MISS BESSIE DOYLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9491, 21 April 1894, Page 5

MISS BESSIE DOYLE.

Miss Bessib Doyijj returned to Auckland yesterday, after a triumphal progress through the Waikato. During tho sixteen days she has been absent from Auckland, Miss Doyle has given no less than thirteen performances, almost every town in the route being re-visited, in compliance with special demand. Miss Doyle, who is an accomplished equestrienne, did the greater part of the trip on horseback, and she is enthusiastic in praise of tho climate and the hearty hospitality and genu ine musical ardour of tho people. It becamo quite a common thing to see numbers of ladies and gentlemen who had ridden in twenty and thirty miles for the performance. Tho farewell of the young virtuoso at the City Hall on Monday evening next, when His Excellency the Governor, the Mayor, and many leading citizens will signalise the occasion by their presence, bids fair to bo a great occasion, and a great demand for seats lias already set in. An eminently popular programme of classic, English, Irish, and Scotch music has been prepared. Particulars as to seating, etc., appear in our advertising columns. " A noble act," writes a Hamilton correspondent, "was that which the graceful and gifted young lady, Miss Bessie Doyle, performed in the interest of the sufferers in the Hospital. ' Passing through Hamilton, en route to fulfil her evening engagement in Te Awamutu, Miss Doylo learned from Dr. Kenny that many of the patients had expressed keen regret at having been unable to* hear her rare performance upon tho violin, Upon hearing this Miss Doyle, who had just ridden from Ngaruav/ahia, hurriedly changed her riding habit, dispensed with her dinner, and, taking her violin, drove to the hospital and devoted the only hour she had in the town to a performance in the ward by the bedsides of the sufferers. Perhaps none bub those who were present could realise how touching it all was, for there were tears in many eyos, and sweet indeed must have been the gratitude that would not bo concealed. In - . Kenny thanked Miss Doyle oil behalf of the patients in feeling terms, and then the fair young artiste, who is all vitality and heart, dashed off to her professional work in the next town."