STUDENTS' CARNIVAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 113, 14 May 1914, Page 8

STUDENTS' CARNIVAL

The performance to be given at th« Town Hall on Friday night, 22nd May, by tlie students of Victoria University College in honour of the graduates, promises this year to be of unusual interest. "Boadkea," & play written for the occasion by one of the students, will be produced for th© first time before a New Zealand audience. A cast of ten characters will sustain the chief roles, and will be supported by a chorus of 75 voices and an orchestra of twenty instruments, under the baton of Dr. Kington Fyffe. The scenery, too, has been specially painted ,iot the occasion. The play itself deals with the early advent in Britain of Julius Caesar and his legions, and their early troubles with Boadicea, Queen" of the Britons. Incidental to the play will be tlie appeftrance of a Miss Maud Allan ' and i the Cherniupski Trio. Special songs and lyrics have also been written for the play, and the ( song to the tune of the Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffman," sung by the Salamanca Male Quartet in the second act, should not be without effect on the audience. The box plans for the performance open at the Dresden on th« morning of Friday, 16th May.

In connection with th© dietniss&l of ft a carpenter from a building contract m Old Customs'fitreet, tlie _ workman concerned denies that he is an unsatisfactory worker, as alleged by tho foreman of the job. He states that, prior to working on tho wharves, he worked under the foreman on .the Hospital contract, and went right through with it, being paid off with the other men. He further states that he worked on the Blip contract with him from start to finish, and there wero no complaint* as to his Workmanship. Never before, he says, haa ho been dismissed because his tradesmanship was" not considered satisfactory, and it could not have been for this 1-oa-son that ho was dismissed ou Tuesday. The camp for those Territorials who have not completed their training will be commenced at Takapau , to-morrow, and will be spread over ten days, the men returning to their homes on Saturday week. Altogether about 800 Wen will participate. The Wellington' men, estimated at about 100, will leave Thorndon Station to-morrow morning. The Right Hon. W. F. Massey has consented to deliver an address in Dunedin on the occasion of his visit to the Winter Show—probably on the 29th (telegraphs ouv Dunedin correspondent). Speaking at a meeting of the Sport* Protection League at Gore, say» th& Mataura Ensign, the organise* (Mr. It. W. Shalicraes) drew attention to the Daylight Saving Bill. The peopb in. tho North generally wished to wo th« Bill pushed ahead, but the South with its long summer evenings would derive oven greater benefit. He did not know yet if the league had definitely- decided if it would support this measure, but ho thought it would do so. There lias been a slight alteration In the running of the Anchor boats. The Wavorley is now due to-morrow from Foxtotn atid Will Bi\H the sumo day for Nelsoh and the Coast. The Kennedy is not duo from Tarnkohe until Saturday, and has been uxed to sail that day for the Coast direct. The Kckulus is due on Sunday from Gisbornc to load for Neleoti and the Co«Bt.