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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1110, 17 December 1869, Page 2

Mails.— lt wiirbeseejrfrom pbst'-bffice noficc that a mail for Auckland closes at Nelson this day. " By means bF 'the telegraph this opportunity will be available to nay one wishing to write on urgent "business. The outgoing English mail will olose on'Snturdfiy by the Wellington, as it is intended to f6r ward it on the 23rd : inst, by the steamship Tarurua. . :.J Napier G aubick .CLpß^-rTjie jhall, last evening, was tolerably well filled) al least in front., : T,hß baqk,s.eats,Mgere:lmt ; thinly occupied, attributable^ no. doubt, to the fact that the.dramatis personte aro inarticulate at that distance, ;and) the, dialogue, in consequence, lost, ;or but; partially, gathered. , "The comedy of " Used Up"* wris well put on the stage, and the various parts were creditably sustained. If Kemp scarcely conveyed one's preconceived idea of Sir (Charles Coldstream, it DQUsfc b(? remembered. »^hat he played .under the great disadvantage of having so distinguished ft ; prototype as Charles Mathews, with whose inimitable persbnntion of the character many present were familiar. 3wan,as, John Ironbrace was 'capital, and the "Misses Williams acquitted themsehes admirably, ;bo;th i looking and speaking the respective chjar.acters allotted to them. The bnly ; fault was that the speeches could ' only his heard by those immediately in' fl?onty' and.that those less favored had tlie haziest ,j4ea "imaginable of tbe plot, The stage and scenery looked Tvell, • add; we have to congratulate the. Club upon the great success o,f their first effort of ,the . season. The second piece, 1 the '"6ride v 6f Abydos," was of a different character, btit'.'Was very successful, the new scenery and arrangements 'generally shewing' { 'tb\;mueh advantage. Wan t ;of time,; however, prevents our .going into details. ..It, wjUl ftp seen by advertisement that the performance will be repeated dri MdnQa'y nexti -I /; ( ! [ |■;