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Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4098, 30 December 1887, Page 3

Q AMARU CALEDONIAN SOCIETY TdE NINETEENTH ANNUAL GAMES Will be held on the SHOWGROUND, ON MONDAY & TUESDAY, JAN. 2 ft 3 1888. PRIZES For Dancing, Bagpipe Music, Banning, Walking, Jumping, Vaulting, 'Cyoliog, Wreßtling, etc. Qaioting, ToßßiDg Caber, Patting Ball, Throwing Hammer. Also, a Handicap 'lime Trot, for poniei under 13 hands J 1 mile; amitenr riders. Official Cards -of the Games will be sold oi the tiround, price sixpence. Nominations for running, walking, vault ingr, : jumping, bioyole and pony trot handicaps, will be received, addressed to the Secretary, at the Royal Hotel, Oamarn, not later than 8 p.m. on Tne3day, 27 th Decernber. . 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 up to 8 p.m. oi Friday, the 30th. Handicaps for day's Games will be posted at the Royal Hotel, at 8 p.m. on Monday, the 2nd; acceptances received uj to 11 p.m. Nominations '2a 6d, acceptances 2s 63. All other entries 2s 6d (except where otherwise specified), will be received np to a quarter of an hour prior to the starting ol each event. in entering for handicaps, competitors must tend in, along with their entries and colors, a list of performances for the paßt two years. Late trains will leave Oamarn on 2nd and 3rd for Palmerston, Ngapara, Kurow, and Timarn, stopping at intermediate stations. For fall particulars see riilway department advertisements. ADMISSION TO THE GROUND : Members and their Families, on producing their Tickets, FRKEj Non-members, Is Children, 6d. To the Grand Stand : Membra and their Families, FREE; Non' members, 2a; Children, 6d. ON THE EVENING OF THE 2ND OI JANUARY, A GRAND ELECTRIC LIGHT AND FIREWORKS CARNIVAL WILL BE BELD The Scciety have Imported from Mesert Brook and Co., Pyrotechnists to the Crystal Palace, London, the Grandest Assortment oi Set Pieces ever seen in New Zealand, In' eluding Fiery Pigeons, Fixed Suns, Bombs, Jewel t-'eta, bhell Mortars, Fire Fountains ol Gold and Silver Waters, and Huge Fire Balloons The Grounds will be lighted with twe large Electric Lights and Gas Illuminations, Two Large Platforms will be erected ir the Circle, giving dancing accommodation for 150 couples. A platform will be set aßide for Juveniles from Bto 9 p.m. Eacb platform will be under the superintendence of an efficient M.C. The Society's Pipari will play for all Scotch Dances, Admission to ground, Is ; Grand Stand, It extra; Children, half-price. Programmes posted to any address ou application to R. L. RULE, 547 Seoretary. PUBLIC NOTICES v< -<2BSSS&k r< NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS, 1887-88. SATURDAY RETURN TICKETS wll! be issued from any station to an] station, from 22nd December, 1887, to 3rd Jan., 1888, Inclusive, and will be available fc return np to and including Monday, 16tti January. EXCURSION TICKETS issued as follows, from 22ad December, 1887, to 3rd January, 18S3, inclusive (Sundays excepted), will be available for return up to and including Monday, 16th January, From Oamarn—- ' To Dunedin— First-olass, 16s 6d; eecond-class. 111 To Tnvercargill— First-class, 38j 6d ; eecond-olaBS, 26( To Kingston— First-class, 50s ; second-class, 33s To Christchurch—- • Firat-claßß, 25s ; second-olass, 18s Holders of Excursion Tickets may break the journey at any stopping-place on direct line of ronte, going or returning. Exourslon to Kingston will be available either via Invercargill or Waimea line. On the 26th and 27th December, 1887, and 2nd and 3rd January, 18S8, the Goode Shed at Oamarn will be olosed. 414 BY ORDER. v. «■ NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. EXOURSION FARES TC LAKE DIS. TRICT. Excursion tickets to Kingston will be issued at Oamarn, on any. date (Snndays excepted), from Ist December, 1887, to 31st March, 1888, and will be available for return from eight weeks from date of issue. The fares will be-First-class, L 3 10s; second-class, 12 10s. The tickets will be available either via Waimea Line or Invercargill, and the journey may be broken on direct line oi route, either going or returning, provided the specified time is not exceeded, 235 . HY ORDER; THE QAM AB O ||| All COMMERCIAL AND GENERAI PRINTING OFilC* Is famished with • MOST COMPLETE PRINTING PLANT, Comprising » very LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMEN or PLAIN AND FANCY TYPE. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF PRINTING kxbodtkd in MOST APPROVED STYLE, A very Extensive Stook of Every Desorip tion of PAIER AND CARDS Always In Stook, Manifest forms, both Foreign Ceaatwlse, can now be had at A Office