St. Patrick's Day

Observer, Volume XXIV, Issue 27, 19 March 1904, Page 9

St. Patrick's Day

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. I* fby »lV «wS« «f Erin to ithe cele Dowwa vCrielcet Groufid. The/ oom tnittee pat forward l ;« -well. Varied pro gramme of races and athletic competi tion^ for young "and old. Some o thes^ are arranged on lines that shouh insure to the spectateis a maxitnun of amusement. Not the J^sast; interest ing will be a tug-of- war between team representing the four local Romai Catholic parishes. . In connection wit! the* f6te, an art union is 4.0, be drawn The first prize offered, i^ a -minera spechiren ratkiml^ab £3!?,- and there wil also be several other; mineral apeeimei prizes, valued at £1 each. . **• *. In the evening there will be a gran< national concert in the City Ball, fdi which an excelleat programme is ad vertised in another column. Arriong.s the performers will - be Madam< Wielaert, Misses Maud Tobias, Mam Donovan, Lilian Aulsebropk, ant Pauline Dempsey, the Very Rev. D; Egan, and Messrs Frank Graham am Wilfred Manning, all in song racy o the soil of Old Ireland, and Her Johann Wielaert in violin solos. It i a rare opportunity for revelling in th< lays of the old land.

The entries are already pouring in from a^ parts of the colony for the Northern Amateur Swimming Club's Carnival on Wednesday, March 30, Good Friday, and Saturday, April Ist. The programme, which is published in full in this week's issue, is und oubtedly one of the. best ever put before the Auckland public. Tl c many friends of Mr Hugh Wright, an old Newton boy, will be pleased to learn that he has returned from London, after an absence of some six years, and commenced business on his own account. Mr Wright's forte is " cutting "—not pricefy— and he has succeeded in bringing tack with with him a first class diploma from the London Academy of ~ Cutting. I