ENTERTAINMENTS AND MEETINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12268, 12 May 1903, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS AND MEETINGS.

OPERA HOUSE.

This evening Mr. Win. Anderson's Dramatic Company will commence a season of five nights at the Opera House, presenting for tho first time in Auckland George England and Milton Bode's success, " The iff lit Birds of London." This play is said to give full scope for a series of beautiful stage pictures and skilful mechanism. The curtain falls on a sensational scene, the great gas explosion, first showing the interior of a building, then the building in flames, the arrival of the fire brigade, and the place left in ruins. The " Night Birds of London" will be staged for four nights only, and on Saturday evening next Frank Harvey's emotional play, "The World Against Her," will be presonted. METHODIST CITY MISSION. A special meeting in connection with the newly-established Methodist City Mission was held in the Foresters' Hall, Karangahape Road, last evening. The Rev. C. H. Garland presided, and there was a good attendance. Mr. J. Wilson (superintendent of the mission) gave a lecture, in which he narrated some interesting incidents that had occurred in his experiences as a preacher in New Zealand and Victoria. At tho conclusion of tho address Mi-. Wilson was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. A number of solos wore rendered at intervals during the meeting.