"NIOBE" AT PALMERSTON.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 592, 21 August 1909, Page 10

"NIOBE" AT PALMERSTON.

•• '' ■•'■.'. — ♦— — '" Tliefo was an excellent''attendance at the Opera Houso, Palmersten, last night, for tho performance of "Niobo" by Wollington amateurs. Miss Hardingc-Maltby fiDod i.be roio of tho reincarnated Greek goddess, her olociitioiiary powers being a special featuro of tho interpretation. 'The audience- recalled her after each act. Miss Kane . gavo_ a specially 'fine performance of Helen Griffin Dunn's acidulous Bister-in-law, and another good performance was that of Mr. Bastin as Peter Amos Dunn. Ho kept tlio audience in continual merriment. Miss Rita Simpson mado a very pretty Beatrice, and others in • tho east were Miss Boriia Milcss, and Miss Klsio Watson,' who- was a bright feature aS , Hattie. Amongst the audiGnco wore: Mrs. R. S. Abraham, Misses M. and S. Abraham, i Mrs. Monro, Misses Monro (2),' Mrs. Taplin, Miss Fell', Mr. and Mrs. C. E. WaJdegravo, Misses Margaret and Dorothy Waldogravo. Mrs. Wavburton, Miss Warburten, Mr. and . ' Mrs. A. Strang, Mr. and Mrs. AV. Strang, ; .- Mr. and' Mrs.' Opie, Mrs. A. D. Thompson, Miss Wilson,' Mrs: Porritt, Mrs. Ha-ukins, Mrs: Fitzherbert, Mrs. M'Rac, Mrs. C.. • • Louissnn, Mrs. Stedman,' Mr. and Mrs. •' ' Forster Pratt, ■. Mr.- and Barker ! (Hawfce's Bay), Misses Fraser and Craven, Mrs. Holmes, Misses Slack; Sybil' Abraham, . R-attray, Mills, Hindmarsli (Napier)," Mrs. W. Bi'dwill (Feathorsten). Mrs. Guy WilIliams (Masterton), Miss Elgar, Miss Hamlin . (Napier), Misses Tolhurst, Dean, Duncan,: Humphreys, M'Owen, Lffley, and Collinß. Mr. Orraehy Gore Adams, mining ongi- • ncer, son of Mr. C. Wt Adams, Hntt, returns to the Dominion next .Wednesday by the Moana from Sydney,, after an absence, of about two years. Part of the time was spjent in South America reporting on the rrtinea at Sainto Isobel, Republic of Colombia,. and the la>st few months rejx)rting on mince at Major's Creek, New South Wales; for • an English syndicate. :...'.' ■/ ■':■. ...... The Press ■ Association S advises that Mr. W. Rout; sen., founder of tho firm of Rout and Sons, financial agents, Nelson,- and Councillor Gill, of Wakapuaka, are dead. Mr. Rout was a' prominent citizen who had for many years been identified'with tho pro-. gress of ihc town *nd.district. Mr.".Gill, bom ■ inlß62atWakapuaka;was-.tho6onof an old colonist, his father having'arrived ia '.Nelson in 1842 in tho ship Mai7 Ann.' It is announced in tho Melbournp of Commerce , ' that Mr.- Ernest W. Hunt,' F.1.A.N.Z., a member of the firm of Messrs. Barr, Eeary, and Williams; public faccp'aiitants, of , this city, has'T>een' advanced te'.the status,of Fellow of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants of yictpria.:;Mr.'Hunt, who has be<(nan / associate of tlio yicterian Institute for some years, will act as corresponding member of' that Institute in itliiß . Dominion. '.■', v.' ''' ,' ~' ' ■ :'. •■'.': ' • Tho Vacuum Cleaning Company, 118 Ghuznce Street, aro prepared to roooive orders-for all " classes of cleaning • with A:eir motor vacuum ■ cleaner.. '• " V/■'.".; . ' '~ ■' .'•;-.' ''■'■-.'■ .."'Other ' tobaedds have.no oharm onoo. Mild . DERBY is emoked. It is neither too strong nor. yet too mild—a delightful mellow blond. Try it—2oz. tins or-plugs..' "' , •,'■-.■ 5