THE MOSTYN-DALZEIL COMPANY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10663, 25 May 1895, Page 5

THE MOSTYN-DALZEIL COMPANY.

On Monday this company will open a season of six night* at‘the Theatre I’oyal, Th® story of Bansopi, the piece selected for the opening night, deals with incidents which.'occurred in the early bushranglng days of Haw .South Wales. ' Philip Marlett, who constitutes the vilain of ilia piece, is a wealthy squatter, owning Wamby Sun, near Bathurst. One of his tenants is Harold Graham, the hero, who married the woman Marletfc had intended to make His wife. While Graham is away from his home Mariett calls at the cottage, ■ taunts Mrs' Graham with having married a beggar, and .proposes that she should elope with him, and live in affluence. Sh« indignantly resents his insults, and he threatens to have His 'reverge. Two bqehrangars who have stolen into tha cottage With the object of informing Mrs Graham I of . her husband’s capture by their band, overhear the conversation, and on! the squatter’s departure! they demand .£3OO as Graham's ransom. To save her husband’s life hhe asks Karlett to give her the money, sad he agrees to do so on condition' that' she will go to''England with him. She appears to consent, obtains the' money, and gallops into the bushrangers’ camp with the ransom just as Graham is on the point of being .shot, I The meeting of Msrlett and Mrs Graham | ia then averted by the foresight and wit of j their- boy, Tom Gfaivey, who discovers tha | plot, and impersonates his mistress till the (arrival of Graham himself, who has I followed ia pursuit, inspecting his wife of unfaithfulness. - la tha nest act the squatter is murdered by Mick Eydcr, one of the buahranging gang. Graham is accused of the murder, mid .sentenced to imprisonment , for life. ■ Subsequently Eyder is captured, and being badiy wounded and dying, confesses, and every--tfiihg -is thereafter happily settled. In addition to the sensational element, a groat deal of comedy ia introduced, the whole providing an, enjoyable evening’s entertainment.