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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1685, 15 June 1904, Page 71 (Supplement)

In the latest number of tbe "Fortnightly” that caustic writer, "John Oliver Hobbes,” haß an interesting contribution on the state of the British drama. She does not spare the leading actors of the day, and, referring to Mr Beerbohm Tree's new school of acting, she very pertinently asks, "But who are tha teachers? I have seen no list given of suggested instructors. If the eager amateurs are to be carefully drilled in all the old tricks, I see a hitter future awaiting them. Their powers of observation, so far from , being trained, will not be acknowledged.” A fierce little fire occured in-a paraffin oil store and stables at Sunderland early on Sunday morning, when four horses, a goat, and 40 pigeons were burned to death* '