HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 684, 8 December 1909, Page 8

HUTT AND PETONE NEWS.

(Prom Our Sredal Eeporter.! ■''.-■~ —r~« — ■ —— . •■'■■ ;"-': ; .BOWING : ITEMS., ' . A meeting of ladies and gentlemen interested in the welfare- of the Petone Rowing Club was held in the, Oddfellows' Hall last night,' Mr. E. Moore presiding. Preliminary arrangements were made for holding a bazaar, in aid of the, club's funds, in the first week of June of next year. ... '.-, Tho race for' the' Mothes ' Cup ; for • senior pairs will be'rowed on Saturday. The President's Fours for senior and junior' oarsmen •will; be got off on the following Saturday.

"THE MESSIAH" AT LOWEE ;HTJTT. • , The Wellington Choral. Society made- an-ex-periment last night, when they visited Lower and gave a periorraancev of, "The Messiah." There was a fairly large audience in the • Drill Hall, though the building was not by any_means fulL In point, of rendering the performance was much the same as that given in Wellington last Friday. The "Amen" chorus was. omitted, and.the accompaniment was supplied .by a grand piano and a chamber organ, which, ot course, could hardly fill the place of the grand-organ or;an orchestra. Since this is- 'their first.' visit to Lower Hutt, and there are special expenses (including the chartering of a special train), in connection therewith,'the society are fully prepared for a financial loss on the performance, but the experiment was made, not.onlyas a trial, but with a view to the; possible attraction of extra performers, who will bo necessary for tho chorus, of "The Dream of Gerontius,": which is to be the society's next production.