ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 62, 11 September 1905, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

♦ THE WATKIN3 MILLS CONCERTS. Concerning ihe Watkin Mills English Concert Party, which opened its season in Dunedin last Thursday, the Otago Daily Times speaks in warm terms of praise. That journal says : "The concert went splendidly from start to finish, and the appreciation of those present (a very large audience) was most enthusiastic, indicating that they thoroughly recognised that they were listening to what is probablj the finest quartet party that has visited this city." The party is to -appear' in Wellington in conjunction with the Musical Union on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd inst. In connection with the coming of Mr Watkin Mills, the members of the Union are notified that there will be no practice this evening. A full practice of chorus and orchestra is to be held in the Syd-ney-street Schoolroom to-morrow evening. 'The benefit concert arranged with the object of providing funds to further the musical education of Miss Lillian Irvine, a student of St. MaTys Convent, will be held in the concert hall of the Town Hall next Monday ovening. An excellent programme is being prepared for the occasion. The second annual social gathering of the Zealandia Rifles -will be held on Wednesday evening at the AtS. Gallery, Wiritmore-6treet. The final of Misa Borlase's assemblies for the .season will be held next Wednesday evening. The Century Quadrille-Assembly terminated the season with a plain and fancy dress ball last Friday evening in the New Century Hall. Over s'xty couples -were present.. Vocal and instrumental items were given by Misses Fauvel, Wilson, and Messrs. Phillips and Worger. Music was supplied by Platt's Band, and the catering by Mrs. 0. Johnson. A Nelron correspondent telegraphs that Meesre. Taylor, Fisher, and Laurenson held a very successful meeting in that city at noon to-day. There was a large attendance. The New Liberals hold another meeting this afternoon, and leave for Wellington at 6 p.m. A young man named Rjr-hard Carroll, defended by Mr. Herdman, was to-day sentenced by Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., to one month's imprisonment on a charge of having assaulted a native woman numed Mrs. Heu Heu. Evidence for the prosecution showed that the complainant and three other respectable native Women were in the feitting-room of the Oriental Hotel last Thursday evening, when defendant entered, and acted rudely towards one of them The complainant remonstrated with him, and thereupon he struck her a blow on the face ■with his fist. The defence was thut defendant was joking, and that the complainant took a poker to him, whereupon he pushed her away, and gave her a smack on the face with his open hand. Mr. Herdman asked the Magistrate to give the defendant the option of a fine. His Worship, in reply, said it was an assault on a woman, and when he considered the facts of the case, he did not feel justified in letting the defendant off with a fine. Dr. Riicsell, M.D., of Chri3tchurch, delivered a. lecture on Saturday night in the Sydney-street Primitive Methodist Schoolroom on I'he " Dignity of Labour." In the course- of his /marks he said thsro could do no health without physical food, and it was heaven's law that wholesome food should be obtained by labour. It was because .thousands ate and did no labour, and millions laboured and were not allowed th^ full uae of the produce of their industry, that there was fo much poverty in the world. He besought his audience to beware of indolence, for it stole away from man the energy and disposition to battle for h« rights, and practically made a parasite of lljm. On Sunday ajtornoon. Dr. nusscu lectured on " Infancy, ChikThocd, Youth, Maturity, and Old Age," and la«t evening he delivered a stirring address on " Temperance, from a Medical Man's Point of View." At the Magistrate's Court this afternoon, Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., granted a separation order against Robert John Malcolm, with 10s a week for maintenance and £2 11« costs. Petitioner was rer/reeented by Mr. Herdman.