ARRIVAL OF THE REVCHARLES CLARK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 236, 6 October 1890, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE REVCHARLES CLARK.

This celebrated lecturer, whose name for some years has been tho proverbial household word throughout bhe colonies, arrived in Auckland by the Zealandia this morning. Mr Clark returned to Australia after an absence of ten years in the Old Country last April, and since then has been busily engaged lecturing in the principal towns and cities. It might have been thought thab after so long an absence the famous entertainer had been forgotten, or that some one of the eminent men and women who have followed Mr Clark on the lecture platform, had supplanted him in popular favour. But it was not so. From his first lecture in Melbourne to his last in Sydney, he has appeared to immense audiences, and more than the old enthusiasm has been revived. Mr Clark's lasb appearance in Australia was the night before he left, when, to relieve Mr W. T. Best, the world-renowned organist, who was indisposed, of a portion of hia labour, Mr Clark consented to give three recitals. The attendance was the largest recorded in the history of the profession in Australia, thousands literally being unable to gain admission to hear the unparalleled combination. The "Sydney Morning Herald " describes the scene outside the hall as one of " wild excitement." Mr Clark will deliver a short series of his inimitable entertainments in the Opera House, and will then make a flying farewell trip Ehrough the islands. The subject and date of bhe opening lecture will be announced to-morrow.