TO-DAY'S FESTIVALES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 2266, 26 December 1881, Page 2

TO-DAY'S FESTIVALES.

Boxing Day of 1881 will not be behind »ny of its predece>sor» m the number of attractions provided for pleasure-seekeri, as it glance at the following will show. First on the lint comet the sports to be held m Green's paddock, Elizabeth street, under the auspices of th» Friendly Societiej of Timaru. A proce<> •ion of the various orders will start from (he Foresters' Hall, Georgo street, at half-past ten o'clock, and headed by the band of the Timuru Artillery, will march to the ground) where a long and varied programme of rporte will bo carried out. The handicap event* have been well filled, and the meeting promises to be a successful ona. Athletio ■ports will bo held at Watkins' Hotel, Rangitata Bridge, and at Tomuka ; the annual race meeting takes place at Albuty ; at Geraldino an eleven of (he Titniru tftttsd OHck'et Club

meet t> similar number of the GeraUline 0.0. ,- »nd at Waimate the local Caledonian Society hold their annual sports meeting, m Manchester's paddock, upd the Horticultural Society their spring showy'-' in the Public Soiiopi. ; ;. . I* ths evening the Christchurch Operatic Society will produce the comic opera "lei Cloches de Corneville," At the Theatre Bojdl, and-tbe Court Southern Cross, No. 3123, Order 'of Fors.ters, will hold their anni versary banquet m the Forcsterj' H»ll