (arr) 8.35 „ 6.35 „ Ngipara (dep.) 9.0 a.m. 6.45 p.m. ■•- Elderslie „ 9.30 „ 7.15 „ Waiareka „ 10.17.,, 8 2 „ Oamaru. (arr) 10.25 ~ 8.10 „ On Monday, Jan. 2rd a special train will leave Oamaru for Ngapara at 11 35 p.m. The above trains will stop at Flag Stations, if ieqaired, as usual. i The Goods Shed at Oamaru will be closed I on the 2nd and 3rd of January. 527 BY ORDER. WARDEN'S COURT. POSTPONEMENT OF SITTINGS. —IHE Sitting of the Warden's Court at —■ Livingstone, which was ; fixed for December 30th, is postponed until FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd, 1888, at 11 am. ' H. W. ROBINSON, Warden. Oamaru, December 29th, 1887. JLi Kakanni Road (South Oamaru) and Teat-street, a Diamond PIN. Kinder will be Rewarded'upon delivering it at the Office of this Paper;' J. COTTAGE, ait Moeraki; 5 rooms and Bcullery.—Apply J. H.' Lambert, North East Valley, Dunedin. 680