CHRISTMAS ATTRACTIONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2652, 24 December 1915, Page 2

CHRISTMAS ATTRACTIONS

WHERE TO GO. To go somewhere that has. been strange to you for at least a twelve* month and do something that ;s not included in the yearly round is a call that is felt by most people at Christmastime. Wellington is happily placed to enable people to do a little, tripping. There are, for example, three expresses a day leaving for Auckland, tho track to the.;weird Waitojno.. C,ayes.:.ajid the always-delightful Hot'orjia and Te>Aroha.The Mardi,.Gras-Carnival . at-Napier . commences there on Monday next, where all visitors may depend on a variety of. amusements. Tho glorious Marh borough Sounds are only a three hours': run froni Wellington Harbour, and there the simple life may bo led to perfection. The Sounds are now teeming with oil launches that explore every nook and oranny of the mazy Sounds, and off the bluffs and headlands,.: there is always good fishing. To;-.; como nearer home, thero are always such places as Day's Bay, Roria Bay, Muritai, Lyall Bay,. Seatoun, Karaka'B&y, and Island: Bay, for day trippers, whilst there will be a' very complete time-table for those wishing for glimpjies-of. rustic life-tip tha line. For those who liko their holidays spiced with a little sport, there will be races at, Palmerst-ou,North on Monday,' Tuesday, and'-Wpdriesday next, and at' Clareyiile on Monday only. Tennis players will be more particular-) ly interested in the -Patriotic Tournament to be held on the Day's Bay courts to-morrow and on.Monday next. Bowlers will find all the local greens open'for play'throughout the holidays, and in view of the Centre Tournament, to oommence to-morrow week, the play, should be -unusually- keen. Trans-harbour excursions to Rdna and Day's Bay. will cater for those wishing a' breath of the sea on any of the nonwork days, and the City electric caw will run on fnll time-table to'the sea-* side resorts, Wadestown (where Wilton's Bush offers picturesque shade and faciii- ' ties for picnic parties), Karori, and tha . . beautiful Botanical Gardens. - ' 9 What is bound to be a popular attract - tion for the Roman Catholic fraternity will bo tho annual ipicnic to be held, m Father Lane's pleasant grounds'.at the Lower Hutt on Monday next. 'A picmo is also to be held at Karon on Monday^ Attractions for the holiday evenings will be offered at the Grand Opera' House, where the J. C. Williamson Company will open on Monday evening with the comedy drama, "BougKt ana Paid For," while special attractions are being put on from to-day at His Majesty's Theatre, the King's Theatre,. Everybody's, and the Empress.