ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1904, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

PADEREWSKI. * The programme for Pnderewski's first recital is announced in our advertising columns. It - includes Liszt's famous •BhapsocKo, No. 2, »and several Chopin nnmoer.i. Bach and Beethoven are also icpreisented. Apropos, it may be mentioned that Paderewshi tiiinks that Lesehetttaiki (who prepared him as a concert artwsfc) next to Liszt must be ranked aa the greatest trainer of pianists. The first recital on Monday m Wellington will tnko place in the presence of his JftoreeHency the ©overnor and party from Government House, and one of the largest audiences that has ever filled the Opera House. There was an excellent attendance at the Peton* V6lu&teer,;Fire .Brigade's concert in (he local Oddfellows' Hall last evening. Hems wore contributed to the programme by the Pet one Orchestra, Aliases Geary and BRtteraby, Masters Hartley and Shardfow, and Messrs. Wilford. Woller, Adams, Neumogan, Wright, Lockyer, and Simpson. A farce entitled "The Now Keeper" concluded the programme.* -The characters were takfln by Firemen . Jones, . Btake, . atfd-J Williams, Me»rs. A. L. Wright, H. Wright, and Wefler,and 'Master -Mason: Before tho performance there was a torchlight proceflnion, in which the Pctond Brass Bowl, the .oe».r Componjr's Brigade, and tho Volunteer Fire Brigade took part.

It is notified by tho Bank of Australasia that a half-yearly dividend "at tho raio of 12 por cent, •hwr-bwn docWcd, that £30,060 ho* boon transferred to Rosorvo fanri, £25,000 in reduction of bank pronvims, and £16,880 carried forward Tho onlcrrtral share register will bo closod from 25rd September* to 7th October, "Oakes's Shoo Stores" advertiso «omo moei»l lino* in tho Wantod columns of this issue. Mwsru.- Sidoy, Mooch and Co. have rooeived instructions from tho Publio 'lrusteo to boJI in th'oiir rooms, to-morrow, at 1.30, without reserve, tho whole of tho personal effects iv tho docoased catntos of Forlongar and Jacobson, which compriso jewellery, clothing, etc. They will also sell a largo lot of household furniture and effect*, also fanoy goods and sundries, without resorve. The s.s. Duchess will run special excursions to Day's Bay to-morrow morning and afternoon at tho usual hours. Full timotable appears in this issue. Mr. F. G. Bolton, barrister, solicitor, »nd patent agent, of Foathorston-Btroet, Wellington, and Jackson-ttroct, Potono, h-afl an announcement in this iemio. Mr. S. G. Rom. jowoller and engraver, 1f, t Wiilw-stroot, arawe attention to a few ■peoial lines on offer duripg his annual clearing «»!••