GUEYMOUTH GROWLS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2326, 29 September 1898, Page 18

GUEYMOUTH GROWLS.

Greymoutli is not a finished town. It still wants a theatro; consequently tho "citizens are divided — not upon the theatre, but upon the futuro site of that edifico upon whose fooblighted boards some Macready or Peg 'Woffing•fcon, some Sir Henry Irving or Ellen Terry, may resurrect in their own illustrious personages tho kings of our Stratford-on-Avon William; where archness and solemn soaring tempera may echo and tremble with the thrilling accents of a Melba, a now G-. V. Brooke, or 'even a certain Dtmedin tenor whom Coasters cravo to hear. One section of the Gxeymouth community say : "We are the people, our street is the hub, and here only must our new opera house be planted." Tho other loudly screams : "We are Demos, and the theatro shall be in our midst, and in no other place can it be, else it shall not have being at all." In plain terma, some desire Government to give up the drillshed in Tainui street for an opera houso, but as tho powers that bo decline, Greymouth has decided to buy out the Lower Richmond quay store of Messrs Easaon and Co., and plant the theatie there; and then, after Greymouth. gets it, has the Point Elizabeth Coal Company and railway finished, its Midland railway completed, ita population, correspondingly increased, and lias everybody enjoying a competency, it will probably bo finished.