MISS MURCUTT'S LECTURES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 June 1907, Page 2

MISS MURCUTT'S LECTURES.

To-morrow evening at tlie School of .Ul'Sic, Miss Ada L. A. Murcutt, who «j>j travelled four times round the S'oue, and who claims to be the only lintish woman who has over visited Mghalieu (•• Island of the Lost"), will deliver a lecture on "Japan and the Japanese." Misa Murcutt is a Fellow (.1 til? Jioyal Scottish Geographical Society. She intends to give a course of lectures throughout this colony. Miss Murcutt did most of hey travelling as Uie representative of a literary syndicate and other organisations, so that she had opportunities and privileges which are denied to ordinary travellers, bpeakng of her lectures, an English newspaper says :— "As a platform speaker Miss Murcutt has few equals. FearIs/s in speech, strong in conviction, and gifted with extraordinary dramatc ability, there is little wonder that wherever she goes vast audences throw; to hear her, but while it is so, it jg her own winning and loving personality and her abundant human sympathy that charm the individual heart." On Friday evening Miss Murcutt will lecture on "America, as I saw it." (By Telegraph— From a Correspondent). ... . WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Miss A. L. A. Murcutt, F.B.G.S. hall, the lecture being the second of a t> vi? °TTree. ree lectur es arranged by the Public Library Committee. A Wellington paper says of the lecture.— "Miss Murcutt is to be congratulated upon the success which she achieved. The large concert room was filled in every part with ladies and gentlemen who evidently took the deepest interest in every word that was uttered. The subject of Miss Murcutt's address was "Japan and the Japanese." and she deait with it as one who from long associations with the people, and intimate knowledge of their method of thought nnd of their views of social, moral, and religious, alone could. Miss Murcutt is one of the most interesting lecturers who has been heard in Wellington for a long time. Speaking without notes, but with an evidently vivid recollecton of all the scenes and matters which she has to tell of, she gives her story plainly, artlessly, but convincingly. At the conclusion of her address she was accorded a cordial vote of thanks on the motion of Mr Geo. Fowlds, Minister for Education. Mr F. M. Fisher M.W.R., occupied the chair." '