SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1892,

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4303, 24 December 1892, Page 2

SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1892,

BEINO MB EXTENDED TITLE OF THE Waibabapa Daily, lyitn whioh it is IDENTICAL

T{ib young people born in the Colony regard Cbrislps time as a sepon for being jolly, a; an occasion for sending and receiving Christmas cards and presents, a time for eating as much as warm weather will permit them to eat, and an opportunity for folding picnics, sports,' and other outdoor amusements. To tliem the gracious anniversary is simply a fine weather holiday, But those who are older, and whose memory recalls a Christmas spent in the Motherland, have a difierent conception of the great festival, Who that has once seen the ground white witji snow at au English Christmastime, who has heard the village bells ringing their joyous peals, who has watched the bright eyes and tho rosy cheeks of the children where King; Frost reigns, will ever forget the scene? Christmas in England is one thing and Christinas in New Zealand is another, and no one who has been exhilarated by the former is likely to be unduly enraptured by the latter. Still, kind hearts, abound in New Zealand as well, as in the Mother Country, and it is quite possible to exercise here as well!as there those Christian virtues which aro the very css.enpe of' Cbrietuiaa, and tp be "morrie" iu the land whenCllio Southern Cross shines, ,

One of the happy influences of Christmaß is to unite in Kindly thought the old country and the new. At this season more than at any other tlie mind' of tho New Zealander is to travel taojrtotiio oldest

ibomO) while tbo latter in their reunions do not forget the'nbsent onesat the Antipodes. Tbo season should be a blessed one for all people that on earth do dwell, and there are few English men nnri women in any part of the habitable globe who may not at least try to make " A Happy Christmas.' 1