PROFESSOR HASELMAYER'S ENTERTAINMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6097, 2 June 1881, Page 5

PROFESSOR HASELMAYER'S ENTERTAINMENT.

Last evening Professor Haselmayer's entertainment at tlieLorne-street Hall was largely attended. Among the newillusions performed by the Professor was the handkerchief and watcli trick. A watch was procured from a lady, also a handkerchief from another lady, and both marked for identification. The watch was wrapped in the. handkerchief, and both in paper, and one of the ladies requested to hold the packet in her hand. The Professor affected to fire at the packet, but the lady appearing nervous, he jokingly said, "Yoii cannot hold your hand steady ; open the packet, and give me the watch and the handkerchief." On her opening her hand, there was nothing in it, to her surprise, but aa apple, which the Professor thanked her for, and said he would eat it for refreshment in the interval. The Professor still urged the lady to give him the watch and handkerchief which had so suddenly disappeared, but she could not find it, and did not know where it was. He then said, "If you do not return it, I will make it strike in your pocket." To her astonishment, it did so, although she could not find the watch on her person. She persisted in stating she had not got it, when the Professor made it strike again, the sound this time coming from a box on the platform, the lid of which opened at the request of one of the audience, of its own accord, and after a gentleman present had taken out a nest of 18 boxes, the watch and handkerchief were found at the bottom of the last box. The Professor astonished his audience last evening by the easy manner in which he manufactured coffee and milk out of paper shavings—the former from black paper and the latter from white. He then said he must sweeten it; so he took some potatoes, and in a very short time transmogrified the tubers into sugar. The coffee was handed round to the ladies, who, on partaking of it, pronounced the beverage as excellent. On Monday night, the Professor will appear in Onehunga at the Masonic Hall, and on Tuesday at the Devonport Hall, North Shore.