INVERCARGILL COMPETITIONS.

Otago Witness, Volume 23, Issue 2684, 23 August 1905, Page 24

INVERCARGILL COMPETITIONS.

(Fkom Ouk Own Coeeespondent.) INVERCARGILL, August 15. Tho Invercargill competitions concluded to-night, when there was another very larga audience. To-morrow nig-ht a grand enterlainmont will bo given, when all the first prizc-winneis will repeat their pieces. Tho musical judge (Mr W. Pagefc Gale) did not criticise ihe individual performances, buf; gave general advice to the performeTS as a result of his obsarvations. The judges in elocution (Messrs Meliaffey and Pearce) also gave out how they arrived at their results, and their amiouncomoni; will no doubt be of great service to future competitors. The followine are the results: — IMPROMPTU SPEECH.— Mr T. L. Walton 1, Mr S. D. Pearce 2, Mr Godron Brown 3.

PIANOFORTE SOI/O (under 13 and ovei' 10).— Miss Essie M'Kay 1, Miss W. L. Hensly % Master J. MacPlierson 3. SOPRANO SOLO ("Spring love song").— ■ Miss M'Calluni 1, Miss H. Hodge 2, Miss EDuim 3. KEOITATIOJNT, open (" The Bivouac Fire"). —Miss Y. Cook 1, Mr M'Killop 2, Miss J. U< Ball 3. PIANOFORTE SOLO, open (" Impromptu mazurka o.p. 120— Luck ").— Mrs F. M. "Walton 1, Miss V. M'Kay 2, Miss M. JSrskine 3 RECITATION for Girls under 14 ("Ring Out, Wild Bells")-— Miss Madge Morrison 1, Miss F. Snodgrass 2, Miss Gladys"" Lob" 3. PIANOFORTE SOLO, under ~15 and oveß 13 (" Be_rceuse No. 13").— Miss A. Bennett 1« Miss M. Spile 2 QUARTET for Male Voices ("Rest, dearest, rest").— Messrs Thompson, Cook, Perry, and Taylor 1; Messrs George, Simrhpton, Churton, and Mockeridge 2. CONTRALTO SOLO ("Midnight visitors'> —Miss B. L. Lakeman 1, Misa M. Archibald 2. VTOLIN- SOLO, open (" Romance").— Mr P. A. Poole 1, Mr C. S. Brown 2. BARITONE SOLO (" In her garden").— Mb P. Brown 1. * PIANOFORTE DUET, open ("San 3 Souci") —Mrs Walton and Mr M'Laren 1, Messrs Dobie and Jones 2. VOCAL DUET, Lady and Gentleman ("Maying"). — Miss M'Kibbiii and Mr Cookson 1, Miss M'Callurn and Mr George 2. RECITATION, Boys under 14 (" The Battle of the Baltic").— Master E. R. M'Killop 1, R M. Goold 2, P. Valentine 3. RECITATION, Ladies ("Portia's Descrip* tion of Her Suitors").— Miss M. E. Satmdera 1, Mrs Isabella Hastie 2, Miss J. E. Ball S.