ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 147, 22 June 1904, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

FULLIiU'S ENTRRTAIXERS. Tho numerous attractions at His Majesty* Theatre still continue to provideuniuuemcnt /t>r lovcra of vaudeville. The • progriimme ihh week taken right through is a titroiig one.

At the Petoac Oddfellow c' Hall last evening, befoio a modewte attendance, Mr. W. W. Collins kctm-cd on "What Ko-Hc-jni*- 1 Means." In lorcible terms Mr. Collins denounced wlwt he termed the flaying inconsistency o£ t4io loaders of tbe 'rohibitiou movonumfc—-tAwy. called it "noMcpn>c" nowadays—in their attiuide. to--wh-hU the "No hw,ji«', no liquor" cbu.se in tho Premier'M Licensing Brll last se^s•ion. IL> stated 'Hiutlaf \vm clearly demon.stnittd riot duly elsewhere, but in Km- Ze.Uiind, that tho currj'ing of noliceiuto under present conditions had been attended by grcivo evils of a menacing aiiit'diinetfrQhfi chitrftctt-r>*o our moral, • iocial. and polidol stability. Tho U-o ttirer w;is» not asked any questions* and . w«w. givcii a. ik'^tiy Vote- ofthalilaj. A ainiilar foniplinient. wns paid tho Mayor of Petono (Mr. O. London), who presided, OJid who'ivmarkod tlvit wh-U-ever might . be th'-ir vie.ws, they would ajgjree- that thft lecture wim one of the most interesstitig tljcy had 1 lizard iv l\;lone for iv vti-y conxiderablc time. "A tnewt enjoyable social giUhering was ht-ld ot SpilU-r'.s Hall l;u?t night by the aiemlxTS i>f Mil*. .T. W, Foltt-y'n HN^-mbly and irivtids, ftbuul jifty couples being pre»pjit. The rhief ihsDs of the evening tvt'i'tf n cake-walk danced by Proft-swor I'j'ilding. acsiwteJ by Mjr»* ftirdie J'oley, ;md a wing and cake-walk by Leali and Kily Folty. Duriiig the evening there •wei-o souye by Mr. and Miti. North wood, Slesetfi. J.i^OH mid Bryck-n, and Miss Alice Weavix; and Hi: Sluples do-uted an lrif-h jig. The M.C.'h were Mej^th. Jidwards and V). Cunningham, >f.r. 11. Bcoonef< inndo an efficient Heiretoiy. ami Mrf>. Fflley supplied the mu»ic.

• Two counln deputationw waited upon •flu; Actiiij; \linibter for public Woiks (Hon. •). M'Uowan) to-day. Doth were introduced by Mr. Remington, M.H.It. One th'iniLtitwo, which represented the Wangaehu Road Hoard* nsked for assistance in repairing the damage done by last month's Moods. U particularly ahktd that ibmething should be done in regaid to the Addenbiooke bridge. The Minister juomi.-ed to Jay ihe matter before Cabinot when the LjUjmiiUs, were being pnp.iu'd. He also promised to enquire into j templi'iiit that Ihe Wangaehu Road Jio.ir'l hint nut J.et leceived a sum of£soo 'promiifd for making Adamson',B PvUiiuui road two years aijo. ft was ex-plainr-t! that the Board had carried out the woik but the men whom it had employed had not yet been paid. The other deputation represented the settlers at Oliutu, LHiku, and Tofere, -in the Tnilmpe district. It protested against the removal of the rrtllw^y" Station from TJtiku to Torere, urged the formation of « ro.ul, and the con.itruclibn ot a bridgo to en.»i»le the settlers to avoid a rircdit-ou-s route in going between the dniiy factnry and the railway, mid also urged that a rtihvar siding was necessity at Totere. The SliniMtcr promised that careful 'ittcntion would be paid lo the lvnie■entattoiis of the doiuitatiou,.