Wednesday being the first day of the new year was generally observed in Wellington as a holiday. The Government Offices an , the Union Bank were closed, the merchants and other stores were shut, and the good folk of Wellington were unanimously determined on having one day’s recreation. Ihe Hutt district appeared to possess the greatest attraction, and every cart and vehicle that could be pressed into the service was filled with settlers and their families wending their way along the Hutt road on a day’s pleasuring to the country. A well contested, game of shintie was played at Thorndon by the Scotch settlers, who laudably uphold, as far as circumstances permit, the observances of the old country. The morning was rather foggy but after 9 o’clock the mists cleared oft’ and the day became oppressively sultry;- —the weather throughout the week has been exceedingly warm and calm, hardly a breath of air stirring.
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 566, 4 January 1851, Page 2
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153Untitled New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 566, 4 January 1851, Page 2
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