REJOICING IN SPAIN KEPT FOR THE NEW YEAR.
The Kings and Queens of Italy, Spain, and Portugal do not observe Christmas Day except as a religious festival. All their rejoicings are kept for the New Year, when these Sovereigns, in common with the French Republic, are in the habit of giving presents. And at this time of the year the sick and poor are never forgotten, and each Sovereign in turn shows an example to his or her subjects that all should give to those who, by illness or position, are reduced to a state nearly resembling that of the King of kings when He lay in the humble manger of an Eastern stable.
tures and sketches, and his family hope that they may some day be able to hang them in a permanent gallery and present them to the nation. As has been shown, Mr Richmond was a man of varied talent and extraordinary energy, and of him might truly be quoted Dr Johnson's words in relation to Goldsmith: — " Nihil quod tetigit non ornavit " (he touched nothing which he did not adorn), which are engraved on his tomb.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 16 (Supplement)
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189REJOICING IN SPAIN KEPT FOR THE NEW YEAR. Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 16 (Supplement)
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