Local Intelligence.
Lyttelton Colonists' Society and Litek-
AitY Institution.—Mr. Rae's talents as a _* lecturer .have again been put in requisition to provide a special entertainment for the members of the Society and the public. On .Tuesday evening last, Mr. Rae gave a lecture, the second, which he has contributed to the series of the Society, on Popular Amusements. Confining himself on this occasion to a period about 1400 years before the birth of Christ, he handled the subject so as to illustrate not only the amusements themselves, but their influence upon the manners and customs generally of the time, and gave various and appropriate extracts from early authors by way of example. The Lecturer concluded with a promise to advance on some future occasion to a consideration of the sports and pastimes of early classic Greece, and thence to proceed through the epochs.of History to the present time. We may therefore look for a prolonged series of sportive disquisitions at his hands.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 414, 22 October 1856, Page 7
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162Local Intelligence. Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 414, 22 October 1856, Page 7
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