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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 50, 4 December 1871, Page 1

Amusements. THEATRE ROYAL. CAGLI AND POMPEI’S ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA COMPANY. GRAND SUBSCRIPTION S2ASON of SIX NIGHTS, coinmeucing THIS EVENIN G. December 4, with Verdi's grand Opera IL TROVATORE. Couut di LunaManrico - FerrandoRui z Inez Azucena - Leonora - Signor Filipjxj Coliva Signor Ferautc Rosnati Signor Fnrico Dondi Signor Francisc.j Benso Signora Luigia Tonrneric Signora Luigia Polli Signora Marglierita Zeuoni Tuesday Evening, December sth, Donizetti's Charming Opera, LUCIA PI LAMMERMOOR. Wednesday Evening, December sth Donizetti's Gland Opera LUCREZIA BORGIA ! Box office open at Marks’ Fancy Repository, next to the Theatre Royal, where Season Tickets, in packets of six, £2 2s, can be obtained and seats secured. Prices of Admission —Dress Circle Stalls, 10s ; Gallery, 4s ; Pit, 2s. ST. ANDREW'S CELEBRATION GAMES. NOTICE TO COMPETITORS. THE 200 yards Flat Race (Handicap) will take place at the Course, Tararu, on Tuesday next, December Gth, at 3 o’clock. All prizes won at the late games will be paid on Tuesday Evening, at 8 o’clock, at the Committee Room, Wharf Hotel. W, MCCULLOUGH, Secret ary. m II A M E S REGATTA Jf* January, 1872. Patron—His Honor the Superintendent, President—W. Frazer, Esq., R.M, PROGRAMME. 1— Sailing Boats under seven tons ; no tonnage allowance. Entrance, 10s. Ist prize : 2nd do. 2 Sailing Race, licensed watermen’s boats under sail. Entrance, 6s. Ist prize ; 2nd do. 3 Trading Vessels, 15 to 30 tons ; time for tonnage. Entrance, £l. Ist prize : 2nd do. 4 Four-oared Gig Race, open to any recognised club in the province : to be pulled by members. Entrance, 20s. 5 Eight-oared Whale Boat Race ; owned and pulled by Maoris. Entrance 20s. Ist prize ; 2nd do. 0-—Sculling Race, open to all comers ; open boats, not to exceed 21 feet over all. Entrance, 10s. 7 Fivc-oarcd Whale Boat Race, open to all comers. Entrance, 10s. 8— Pair Oared Licensed Waterman’s Race. Entrance, 6s. o—Four-oarcd0 —Four-oarcd Gig Race, all comers. Entrance. 20s. 10— Dingy Race, not to exceed 12 feet over all; to be pulled by boys under 15 years of age. Entrance, 2s (id. 11— Duck Hunt. J. M. MUIR. J, O. JONES, Hon. Sees. MARY-STREET, SIIORTLAND. ALEXANDER MILL w ISHES to call the attention of the RESIDENTS on KARAKA HILL AND SHORTLAND TO HIB NEWLY OPENED STOCK OF STRING AND SUMMER DRAPERY, Selected in the BEST and MOST FASHIONABLE MARKETS, and at Reasonable Rates. N.B. —Licensed Vendor of Stamps. JUST PUBLISHED, THE CIIIH S TIA N TIM ES . A Monthly Religious Family Journal for all Denominations. EDITED BY VARLOW DAVIES, M.A. Published at the Office of the JJaihj Southern Cross. THE CHRISTIAN TIMES contains valuable articles by Ministers and Laymen of different Denominations, Ecclesiastical Intelligence, Criticisms on the Leading Topics of the day, and good selections from the Current Literature of the day. Price (id. or 4s Gd per annum if paid iu advance ; if by post, Is. extra, j The Christian Times being circulated i among all denominations of Christians, is an ' rulr-'-pV.i,. niC( ]ium for advertisements.

* xuvjuium iui uuvuriisuillUDiS. Wllicll lie _ _ five years ending witn io»~, rr HEO . British people spent for mi</.. liquor the nice little sum of 514,842,540 pounds sterling,—about 2,500,000,000 dollars. This amount is about three times as large as the annual income of all the railways of the United Kingdom ; twice as large as the capital of all the sayings banks ; half as large again as the national revenues for the whole time, and fifty times as large as the collective income of all the religious and philanthropic societies in the country.