FREDERIC VILLIERS.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 51, 28 August 1895, Page 3

FREDERIC VILLIERS.

Mr. Hugo Fiaoher, who haa the' manage- ' mentof the' New Zealand tour of the famous war artist and correspondent on behalf ot Mr. E. S. Smythe, arrived here this morajng ooompleta arrangement, for a ahort aeries >£ lectures to be given' in the Opera House ift Tuesday" eyemng next, 3rd September, tie two following nights. Tho snbjeot or the opening night will be " War on a White Sheet." Mr. vaiiers, who repre. aented Black and White as its artist and the Standard a. its war correspondent, in the reoent war between China and Japan, was leaving Japan for England when Mr. Smythe cabled him to come first to Australia on' % leo'turing tour.' Mr. Villiera consented, and let out by the firat steamer for the Antipodes. The China-Japanese war- was the ninth oampaign in which Mr. VQliera haa been engaggQ. He had h'ia baptism by fire in the Igrvo-Tovkiah war in 1876, and after that be went through the Rosso-Turkish war, the Afghan campaign, was with Lord Charles Bereaford at the bombardment of Alexandria, and with Lord Wolseley at Tel-el-Kebir, and up the -Nile in the expediC6riß for the relief of Gordon. All the Villiera lectures are illustrated by limelight reproductions of the gifted artist's sketches and photographs, his snap-shots of the oapture of Port Arthur and the subsequent massacre being the only photographs taken of those thrilling soenea. In Dunedin', Ohriatbhurpli, ''and Auakland he leotnred before very Iprge and, delighted audiences. Amongst the travellers' samples that C. Smith, the Cash Draper, Cuba-street, ia telling at Glaagow prices for thia week only will be 'found seme very choioe - blouses, some very pretty mantles, and a lot of very useful jaoketa and 'golf and other oapea, beridps umbrellas, parasola; ladiea' aprons, pbildr^n's pinafores, oorseta, underolothing, ohildren'a grannie hata and bonnets, stocking., gloves, and a lot of other very ueeful lines, at Glasgow prices for thia week only .— Advt. ' - - ■ $or oonimuohonoj rtaamg.matUr tee fourth