FIXTURES FOR THE HOLIDAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 776, 28 March 1910, Page 7

FIXTURES FOR THE HOLIDAY.

Numerous attractions are advertised lor to-day which will be of special interest to those city'.'dwellers-who are not spending, the".Easter holidays "out . of-} town," i but are: merely making day excursions.' . ,'■', '•_. j. ... The second test cricket; match, Australia, v. New Zealand, will; be'continuedon, the Basin Reserve at 11.30 to-day. The shaping of the Dominion .team': at the wickets; will be watched- with' iui teTCst.to-dayl. The luncheon adjournment will be taken between 1.15 o'clock and! 2.16 o'clock. '". ,;• The steamer Maori makes a trip to Picton, leaving the wharf this morning . at 7.45 o'clock, j ; ...Wonderland will bVope'n all day, and .for this evening-special attractions are' '■ announced. : ; On the Sports Ground at Palmerston North, the .seventh annual gathering of the Manawatu and West Coast Caledonian Society, may bo .expected to draw a crowd.-" . " '•■ ■-,-.' .; The:Wairarapa Racing Club's autumn -,- meeting will be held at Tauherinikau, - and the Easter meeting of the Feilding .Jockey Club' is : another racing fixture likely to provide good sport. -:The Port Nicholson Yacht Club will hold a barbour.picnic .to-day at Day's ,Bay, ;, if-the weather continues fine., .Play will be resumed in the tennis tournament, the matches taking; place ■ on tho Thorndou and Brougham Hill ■courts. ';

A fireworks display . and kinemato£rapli entertainment will be given in the evening on the Petono Recreation .Ground. , The Besses o'-th'.Barn .'.Band will play at the Athletic Park this, afternoon'at 3'. o'clock, and this evening at 8, special ..-car arrangements having been made-for these concerts. .....' .His Majesty's Pictures. will_ show in a special programme this evening at the Town Hall. .... , ■, ,; There.will be matiness at the following theatres, iri addition to-the evening ■; performa noes:—Opera House ("Peter Pan"), Kind's Theatre (pictures'),. His ■■"theatre" (pictures), :St. :Thoma's's Hal!.'Newtown (pictures), and Theatre Royal (vaudeville).