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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5798, 29 October 1879, Page 1

Amusements rpHEATKE ROYAL. Lessees—Messrs. Hiscocks, Hayraan and Co. Easiness Manager ... Mr. K. A. Marshall. THE RENOWNED LINGARDS And their Melbourne Company, THIS (WEDNESDAY) EVENING, Grand Comedy and Comic Opera, OUR BOYS! Middlewick (755th time) Mr. W. H. Linbard Mary Melrose (535th time) Miss Alice Lixgakd Conclude with (first time here) the comic Operetta, in one act, by G. Operti, entitled ILADR O N I . (The Robbers). Mr. Figg Mr. W. H. Discard. Supported by full Company, Orchestra, and Chorus. Box Plan at Mr. Holliday’s, Stationers’ Hall. *V7).— Messrs, /fiscocks and Hayman only advertise in Wellington in the Ketc Zealand Times and Evening Post. CADE M V (Ti MUSIC Lessee ... Professor Jonas FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, AND EVERY EVENING, The Greatest Novelty of the Age, PROFESSOR JONAS’S GRAND ILLUSIONARY AND COSMOPOLITAN ENTERTAINMENT. THE GHOST ! THE GHOST ! The greatest Scientific Illusion ever discovered. Spiritual Illusions and Mystery, the Phantom Minstrels, the Mammoth Variety Combination, National Songs and Dances, Metempsychosis, Marvellous Illusions, the Enchanted Chair, the Spectroscope, the Haunted House. The most novel and marvellous entertainment ever presented to an audience. Admission—ls., 2s. (id., and Is.; children, half-price to front and second seats. Doors open at 7.30, commence at S. Carriages may be ordered for 10.30. Box office at Engleman's Fancy Bazaar, where seats may be reserved. A Matinee on Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. On this occasion children 6d. each' to second and back seats; adults, Is.; front seats, children Is., adults 2s. W. T. KEITH, Agent. Sporting RACING CLUB. ANNUAL MEETING. ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 & G, ISSO. FIRST DAY. Maiden Plate of 40 sovs. Entrance, 2 sovs. One mile and a half. Hurdle Race of 50 sovs. Entrance, 3 sovs. About two miles, over seven flights of hurdles. Hack Hurdle Race of 10 sovs. Entrance, 10s. Mile and a distance. Wellington Clt of 400 sovs. Second horse to receive 30 sovs from the stakes. Two miles. The winner of any handicap race of the value of 200 sovs. after declaration of weights, to carry 71bs. extra ; of two or more such races, lOlbs.; of any handicap race of the value of 100 sovs to carry slbs. extra ; of two or more such races, 81bs. extra. Nominations, enclosing 2 sovs, to be made to the Secretary, Empire Hotel, Wellington, before 8 p.m. on Thursday, 6th November, 1879. Weights declared on Monday, 24th November, 1879. Acceptances to be notified, and 4 sovs paid, before 8 p.m., on Friday, 19th December, 1879, the balance of 6 sovs to be paid on night of general entry, Monday, 19th January, 1830. Flying Stakes Handicap of 50 sovs. Threequarters of a mile. Nomination,)! sov, to be made on night of general entry. Weights declared at 8 p.m. night before the races. Acceptances with 2 sovs to lie paid to the Secretary before 10 p.m. night before the races. Hack Race of 10 sovs. Entrance, 10s. Mile and a distance. SECOND DAY. Empire Plate of 100 sovs. Entrance 5 sovs. Weight for age. Second horse to receive 25 sovs from the stakes. One mile and a quarter. For all horses owned six months previous to the race by bona fide settlers of the Provincial District of Wellington. Hurdle Handicap of 75 sovs. About two miles, over eight flights of hurdles. Nomination, 1 sov, on night of general entry. Weights declared 8 p.m. night of first day’s races. Acceptances with 3 sovs to be made before 10 p.m. Wellington Racing Club Handicap of 200 sovs. Second horse to receive 25 sovs from the stakes. Nomination 3 sovs on night of general entry. Weights declared S p.m. on night of first day’s races, and acceptances with 5 sovs to be paid before 10 p.m. the same night, to the Secretary, at the Empire Hotel. One mile and a half. Hack Race of 10 sovs. Entrance, 1 Os. Minimum weight, Bst. Mile and a distance. Ladies’ Purse of 30 sovs. Entrance, 2 soys. Gentlemen riders. One mile and a half. Consolation Handicap of 30 sovs. Entrance, 2 sovs. One mile. General entry night, Monday, the 19th January, 1880. All communications, entries, &c., to be addressed to the Secretary, Empire Hotel, Wellington. H. M. LYON, Secretary. Hotels STAR AND GARTER HOTEL CUBA-STBEET. J. T. WILKINS (late of the Upper Hutt) has much pleasure in informing his friends and the general public, that he has purchased the lease of the above well-known Hotel, and that he is now ready to receive visitors and boarders. The house is quite new, having been recently erected, no expense being spared to secure the comfort of all who may favor its proprietor with their patronage. The accommodation for Travellers, Boarders, and Families, is unsurpassed by any hotel in the city, while the charges are reasonable. The proprietor has decided to make the Star and Garter famous for the superiority of its Wines, Spirits, Beer, Stout, &c., &c. gPECI AL NOTICE GEORGE LANCASTER having purchased the Lease of the MELBOURNE HOTEL, Willis-street, begs to nform hia friends and the Travelling Publie that the House is now being thoroughly renovated and newly fitted up. It contains 50 spacious rooms, with ho and cold water baths, and for position is the best House in Wellington. Families and Boarders will find every home comfort. Lunch from 12 till 2 daily. Dinner at 6 p.m. Remember the Proprietor— GEORGE LANCASTER, Late of the Royal Hotel, Featherston. N.B.—A Night Watchman is always on the Premises. UNION HOTEL Willis-street, Wellington. ME, GEORGE S. NICHOLLS Is now the proprietor of the above well-knowt Hotel, and intends, with strict attention to business, to secure that favor from the Wellington public which he experienced in the Panama Hotel. None but the best liquors to be had at the Union HeteL A Splendid (Alcock) Billiard-tabla on the [premises.