NORTHERN FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2237, 14 January 1897, Page 39

NORTHERN FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.

By Svengali. Auckland, January 4. Bekv. Pasquin, — The Potter-Bdllew Company are still attracting brilliant and overflowing audiences nightly at tha Opera House. "David Garrick," " Cavalleria Rusticana," " Camille," and " The School for Scandal" were staged during the week, and very successful representations were given. The Royal Lyceum Pantomime and Burlesquo Compauyhave been showingto fair houses throughout the week at the City Hull. On Monday evening Mr Harry Crawford made his first appearance with the company. The pantomime "Aladdin" was staged on New Year's night before a large audience. Pollard's Opera Company are expected to open in Auckland at Easter time. Miss Celia Dampier, the gifted child violinist, assisted by friends, gives a farewell concert at Onehunga on the 4th. Miss Daropier shortly leaves for the south. The Auckland Exhibition still continues to

j attract large numbeis of spectators daily aud 1 nightly. Polly RolVTtaoa, Clara Delmar (Mis ' Gerald Shaw), J. L. Kennedy, aud Gerald Sliaw i made their first appearance during the week. The Thames Operatic Society's conc«rt, with J the assistance of Auckland amateuis, took place at the Academy of Music on the Ist before v good audience. | A man with" a Uttie money would, I think, do I good biz by opening the Columbia Skating Rink ; nor* for the coming winter season. I w.mld be 1 gl.id to afford any information on the point. I Last week two buahtuen direct from tha C"untry were asked if they had seen tho Potteri Bellow show. One of the bunhmen, who looked more like a wild kangaroo than a ru.ii>, thinking it waa a new drink, exclaimed that he'd sootier have n put o' Dunedin ale than all the pots o' beloo. Mr Fred Patey, late of the New Z 'aland Tivoli Company, is one of the "heads" at the Auckland j Exhibition. PUBLICATION* RECEIVED. Advertisers on an extended icale are oontinu< ally on the look-out for new modes of keeping their wares before the public eye, and the world reaps the benefit of this enlfrprine in many ca*es. The proprietor of B.euhain's P. ilia is si present attaining this object by issuing a Musical Album, containing the moat popular songß of the day, and a couple of these volumes, Nos. 9 aud 10, reach us from Me*srs Gordon and Gotch. E*vch voinroe contains tho mutio and words of 30 song« or pieces of muiic, occupying between 60 and 70 pages, and the whole series places ' before the public no fewer than 300 tong«. Th« publishing price is 2d per volume, or 3d by post, so that; for the expenditure of half a crown a really good supply of music may be obtained in a form which enables it to be carried from house to bouse without an? trouble. The desire to obtain detailed news from distant fields leads papers from new goldnelds to be eagerly scanned when they are received from friends on the spot, but comparatively few have the opportunity of seeing them with any degree of regularity. Recognising thin, Messrs W J. Priotor and Co., publishers have obtained the agency of the West Australian Goldfidd* Courier, an excellent weekly of 36 pages, published at Coolgardie. The paper is well printed, ia fairly illustrated, and contains all the local new*. The attractiveness of the Triad is considerably enhanced this month by the addition ol quite a number of illustration!, amongst which are several views of Timaru and a number of portraits of stage celebrities waoae faces are familiar to New Zealandert. The muaioal supploment is a gavotte. " Joyeuse," for 'cello and piano, by G. A. Payne. " Santa Clau« in the Flesh " is a meritorious story selected for our contemporary's recent prize competition.