ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 142, 18 December 1905, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

THE CZERNY SEASON. The bos plan ilbr the Czerny season,, ■which commences at His Majesty's Theatre on Boxing Night, under the direction of Mr. William Anderson, will open ■ t Holliday's next Wednesday morning. Czerny's entertainment opens in a most dramatic manner, and in a setting of beautiful scenery and costumes of the romantic period, associated with weird music, appropriate to the surroundings. Immediately on Czerny's entrance ha. at •once gets to work in his own inimitable manner. Czerny has a commanding personality peculiarly his own, and has ?he happy faculty of getting on good terms with his audience from the commencement of his entertainment, and thenceforward, under the spell of his magic wand, time is said to pass most pleasantly. NAVY LEAGUE ENTERTAINMENT. Our readers are reminded of the Navy League entertainment to be held at the Town Hall thia evening. The front of the building has been specially decorated with flags for the occasion, the services, of several o9 the men-of-warsmen having been grafted for that purpose by Captain Woollcombe. After an overture by the Garrison Band, an excellent concert programme has been arranged for. Vocal quartet tea, duets and solo work by leading singers being interspersed with school children's choruses. During a short interval the guests of the evening will be formally welcomed by the Hon. A. Pitt, and Captain Woollcombe will jespond. The men from the warship who are to take part in the display, are to march up from the landing stage under command of Lieut. J. M. Arnand, who is to be in charge of the party. The display will include, physical drill by ordinary seamen, cutlass 'exercises by seamen gunners, and bayonet exercises (old style) by marines. Refreshments are to be provided for the visitors.

The Arcadia, the handsome private hotel at the corner of Stout-street and Lamb-ton-quay recently built by Mr. E. G. Peers, was formally opened to-day. A small gathering was entertained by Mr. J. Paiensoa, the lessee, at a pleasant luncheon. The seats of honour were occupied by Messrs. Peers and F. 08. Loughlan, and after the good things eatable had been partaken of, a toast-list was gone through. The. health was toasted of Messrs. Howie and Matthews (builders), Campbell Colquhoun (clerk of works), G. Remington and W. Emeny (sub-contrac-tors), Messrs. Ashman and Nudds (for the furnishers, Messijs. Strange and Co.), Mr. Peers, the Palmerston Syndicate which has acquired the Arcadia from Mr. Peers, Mr. anu Mrs. Patcrson, and the press. Replying to one of the toasts, Mr. Peers said he had built the Arcadia with a view to providing an up-to-date place where visitors to and residents of Wellington could stay, in preference to a place containing a bar. Mr. Paterson, who is well known as an experienced providore in the Union Steam Ship Company's service, said it was his intention to make the Arcadia exactly the kind of house that Mr. Peers had contemplated in erecting the building. A flag-hoisting ceremony afterwards took place on the turret, Mrs. Paterson christening the house-flag. This afternoon a large party of citizens was /entertained at afternoon tea by Mr. and Mrs. Paterson. Fine weather generally prevailed throughout the colony to-day. The shade temperatures in the four centres at 9 o'clock t*his morning were : At Auckland 66deg., Wellington 62deg., Christeburch 62deg., Dunedin 60deg. Mr. Absolum, postmaster at Waipawo, is to ze promoted to the charge of the Post ami Telegraph Office afc Port Ahuriri (the Spit), vice Mr. Wilkie, who has retired from the service. Mr. Oxley, senior check clerk at Bunedin > is to become postmaster afc Waipawa. About 300 people witnessed the explosion of 501b of guncotton in Shelly Bay by the Submarine Mining Corps on Saturday afternoon. The sight was a very fine one. A column of water 150 ft high shut up and the sea was strewn with seaweed and dead fish. During the afternoon a cßtter race was rowed between the right half and left half sections, and was won by the latter, under Lieut. K. Price. Messrs. Macdonald, Wilson and Co. announce that the salo 0f. 600 volumes of new books .will take place on Wednesday, at 10.30 a.m., instead of Tuesday, as previously advertised. The nale of 20 handsomely fnuned mirrora will bo held tomorrow. Tho firm also announce a salo pf household furniture at No. 22, Webbstreet, on Thursday next, at 1 o'clock, on account of Mr*. H. F, Smith, who. is leaving Wellington.