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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 88, 16 April 1881, Page 3

npHEATRE ROYAL. Lessee and Manager ... Mr. R. J. De Lias. SATURDAY, 16th APRIL. SATURDAY, 16th APRIL. SATURDAY, 16th APRIL. GRAND EASTER ATTRACTION. GRAND EASTER ATTRACTION. Powerful Combination of Talent. FOR POSITIVELY SEVEN NIGHTS ONLY. Engagement of — HAMILTON DANITES WALLACE DANITES RIGGS DANITES HAMILTON DANITES WALLACE DANITES RIGGS DANITES HAMILTON DANITES WALLACE DANITES RIGGS DANITES THE MOST POWERFUL DRAMA OF THE DAY. Box Office now open at Holliday's. Prices as usual. AC A DEMY oIF MUSIC. Lessee A. S. Dunning. GREAT HOLIDAY ATTRACTION. Genuine Holiday Prices. 3s, 3s, 3s, 3s; 2s, 2b, 2s, 2s; Is, Is, Is, Is SrLENDio Company. WALTER REYNOLDS, Charles Hall, Harry Power, Miss Lola De Glorian, Miss Maud Vincent, Mr J.R. Jewett, Mr. J. W. Tyrrell, Miss L., Underwood, and a full and powerful Company, in an entirely new version of Charles Dickenß' wonderful and Dramatic Romance, OLIVER TWIST. OLIVER TWIST. Fagin (the Jew Fence) Mr. Walter Reynolds Bill Sykes (the Burglar) ... Mr. Chan. Hall Bumble (the Dodger) ... Mr. Harry Power ' Nanay Sykes Miss Lola De Glorian Mrs. Corney Miss Maud Vincent Oliver Twist Miss L. Underwood And a complete ca«t of characters. New Scenery by Willis. To commence with the screaming holiday Irish Farce, THE LIMER LCK BOY. Paddy Miles Mr. Harry Power EASTER MONDAY— An Enormoue Double Holiday Programme — THE CORSICAN BROTHERS, now being played with such unprecedented success in London ; and the famous Dramatio Romance of DICK TURPIN. Holiday Prices— 3s, 3a, 3s; 2s, 2s, 2s; Is, Is, Is Seats booked at Holliday's. LAST TWO DAYS OF THE GREAT WAXWORK EXHIBITION At St. George's Hall. SATURDAY AND MONDAY. This Mammoth Collection has been Exhibited for over twelve months in Sydney, where ov«r 100,000 persons visited it, and waß pronnounoed to be the moet Artistic and Instructive Exhibition ever seen in the Australian Colonies. Comprising — The Outlaws of the Wombat Ranges — Kelly Gang (two magnificent groupß) — Ned Kelly's Armour — The Melbourne Opera House Tragedy — The late Prince Imperial, How he Died in Zulnland — The Two-headed Nightingale, and numerous other groups. Admission, Is ; children half-price. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. TIANCY DRESS BALL Will be held in the PRINCESS THEATRE, TORY-STREET, On Easter Monday. Admission, 2a 6d. Dancing commences at 9 o'clock. QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, 24th May, 1881. npHE CITY RIFLE BAND WILL OIVE A SELECT BALL In the Arcade, on the above date. DR. J. SIMMS, the unrivalled PHYSIOGNOMIST and POPULAR SPEAKER, will Lecture on Practical and Scientific Physiognomy, at the Athonsaum Hall THIS EVENING, at 8 o'clook. Admission — First Seats, 2s ; Second Seats, Ib. Course Ticket to first seat, 10s ; second seat, ss. The Hall is open daily Free to all visitors from 9 a m. to 5 p.m., that the vast collection of portraits in oil may be seen. Physiognomical Charts. — Daily during the Lecture Course Dr. Simms will be in waiting at the comfortable private anteroom of the Lecture Hall, in order to supply the public with his large Physiognomical Charts, of 240 pp., accurately marked to indicate the mental and moral traits of applicants, their state of health, the occupations for which nature has adapted them, and the character of person they should choose for a life companion. Thousands of men and women in Great Britain and America are today reaping the benefits of a consultation with Dr. Simms. To follow his professional advice, communicated orally, and by] means of his charts, is to pursue the paths of virtue, happiness, and worldly success. "^yELLINGTON ATHENAEUM LOCAL EXHIBITION. In connection with the Art Department of the above Exhibition, to be held in May next, the following Prizes have been offered, viz. — For the best original drawing in black and white, by persons of either sex under the age of 20, Mr. J. R. Blair offers as First Prize : A Handaome Photograph Album; value, £6 6s. Second Prize : 1 vol. of the Art Journal (bound); value, £2 2s. Third Prize •. 1 do Illustrations by Dore^ value, £1 Is. Subiect may be landscape, oilh&alB, or figures, at the option of the competitor^" Also, for the best mechanical drawing — First Prize : 1 vol. "The Mechanician," by Cameron Knight, pnblishedbyßohn, London. Mr. Chas. D. Barrand offers for competition by amateur artists, 1 Winsor and Newton's Color Box ; value, £3 3s, For the best original water color landscape drawing of New Zealand scenery ; size, not less than 14 x 10. Applications for space in this department oan be obtained at the Athenaeum, and should be sent in to Mr. Noel Barraud. Perßons having works of art, which they would be willing to lend for exhibition, are requested to commnnicate with Secretary. H. F. LOGAN, Hon. Sec. THE COLONIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. FIRE AND MARINE. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE Third Ordinary Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at 3 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, 18th May, 1881, m the Chamber of Commerce, Lambton Quay, Wellington. Business : To receive and adopt Balanoe-Bheet and Directors' Report To elect two Directors, that number retiring in accordance with Articles of Association, who, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election To elect two Auditors, and fix the amount of their remuneration To declare a dividend. By order. GEO. S. GRAHAM, General Manager. The Transfer Books of the Company are closed, and will remain so until after the above meeting. AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. Established 1849. THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. NOTICE is hereby given that the THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING of the members of this Society will be held in the Head Offices, Pitt-street, Sydney, at 2 o'olook in the afternoon of WEDNESDAY, the 27th day of April, 1881, for the purpose of : — 1. Receiving the Report of the Directors on the business of the Society for the year ended 31st December, 1880 2. Electing two Directors in lieu of the Hon John Smith, C.M.G , M.L.C., and Robert Saddington, Esq., who retire in terms of By-law V., and one of whom only is eligible for reeleotion. 3. Electing an Auditor in lien of James Duff Milne, i.sq., who retires, and (in terms of By-law X.) is ineligible for re-eleotion. The Hon. JOHN SMITH, C.M.G , M.L.C., AND GEORGE ALEXANDER MURRAY, Esq., are the only candidates who offer themselves for the seat* to become vacant at the Board of Directors. By order of the Board. ALEXANDER J. RALSTON, Secretary