FREDERIC VILLIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 197, 19 August 1895, Page 3

FREDERIC VILLIERS.

Mr Hogo Fischer, representative of this famous war correspondent and artist, on behalf of the well-known entrepreneur, Mr R. S. Smythe, arrived in Auckland yesterday, and is now completing arrangements for a short series of three lectures to be given by Mr Frederic Viliiers in the Opera House on Wedneeday next^ 21ab inst., and following two nights. Mr Villiera, who has just terminated one of the most successful Australian lecture seaaons, drawing crowded houses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide, is now lecturing in the South, where his appearances are simply a continuation of his. marvellous successes in Australia. The Princess Theatre (Dunedin) and Theatre Royal (Chriatchurch) have been crowded bo overflowing at each of hia lectures. One reason of the greab fascination his lectures prove to bo is — beside hi* force as a lecturer, the intense interest of his subject and the beauty and originality of his limelight views—may be the fact bha*) we are hearing the narrative of his thrilling experiences from his own lips even before he has told fchem in the Old Country. As is well known, on leaving Japan, Mr Viliiers accepted an invitation by cable from Mr Smythe to come to Australia first, an invitation he accepted to the fullest satisfaction of himself, the entrepreneur, and the public generally. Mr Villiera has been through nine campaigns, and his reminiscences of them are of absorbing interest. On Wednesday evening he will deliver his famous lectures, " War on a White Sheet)" and " With the Japs ab the Front," throughout illustrated by splendid and original limelighb views and snapshots taken by himself on fche spot of the thrilling and pathetic scenes witnessed by him. > The box plan is now open ab Messrs Wildman aud Lyell'a.