FIFTY YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD. CONDEMNATION OF THEATRE. The following are extracts from tna New Zealand Herat.d of April 20, 1882: The Auckland Theatre Royal is condemned by a recent visitor, who state*. " Green room or robing apartments the'B are none, if we except {hose impvovi.-r by the hanging up of a piece of, c '° ' which separates the sexes. Tins ' is underneath the stage and is an i» lighted, flea-abounding and rat-no hole." f Surprise is expressed in London * Mr. Parnell who has been a pronnnenfigure in the Irish difficulty, and who. sjn-e liberation on parole, has been visi . Paris, did not surrender yesterday required by the authorities. A rcpor ■ < been current that an attempt was *n on his life, but it is fairly certain he is remaining near Paris. The block of land fronting CoHego Road, extending from the sea beac the Convent Grounds, and which recently brought on the market, is , rapidly built on. It is greatly tfrom the waste of fern which f° r existed, and the series of wretched patched with packing cases and jeer tins which once adorned the golly*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21162, 20 April 1932, Page 6
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187FIFTY YEARS AGO. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21162, 20 April 1932, Page 6
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