... the Deaf and Doabo Institution the pupils will partalck of their annual Christmas dinner, at two o'clock, in the large dining-room of the institute. Last evening being Christmas Eve, the churches in town were all well filled, and in some special services ...

... CHRISTMAS. AGAIN the festive time is at hand. Christmas with its happy memories and hallowed associa- tions, has all but; reached as, and we alrea y hear, in imagination— Peace on will to men. Some, it may be, especially oar own neighbourhood, the season ...

... CHRISTMAS. THE present number of the GUARDIAN will reach a very considerable portion of our readers while assem- bled around the family hearth in cheerful and happy gatherings, luxuriating in the comforts of home, and the delights resulting from social ...

... East, Christmas was celebrated on the 6th of January. From the gospel of St. Luke, it was known that Christ was born during the night, and therefore Divine service was performed in the night of December 24-25, from which circumstance Christmas is called ...

... CHRISTMAS. Christmas is setting in in earnest, and this year it will be hailed with the usual right good welcome. Our streets are clothed in white and now prepared to give it that greeting which we have not witnessed in our town for many years. The boys-and ...

... homages to Christmas. Not only the prints shope, tay-shops, jewelleit VISt oo, itid o4 'special vaddtai&e of King Chtiaa were in theit most sumptuous siray, but the least romantic of callings claimed kinahip with tho season. Ther was Christmas ironmongery ...

... I ATURDi E - =BEto182 SA TURDAk,,PBCBMBB. 27, 1862. CHRISTMAS. TarE period of the week at which the great Christiant| festival has fallen this year would have made oar cas- tomary felicitations to our readers much too early had they been offered last ...

... fail to arise that this as well as last Christmas is unhallowed by the prime essence of theinstitution-peace. Though Nicholas, the guilty mover of the existing terrible conflict, did not survive to a second Christmas to witness the progress of the mischief ...

... and, in course of time, this practice became transferred to the Christmas festivities, now only recognised in the custom of drinking healths or ?? Eco.onemist. CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.-Christmas festivities are essentially of a social character; but that they ...

... CHRISTMAS. ' - I _I . g For some time we had been anticipating this year an oldfashioned Christmas, $th the appropriate sur roundings of snow ;ind ice. Something like a fortnight ago a sharp frost set in, and it continued so steadily that the higher reacoes ...

... CHRISTMAS. rs. PORTSMO UTH OBSERVANCES. it, A green Christmas, and one attended by mist n and rain. such ?? we have had this year, falls so as far short of the popular idea of what the weather ought to be, that people scarcely seem to realise OF that ...

... I CHRISTMAS. . & . ?? OxcE again Christmas is in our midst, and the pro- verbial New Zeslander, though unacquainted with Christian sentiment and our social habits, would easily see at a glance that it is indeed a festive sea- son. We ate at all times ...