Ferryside, Day's Bay.

Free Lance, Volume VI, Issue 300, 31 March 1906, Page 17

Ferryside, Day's Bay.

You cannot affoid to forget that Wednesday, 4th April, is the day of Messrs. Maodonald, Wilson and Co.'s auction sale of fifty-two sections of land at Ferryside, Day's Bay. Time, 7.c0 in the evening; place, Exchange Land Mart, 84, Lambton Quay; chances, rosy. These sections, are extra special goods, and it is worth your while to go acioaiv to the Bay and judge for yourself. The land l is. flat — that is, a very gentle gradual slope. It is the pick of Day's Bay — and the Bay is the pick of the suburbs from the scenic point of view. The far-famed Day's Bay bush is there at the potential back door, and flanks the gai den-fence to be. Sunny, but sheltered from the wind, and commanding a. seascape that has few equals in New Zealand, close to tne ferry, which runs six t.mes a-day, undeniably healthy, picturesque, and desirable, the^e sections command the attention of home-seekere. Terms, set forth elsewhere, are very easy.

Frank Clark, who used to do some good "turns" here m the old Dix day&, is, running a 'Folly Company" at Melbourne Gaiety. • • • Reported that Oily Deering has lost his memory and that, consequent !y, he has lost his billet with the TitteilBrune Company. • • * Man in Opera House to* woman m front: "Madame, I paid 3s for this seat, and your hat " Woman (calmly) : "That hat co=»t £3." • • * Pinero has written a play, '"The House in Older," that smel s sweet. Said to bePinero's best to date. Lntics and people praise it. » • • Herr Slapoffsk' the musical husband of "Madame Slap" of law-case, fame, is the conductor for George Musgroves Nellie Stewart Company, in America. • * * The "Bristol" (from, which New York to Boston steamer "Fun on the Bristol gets its title) has just been bumped out or the fun trade. She is now a humble coal-hulk. # . Martini's buck-jumping show in Sydney is so popular, and the management so keen to get hoises that can buck, that they pay th- fare of genuine buoking horses to Sydney. • • * Little Peter Savieri is a man of many parts, as may remember, but tis Lid he refused a three-character part in one company, on the ground! that .two of him had to fight, and himself had to separate them. The "Private Secretary' has _ been played in England 10,000 times is still beinfi played, and is still likely to be p?ayfd P It has earned more money than any comedy ever played, and remained popular longer. • * * The Julius Knight Company introduced a snake into New Zealand apparently. Anyhow, a dead Austialian snake was found behind the scenes at Palmerston North Opera House, and it is surmised it came with the J. K. baggage. . , . A New York chorus girl named Elizabeth Bnoe has made a meteoric proeras to the position of leading lady in the record time of four weeks. Miss Brice was originally a stenographer in the office of a Toledo newspaper, ro&e to assist jh dramatic work, and nnaJly went on the stage herself. She is now playing Lady Teazle in a leading New York theatre, succeeding the c known American prima donna, Lilian Russell. Dante, the conjurer, in a- breezy letter to a Wellington "emperor of magic, explains that he has been travelling through the Malay States. The Chinese thereabouts rolled up pretty well until they found he was an. American. Then they boycotted him. In matters of this kind the Chinese move like one man. Offend one, and you make enemies of the lot. Says Dante : "You ye guessed] already that I am not making any special mentiom of the fact that I'm American. I forget to put it on the bills every time!" • * * Fuji-Ko San, a real Geisha girl, has been engaged for the London production of 'The White Chrysanthemum.' The little brown girl is given a great reception nightly, but it appears to be complimentary more than in recognition of her ability. Realism on the stage has its limits. Some years ago a Melbourne manager, realising that his supers m a Chinese farce didn't look in the least like Chinamen, engaged half-a-dozen real Chinamen from Little Bourke-street. But the real Chinamen proved so dull and uninteresting after the first performance that the white supers were re-engaged before they had time to protest to the Trades Hall. • * • Earls Court, in London, will be, daring the summer of 1906, the rendezvous of all tourists from the British colonies who visit Londion but will not have time to go to the Continent. Why ? Because they will see there and will be able to visit all the places of amusement with which one generally associates the Continent, and especially Vienna, for they will be able to see this y ear — in connection with the Austrian Industrial Exhibition, at Earls Courts Austrian restaurants, Viennese coffeehouses, Drebers' beer gardens, theatres with productions by Austrian artists, cafe chanta.nte, Viennese vairietfes, etc., etc. A Tyrolese village, after the style of the Swiss village at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1900, will form one of the special attractions of the Exhibition, and the famous Viennese Male Choral Society, the best of its kind on the Continent, and the Viennese Philharmonic Society, will furnish a series of concerte. The Exhibition opens in May next.

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