MR WALTER MONTGOMERY.

Otago Witness, Issue 905, 3 April 1869, Page 18

MR WALTER MONTGOMERY.

Mr Walter Montgomery is about to visit New Zealand. An eccentric announcement of the fast appears in a Melbourne contemporary, in the following terms :—: — To the Public of Victoria, with the greatest possible respect, — T, Walter Montgomery, have the honour to announce to my friends and the public that I; will give one farewell reading at the St. George's Hall, thia evening, Monday, March 8, 1569, at S o'clock. This is most positively my farewell appearance in Victoria for some considerable time, as I sail for New South Wales by first steamer, to fill an engagement acSydney, and thence to l^ew Zealand, under the special patronage of H.8..H. the Duke of Edinburgh, K.G-., &c. 1 beg to be permitted, in all true sincerity, to acknowledge j ■with gratitude the great, favours sh.owen.-d upon me by the warm-hearted liberal public ot this brilliant metropolis, and the no less intellectual and generous communities of Ararat, Avoci, Bacchus Marsh, Ballan, Bendigo, Ballarat, Beaufort, Beechworth, Belvoir, Beaalla, Black wood, CaStlemaine, Chiliern, Clurtes, Day'esford, Emerald Hill, Geelong. Kyneton, Kilmore, Maryborough, Mount Blaekwood, Pleasant Creek, lluthcrelen, Sandhurst. Stawell, £t Kilda, Talbot, TarremzowtT, Wahgnnyah, Wangaratta, Williamsiown, and Yaukandandah.

The voluucary expressions of gratification from thoughtful and enthusiastic public audiences c»nnot fail to be a source of the highest pleasure to an earnest artist, but when to this high compliment is supplemented a thousand gentle acts of private regard and esteem, the obligation be^omss a burden, unless frankly and openly acknowledged by the honoured and thankful recipient — •' lam poor in thanks, but I thank you :" you have indeed " used me after your own honour and dignity, 1 ' md "your pains are registered whei-e every day 1 turn the leaf to r?ad them."

To the liberal and independent press of this noli c colony 1 owe. and gladly pay, a rlobt of My efforts have merited both praise and censure, and wh'lst the former has been unsparingly bestowed tbe latter has been equally welcome — coupled, as it has been, by suggestions of inestimable benefit . It is true that an impotent minoi ity oi the " mo - of gentlemen who write at ease" have vnig.-rly assailed me ; but really their inane effusi'>ns are too ridiculou". to cause anger, and I grant them full permission to continue their tone — it pleases them and unharms me. I have this regretful remembruace for my solace— that far wiser, better, and more important members of society than myself are constantly objects of attack from these anonymous self-esteemed literary witless unwortlnes. ** The shame itself doth speak for instant remedy."