BOXING DAY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 318, 26 December 1862, Page 4

BOXING DAY.

- There is a tolerable provision of amusentents of different k^nds provided for to-day, and as "Boxing Day with Englishmen all the world over, is one for amusement if it is to, be had, we doubt not that the several caterers will find themselves well rewarded.

Starting at ten o'clock, there are the games in the Commercial -Yard^ High street, for ■ which prizes are given by Mr S. E. R. Jones; a quoiting match for a silver cup worth £25, being the most prominent event. Leaping, foot-races, dancing, and the more diverting

"greasy pole," and jumping in sacks, are included in .the programme, which will pretty certainly be carried out with.yigor. , For the afternoon, and evening, Vauxhall Gardens offer their attractions, in the shape of the dancing rotunda, and facilities for game", apart from the more sedate pleasures of a delightfully rural stroll. •Dunedin is on a footing with the metropolis or the leading towqs in England in a matter peculiar to "Boxing Night"—namely, the1 production of pantomimes, for we are to have two tonight, when the first' attempt at that much-cherished English species of magic, mystery, fun, and buffoonery will be made in this colony. At the Theatre Royal, we are to have"" The Maid and the Magpie, or Harlequin and the: Fatal Spoon," and at the Princess's, " The Babes in the Wood, or Harlequin Rowland's Macassar, and the Little Queen of May." At the Oddfellows' Hall, George-street,

there is to be a ball, at which it is promised that there shall be a " first-rate quadrille band, under the leadership of Mr Oousens," and every endeavour to promote the comfort, of patrons. .■ ■ .