AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 152, 28 June 1909, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

CHDNG LING SOO.

Chung Ling Soo, the famous Chinese conjurer, and the members of Mr Harry Kickards' Company, arrived yesterday by the Maiii Trunk line from Wellington, and will inaugurate a short season at His Majesty's Theatre this evening. Chung Ling Soo is said to be one of the cleverest magicians Chat ever deluded an." audience. It is stated there is a neatness, smartness and effectiveness about his tricks that proclaim the master hand. Much of his success is due to the -fact that he is a real enthusiast and practises his art for the love of it. It may be generally assumed the paraphernalia of „.a conjurer would be of a flimsy character. Nothing, however, could be more erroneous. Every article is perfectly made, of. the best material and would- be a revelation to the best joiner and mechanic. In addition to. this clever performer, the two Bells, Stewart and Lorraine, Mr Ted Kalman, The two Wheelers," the Australian D'Artos, Austitalia's Lifcfle Tich and Miss Cornwall will appear. The box plan is -Btill open at Wildman's. Early door day tickets are obtainable at H.M. Cafe. Early doors are open from 7 to 7.45, and the performance commences at 8 sharp. A matinee will be given on Saturday at 2.30.

; _ - OPERA HOUSE. The Geach-Marlow Dramatic Company ehowed~for the last time on Saturday night: in the sensational drama "Lured to London." To-night the company-will Btage, for the first time..in Auckland, a drama, entitled "The Woman Pays," a play,,which is said to be .full of action end absorbing- interest. The _ scenic effects and the general mounting the piece" will be a, feature of the production, i ■The full strength of the company will J>e in the cast, and Miss Ethel Buckley and Mr. Robert Inman will ibe seen in j congenial parts. ■BOYAL ALBERT TTAT.T,. . - The Pathe (Pictures attracted a large and apprecia-fciye audience to the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night last. The programme will 'be repeated again tonight and to-morrow night, and a complete change will foe made on. Wednesday. -,;.r.''%? IT" -t i "sSPfe 'nroii \. ■-^ A large audience- enjoyed the pictures In the Tivoli Theatre on Saturday evening. A new programme "wjfc-be submitted to-night, wheiu a." series~of new and interesting scenesV'wiU he presented;. During this week, "Joe England's featherweight wrestler, will appear at the Tivoli. OMEB>9BimA BOYS. Saturday night's -entertainment at the Choral Hall- by the California Boys was attended jby a-'-ery fair-sized audience, -which thoroughly "enjoyed the diversified ~ snd diverting, submitted By ; the ladE^omiColimibia-Eark. 1 ThiTbJJys left;the YtM.C.A. this morn- - Ing-in .brakes'- for the Penrose range, - where -ten of their best shots will coan- - veie against a like number of the One'.fcungau;adets«i;The Californian..iboy gaining the highest score,will be presented ■with, a handsome, gold medal by the citizens of'Onehunga. Luncheon was provided for Ahe 'boys at. the range, and they will (be driven back in time to eate-h the Victoria, for Sydney.

Wihile speaking at the opening of "new Courthouse, the Minister for Justice, Hon. ©r. Findlay, made brief * reference to -what a Court qi Justice really meant. In the- British Empire, "it was, he said, something more than . a mere public Building. It stood, or should stand, to every /member of the nation as 'a■'. yisual representation of those liberties for which our forefathers had'to ■truggle so -many centuries. (Applause.-) It was a tribunal before which" all people were equal, and a place, where a man •who had suffered, wrong might with .confidence seek to obtain"*redress." But it had not. come to the nation without bloodehed jand martyrdom. One of the finest evidences of our-civilisation was -that we had" Courts of Justice presided over by men fair and" impartial, where the least oFus could go.with.entire confidence, that" justice would be done. To-day in New .Zealand there were one hundred and fifty Courts of Justice opening their doors to men seeking redress from wrong. In this conueeiiro he .wanted to say that the Government had'not really been niggardly in its answer to those demanding increased Courthouse accommodation. They must all know that in a progressive country like this the.knocking at the doors of the Treasury was loud and long and. insistent. There were at .present; fortxiyo- places in New Zealand where Court sittings had to be held in private premises because no proper Court rooms were available, so that of the one hundred .ari&Jiinety-two- places where justice was .'administered forty-two were only ;iut still, as much-had been done as 'could be afforded at. the present,and he wanted to impress upon those who might think they had been | kept, waiting tpo long that the Government had to keep an eye upon the whole of the Doxninion, and look impartially upon all its