ENTERTAINMENTS AND MEETINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11873, 27 January 1902, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS AND MEETINGS.

HAWTREY COMEDY COJIPANY. | The Hawtrey Comedy Company's third pro- I duotion of "A Message from. Mors" onSatur- ' J! day night .was witnessed by a largo audience.: '. I The novel piece met with tho heartiest ap- /■ preciation, applause and laughter being fre- ->v quent throughout its presentation. It. will V be repeated to-night. The management, ah-'-, nounco that the season will terminate on Monday night next. . ; L DIX'S GAIETY COMPANY. There was a good attendance at the City Hall on Saturday night, when Mr. Dix's Company presented the usual. weekly - change ;i|p of programme. Madame Dante's pretty, illusionary dance, with limelight effects,,: was heartily applauded. Messrs. Pope and Sayles . created much amusement in their budget :of comicalities. The singing of. the popular V:; tenor, Mr. Wallace King, was a feature of;'v; 1 the entertainment, resulting in -prolonged' : applause. Miss Olive Lenton,' tho dainty.'.: serio, introduced new items and made a hit. The Coleman Sisters, in their acrobatic.V;;. ■ dance,- created quite a furore. •••- • Miss Ida Clarkson, in Scotch ballads, and the remain- \ ing members of . the company added attractiveness to the programme, ;■.*■" To-morrow,, * night Sivroni and Salvini, English sketch artistes, will appear for the first time, and on ,f Wednesday night Mr. Lan Lomont and his performing dogs reappear. * v

GRAPHIC ENTERTAINMENT. _ Mr. Hubert," " The :Daisy; Man," had « large attendance at his "free kenographic"entertainment in the Foresters' Hall, _ New-' ton, in connection with the - disposal "of his /',■ patent American knitting-machines and other j^S novelties. :• An excellent programme (• was submitted.. The pictures exhibited )on the ; 7 'XS scrcen by the aid of Mr. Edison's latest ma- . chine, the kenograph, were decidedly clear, and altogether extremely good. They in- ;" : i eluded principally scenes and incidents from '' the Boer war, and many of which indicated -V; members of the New .Zealand contingents' : , participating. ; • Several miscellaneous - pic- >%£! tures were also shown, and, like the others, they were received with much applause.* At intervals'selection were given on the the'atro-; phone, and were much - appreciated. To- > g night the entertainment is to be repeated. ■ THEOSOPHY. • Yesterday evening, in - the " Theosopliical x ; Society's hall, Mr. S. Stuart: lectured to a full audience on "Human Evolution." Mr. Stuart dealt with this subject oil"; 'scientific) vfei lines. ■By following - the two; great, laws',of £$0 correspondence and analogy, he said, the conelusion must be ; that the • first concept iof awakening consciousness must in every mani- ' ifestation bo spherical, from worlds' to atoms.; The first race -of humanity before the -human' form was defined as we find' it to-day, he said,*, must also have been 'spherical. Ho then traced tho evolution of human consciousness, ;;;; through tho earliest . races, showing how the various senses .. wore developed, touching briefly upon the! further . development to bo : ; ;:s arrived at, in future races. , Discussion followed. A pianoforte solo (Schumann) was given before the lecture. j

At the meeting of the Auckland Discussion Society . last evening. Mr. Sandford opened the . discussion upon "What is capital is ib ' necessary ' for human advancement?" He • dealt with the question from his standpoint, in an able manner, pointing out that capital properly utilised would be productive of ' great usefulness to humanity,,:..: Next Sunday Mr. McKnight will open upon. the question, '"Have wo got a Democratic Government?" ..