BURNS' ANNIVERSARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8784, 26 January 1892, Page 5

BURNS' ANNIVERSARY.

The Burns Club celebrated the anniversary of Burns, the national poet of Scotland, last evening by a concert and ball. Mr. Alex. Murchie presided. The following concert programme was gone through with acceptance—Overture, Miss Adams ami Piper Fotheringham ; "There was a Lad," Mr. Lankham; "Ye Banks and Braes," Miss Woolley ; " Afton Water," Mr. Carter ; recitation, "To Mary in Heaven," Mrs. Murchie; "A Highland Lad," Miss J. Moncur ; 41 0, This is My Ain Lassie," Mr. Lyle (encored), when he gave " The Star of Glengarry " Coining Through the Rye," Mrs. Wright (encored), when she gave " Within a Mile o* ICdinboro' Toon ," Highland fling, Master McCaffrey; " Scots Wha Hae," Mr. Lankhain ; " Last May a Braw Wooer," Mrs. Murchie; "Corn Riggs," Mr. Carter ; " Braw, Braw Lads," Miss Moncur; " Huntingtower," Mrs. Wright and Mr. Carter ; " A Man's a Man For a' That," Mr, Lankham; bagpipe selection, Pipor Fotheringham; " Aukl Lang Syne." The floor was then cleared for dancing. Messrs. Reid and Davidson and Piper Fotheringham supplied the dance music. Mr. Alex. Murchie officiated as M.C. About thirty couples footed it on the floor, a programme of fifteen dances being gone through. At an interval the haggis was brought forth with great ceremony, cut up, and" portions handed round to the guests. After supper dancing was resumed, and kept up with spirit till an early hour this morning. [by TELEGRAPH.—own correspondent.] Thames, Monday. The anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns was to-night celebrated by the local Burns Club in the shapo of a concert, supper, and dance, which, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, was largely attended. Captain Farquhar, president of the Club, presided, and in the course of an interesting address referred to the universality and breadth of the genius of Burns, his enlightened opinions, and his warm human sympathies. Altogether the occasion passed off most enjoyably.