A MERRY CHRISTMAS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 824, 21 December 1905, Page 35

A MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Chi’istmas Time, as this end of the year is generally spoken of, is one full of happy recollections of the past and full of pleasurable anticipations for the future. Accompanied, as it- usually is in this country, by pleasant weather, it casts a beneficent Tnlluence over nearly everyone. The average man laughs louder and longer, his heart of hearts opens, and he is disposed to feel at peace with all men. We will go so far as to say that we believe that even the most biUer top-liner will at least once dUri tT ‘fen'rMd ooutd be applace onßoxtgDay Following hard upon the . he ®\ s h recent local option poll, Christmas will be especially pleasurable to the Trade. The worry and hard work of t e triennial battle is over, the fight has been fought and won; the recollection of the victory will add to the enjoyment of the good things of Christmas lim . Those who have in six months time to relinquish their businesses have the sincere sympathy of many, many friends and acquaintances, accompanied by the assurance that at the end of three years those who know them best will leave nothing undone to reinstate their businesses. Even those who are affected by the result of the poll must partake of the feeling of exultation at. the general victory of the .Trade ; and it is hoped that their Christmas will be none the less merry. To our many friends and supporters we wish everything that is good ; we cannot say more. To our few enemies and opponents we also wish everything good, with the hope that they will become fewer and fewer as time wears on. To each member of the Irade we wish great success, may you all nick the double, and back first and second in each race, and if you can capture a prohibitionist feed him well, top him off with walnuts, a good glass of port.and a fragrant Havanna, and if then he won’t listen to common sense, send for the police.