TELEGRAPHIC.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3352, 31 December 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

Lyttelton RegattaWellington, Dec. 31. The Star Boating Clnb send a crew consisting of Messrs Batkin, Stock, Webb and Gibbs, down by the Wairarapa to row in the Senior Fours at the Lyttelton regatta to-morrow.

Attention is drawn to an advertisement in another column announcing the disposal of £II,OOO worth o£ freehold property in New Sonth Wales by the art anion principle. The Australian Blondin will appear in the Market Aeserve to-night an J to-morrow night. The tent is a large roofless one, and is capable of accommodating a large number of people. The Australian Blondin ! has met with great success in other places. A select plain-dress ball is announced for tomorrow evening in the Barnard Street Hall. Mr G. Williams will act as M.C., and the services of an excellent quadrille hand have been secured. The Banks inTimaruwill be closed on ' Wednesday next, in addition to New Year’s Day—Wednesday, January 2, being a Special Bank holiday. Ada Mantua, the well-known Oonanlta' lionist, Ib again in the field with a monster programme on the Dunedin Oup. The advertisement appears in another column. Gilbert and / lullivans’ capital opera . eomique “ Patience” is ti be presented the Theatre Boyal by the Timaru Musical and Dramatic Club, on January Btb and :9th. The simple announcement of this now famour, opera is enough to draw a ■ very good house, but when it is men* tioned that the Club have been in careful rehearsal for months past, that the wardrobe and scenery are on a really magni* ' Scent scale, and that the orchestra com- . prises our best instrumentalists, additional Inducement has been given to the public i to muster at the Boyal. The cast includes the best amateur musical and dramatic , talent of the place, many of whom have acquitted themselves well in “Ohilperic” ‘ and other plays.