THE BIOGRAPH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 7052, 13 October 1900, Page 2

THE BIOGRAPH.

At the Opera House, on Wednesday and Thursday next, with a matinee performance on Thursday afternoon, an exhibition of pictures taken by the well-known British Biograph Company will be seen for the first time in Hawera. When the war first broke out, the company obtained permission from the War Office to send a representative with General Buller to the Cape, and on to the front with the troops. The pictures so tak«n have proved uch an attraction at the Palace Theatre, London, that intending visitors have been compelled to book their seats weeks in advance. Messrs Wylde and Freedman, having become proprietors of the Australian rights of the whole series, will present their first selection to a Hawera audience with the same clearness and completeness as made the entertainment such a triumph in London. Each picture is 26 feet square, and there are about 40 in the opening collection, and films of which roll out to nearly seven miles. As samples of the subjects dealt with may be mentioned: — Lord Dundonald's cavalry going into action near Spion Kop ; six brigades striking tents to advance on Spion Kop ; Indian bearers and ambulance bearers bringing in the wounded after the battle at Spion Kop ; 12 pounder and 4.7 lyddite guns from H.M.S. Terrible bombarding Colenso, also showing Captain Percy Scott's ingenious gun carriage ; Frere and Chic veley camps; Frere bridge being rebuilt by the Royal Engineers after destruction by the Boers ; the New South Wales Lancers landing at Capetown ; and many others equally interesting from tho front. An interesting picture will also be presented of the Albatross, the fastest torpedo boat destroyer in the world, steaming 32 knots in her trial trip over the measured mile. The box plan is now open at Nimmo Scott's.