SECOND EDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4832, 4 February 1887, Page 3

SECOND EDITION.

Our Supplement to-morrow will contain the continuation of our serial, another of the interesting addresses on Buddhism, and an article on the British Navy that, at the present juncture, will be found full of information.

An important meeting of the School Committee will bo held this evening , , when the teaching staff for the side school will be allocated, and the members for the Education Board will be voted for.

"We have received from the proprietor, editor, and publisher, Mr R. 0. Harding, the first copy of a new publication called "Typo," a paper devoted to the interests of all in the printing trade. We trust the venture will meet with all success.

Mr H. P. Cohen has retired from his candidature for a seat on the Harbor Board.

This is the picture week of the winter season (writes the London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald Dn November 2 )th). At such a time one cannot help thinking of the quarrel of those Siamese twins of tßstheticism, Mr James M'Neil Whistler and Mr Oscar Wilde. The worshipper of the sunflower and the inventor of harmonies in yellow and nocturnes in grey has written a vile thing in the World, in which he says Oscar knows no more of art than he does of a dress coot, and that his clever sayings are what he picks up at dinner tables, or words to that effect. Oscar replies, "This is very sad. With our James ' vulgarity begins at home,' and ehould be allowed to stay there." It is just as well for James that Oscar was restrained from inflicting , upon Ms revolted friend a condign and physical punishment; for while the poet of sestheticism is regarded by many dreamy young Indies as a pale shadowy ideal of the beautiful, he is really nothing of the kind. On the contrary, he is of Herculean stature, broad of chest, the very opposite of the Bunthorne of Punch and "Patience;" while "Our. James" is a short, excitable, emotional little American, with a white lock in his grey-black head that suggests the cockatoo. Some people regard these two gentlemen as more or less of charlatans; but the truth is they are bright, clever, educated, intellec-' tual men. They have evidently thought that eccentricity is a factor in modern art and social successes, which may account for the cheap halos with which they have in the past surrounded each other's individualities, not to say absurdities. But after all, solid work is the work that Ltsts, and friendships founded in esteem are more likely to be maintained than mere social alliances.

As the lady referred to opens here on Monday evening the following from the Masterton Daily will be read with interest: —" The Alleyne-Wade Dramatic Company commenced their short season in Masterton last evening, the opening performance, ' Puck,' being well patronised, especially in the downstairs portion of the theatre. To say that the play was a success' would not convey a sufficient expression of the opinions of last night's audience, for a more genuine, enthusiastic, and attentive assembly has not been gathered together within the walls of our theatre. The plot of this stirring drama was followed with rapt attention by all present from the prologue to the final scene, the various points being marked by continued applause, and the call for the performers at the end of the second and third acts was an indication of their appreciation. Miss Wade as the heroine ' Avice Dare ' fully realised the expectations that her reputation warranted, and the traits of character she exhibited in her interpretation of the discontented cottage girl, the caressed and courted, craftyLondon belle, and the daring, revengeful, disappointed actress, stamped, her as a dramatic artist of high merit.' While playing the deceitful and avaricious parts with decided feeling and expression, the declamatory passages in the green ropm and drawing room scenes were exhibitions of acting that have never been our lot to witness on a Masterton stage."