DUNEDIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11195, 18 August 1898, Page 6

DUNEDIN

The monthly meeting of-the Dunedin Burns I Club was held in, the. Choral. Hall last night. Mi-' James Gibson presided, and there a large • attendance, the hall being crowded m every part. The club's piper, Mr Hume, opened Pthe proceedings by contributing * section on the pipes. Mr E Eagar "»W^f sang "Fairest maid on Devon's banks and boing' -vociferously encored, fa™ure £ " jjy audience with a tasteful .rendering ot. My Mr Russell Kenriard's rendering of-Ipcot^ yet" was greatly appreciated • *&»■ f™_ clonald and Miss Jessie Allen both §aJ| ieo* G oorge Wilson made his first aPPe^ n<L e vp ": public as a ventriloquist, and createdl gieat by to clever^exli^ion During eV^e nn^ Mn^ldrSsM^^n apology for not doing so, and excused himself by^ saying that he found his own ideas with f regard . «> Burns sowell expressed in a.recent ™*™*t he preferred to give a reading from that work rather than say anything original himself. He then gave a reading, which appeared to be much appreciated. Mr K. Francis acted as choir conductor during the eyojimg, and xAiss E. Wright was the accompamste. Alter _ tiie concert a number remained. to, participate in the onjoyment of a" dance,1 the music for which wrs supplied ~by piper Hume and Mr G. K. West.