ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 40, 16 August 1905, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

:: — -^- CURTIS'S NOVELTY COMPANY. The Wellington season of Mr. M. B. Curtis's Novelty Company of American entertainers is to open at the Opera House on the 24th inst. Auckland press nojic«s decluro the company to be a btiong combination. The box plan for tlie season is to be opened at the Dresden next Monday. The Thelma annual ball was bold in the Druids' Hall last evening, and was a pionoimced success. Over seventy couples danced to excellent music supplied by Mr. P. C. Hanloy's String Band. The .hall .was tastefully decorated with fiagfi and coloured lights.

The Government's Harbour Board Bill will, says the Minister for iMarme, have to stand over till next session. . ■Miss Ba-ber, who has been on the nursing staff of the Wellington Hospital for about a year, died in that institution this morning, aged thirty-ono. The cause of doa.th was .scarlet fever. I Tho deceaoed lady, "who was of a bright ami amiable disposition, was a sister of Miss Baber, or Thorn-don, and was 'born in Chrißtchurch. Messrs. Thomson and Brown, actingsecretaries for Iho Now Liberal Party's meeting, report the gross takings at the meeting held in tho Town ilall on Monday evening at £73 19s. Tho e\ponses, iccludii-T hire of hall, advertising, etc., total £29 2s 6d, leave a n«t balance of £49 16s 6d. This amount has been equally divided between, tho Home for Aged Needy, Mother Aubsrt's Homo for Incurables, and the Prisoners' Aid Society, each receiving £16 12s 2d, A large collection o>f choice- French bronzes, vases, ' art docks, and other nrticles of vcrtu aro to be offered by public auction in Messrs. Levien, Sliallcrass and Co.'s rooms on Friday, at 11 a.m. Mr. D. Milligan, gentlemen's tailor, Kelbume-swenno, notifies tho arrival of new English goods. Mosers. Ritchie and Co. announco tho arrival of a shipment of Doullon and other English art flijwer-pots, which they aro now showing at tho Crystal Palace, Lamb-ton-quay. j Messrs. Sidcy, Meech and Co. draw attontion to their sale of silver plate which takes place at their rooms, Manners-street, on Friday next, commencing at llo'olock. The goods will ho on view all day tomorrow and evoning. Complete catalogues can bo had from the auctioneers. Judd'a (of* British Hustlo fame), 39, Manners-street, havo just opened up a big shipment of gold jewellery and novelties, which aro boing offered at special prices advertised elsewhere. Messrs. J. H. Bethune and Co. announco tho sale on "Wednesday, 23vd instant, at their auction, rooms, Featherßton-slrcet, of an aero section (No. 1019), Ac'.e!aicle-road, togothor with factory buildings, machinery, and tho completo stock bf a furniture factory. Tho property is being sold on account of Messrs. Brydgcs and Co., who aro giving up business. On the same dato Messrs. Buthuno and Co. will soil a section in Roxburgh-street, with tho aix-rooin-ed dwellinghoueo (No. 16) thereon. Messrs.. Macdonald, Wilson and Co. submit to awKon to-morrow, at 2 o'clock, at their Exchango Land Mart, a business building section situalo in the heart of the town of Feildmg, having frontages lo threo of the main streets. The block is staled to bo surrounded by tho lending business premises in tho town. Full details nppear in tho advertisement. The firm also insert an advertisement of tho talo by auction on tho 31st- instant Of a building 1 section situato Tliorndon-quay, having a frontage- of 30 feot -by a deptli of 100 feet. They also announce* a salo for "Friday next, at 2 o'clock, at their rooms, of nn invoice of American boots, Englißh china, perfumes, Japancso biTEs and c.'rapos, also paporhangings. Messrs. Ilarcoiirt and Co. direct; attention lo thoir forthcoming auction Bales On Tuesday, 22nd hist., at 11 a.m., at their rooms, Ihoy will submit a picco of land, 3£ acres, having frontages to Mnin Karori-road ardFrioiul-sl reel," clone to Urn Karori Po3t Offico, suitable for subdivision. At tho samo salo tho firm will mibmil a four-roomod and a fix-roomed dwelling, Nos. 5 and 7, Oxford-slrool, off TasmnnBtreot. On the 23rd inst., at 11 a.m., at 41 Murphy-strcot, tho residence of Mr. Edmund Allo, who is leaving for Europe, furniture* specially mado to order in Europe. ■ Catalogues now obtainable on application. Messrs. Thomson and Brown call attention to their auction salo to be held on Wednesday, 30th August, at half-past 2, at Dixs Theatre Royal, whon they will submit five building sections in Ghuznoo and Marion Blraots, liaving frontages of 30ft to 30ft 7in by a depth vat-ying from 70ft to 90ft. They will also offer, undnr instructions from tho mortgagee, a block of land in Mnrtimor-ereecent hoving nn area of 34 perches Mr. \V. Duncan (late O. Smith*) has commenced business as hnltcr and mcrcor in Mannors-Btreet, opposite Opera House. Duncan's Hnt Arcade, is Iho sign. Coalbrookdale coul, which is guaranteed by the company, is advertised in this itsut.

LATE SHIPPING. ARRIVALS. August 16— Sgjiu, ecow, 120 tons, Fletcher. KNTEREP OUTWARDS. August 16— Rotomahaiia. sa, 915 tons, Manning, fgor Tjyttelton. Passengers : Saloon— .Misses Armstrong, Hayes, Deumston, Martin, U'differy, Oorneliiw, Livcrsey, Maselbroofc, Mesdanies Rutherford, Scales, M'Lachlan, S*ndereon and child, Millß, Messrs. l'assmoro, Buckley, Reed, Rutherford, Frneer, Moore, Ross, SincUir, Wynne, Malan, Chmie; Glass, Skuir, ISooth, Holmes, Keiehnw, Andrews, Hall, Watt, Stiukey (2), Henshaw, Moor. The Union Company advise that the Kakanoa is expected to leave VTestpnrt for Wellington to-night. She has a full cargo of coal for this port. The steamer Kaituna, whinh has been undergoing alterations at Dimedin, was to leave jesterday for Greymouth, Tho Union Company has been advised that the steamer Aparima, bound from Calcutta to New Zealand, ariived at Singapore on Sunday, and sailed for Java and Auckland on Monday. The Essex, of the New ZeVland and African Line, in to leave Auckland on Fridny night or Saturday morning, and is doe here in time to work on Monday moining. On completing the discharge of 970 tons of cargo at tho Queen's Wharf the vessel i» to S° acroaj to the Glasgow Wharf to take m fro7on and general produce for South Africa and West of England ports, The local offloe of the Kew Zealand and African Company advise that the steamer Devon is to leave New York on the 30th August for Australia and Now Zealand ports. The vesaol is still under Mie command of Captain Brown. BY TEI^EQRAPH. OKEHUNGA, 16th August. Sailed— Rarawa, for New Plymouth. Passengers : Siloon— Misses Runciman, Wadswoith and Flower, Meddames Nixon, Skeatos, Rambay, Pcirit, Rutherford, Louisson and child, Wallis, Nicholson, M'Dowell, Nurse, Nicholson and child, Bishop Wallis, Dr. M'Gill, Mware. Nicholson, Bowdcn, Boucher, M'Dowell, Watt, Busohell, Miller, Redmond, Harvey, Donovan, Kdkins, Marsh, Skeates, Mirams, Kevin, Miller, NAPIER, 16th Auguit. Sailed— Haupiri (2.10 p.m.), for Wellington.