FEILDING FANCIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2913, 12 January 1910, Page 73

FEILDING FANCIES.

By Old 'Un. ' Tidings from the outside world percolate even into Feilding. "Within, th® past week I have had personal sheetings brought to me from friend Geach. It is good news i to have two assurances that lang-

.On Wednesday last we hod a call from Charles Pollard's Merry Midget Company, under the direction of Mr Edwin Gcach and stage-managed by our old friend Ernest Sehatz fhusba-nd of a popular Pollardia-n, Lily Stcp'be'ri.s, who is now settled in. Ohristchurch).. The Midgets, who are flying south-wards (they"were in Palme nston last night), are. the very smallest folks I have seen out of a fairy ring, and they are really ''clever, entertaining, a.nd sprightly, The whole show, which .is a musical melange, goes with a bang from the rise to the-fall of the curtain.. They bad a good house in Palmerston last night, too, and promised to pay a return visit.

prophesied "future J. G, W, of Australia" attended. In the evening Mr Bacon held is coming on. I am somewhat difficult a mass meeting, when the hall was at figured therefore it is. not easy to re- crowded The Rev. E 0. Blamires piecount how many companies of entertainers «dfd- Mr Bacon look for his 6ub J ec * are at present touring New Zealand under ''My Thoughts on the Waikarc. in which the sesis of Eddie G. At least, there ill fated ship Mr Bacon was a passcngei. are some. And the auburn-haired one is Commencing with a hidiorous description so busv keeping the pot boiling over to of the_ weather which spoilt the early home-"that- I am assured he cannot pos- p*rt of the excursion, Mr Bacon paid a 6 dbly leave Australia to tour New Zealand, mute to the beauty and gr,:ideur of Well that's somehow good-and-bad news the most perfect soencr he had ever seen for his manv friends, who would like to « t™ years during each of winch he see bis iiiial countenance some .nore . h«<*. travelled 30 000 miles, and quickly see (ins. f, L " ia ' i earned his listeners to the moment of the T have been moved to write "Pasquin" »n«shap, which ho described feelingly and X nave rjeen - vividly. In passing Mr Bacon commented and km witnesses again £«»»» upon the coolness of Captain Newton, the ,s having quite a rush «*W .-""J i bravest man he had ever met who even pocket, after a veritable drought ol enter , monient controlled his ship and' tamers. in +o fh« crew with an iron hand. The sublime True, we were impassability of the ladies was also touched rush by a two nights eeasoni of Edmund i ,->. Raccn stroke feelinfflv Montgomery's S'tbc mfiSoiS effoT of the <SS nf and co. with | gjh for the precipitous Jghjrf Bg quite a merry jingle '* W™f/ . j own thoughts.: He had been transferred Came an ancient caller the other day ; of the ■ boats .to the shore where, no vountrer in person tnan iu-yeai-oiia ■ . . .. -ij. j i ' jiu v«uu«bj f f , J f+h : -seated on a rock, his mind turned to Harrv Jr. Juvons, who is- in tronx 01 t.na . . „ , ■ . . ... , , clever young ma, from U.S.A.. Carter the : **™?- Porhaps not such a beautiful home Magician. Him vou know, so I will say " iVew but still, in the words of no more of him further -than to add that the everlasting song, he ie to give us one of his seances, to- Beat ever so humble morrow (Saturday) night. But of old lhe * e s »° l? lace llke Harry I could say quite a lot if I thought Mr Bacon, seated at the piano, rendered vou would listen to me. For H. P. L. was the old «bng feelingly in his rich soprano in a reminiscent mood, and we talked of voice. Continuing, Mr Bacon spoke of those days of 45 years ago : when the world the grace of God in sparing all on board, was his very own oyster, and he was doing and the bounty of the Divine Providence very well out of the old shell. Now he is m enabling all to reach the shore in beginning to think it is time he made way wety. The conclusion of Mr Bacon's for younger men, and retired to has address was much in the strain of what menageristic home in "Melbourne, which has already been written upon the subwas built by old hero Coppin. If you meet jeot, and was listened to with surpassing Harry, have a look at his watch, foi it was interest by those present, presented to him by Blondin, of the tightrope; and that makes it an ancient ticker. But time and space fill out. Here's to Harry P. Lyons, and may a cheerful heart keep with him to the very end. Strange, isn't it, that whilst all the world goes nightly to the picture show and Westhayward-o has covered our islands with the machine that fires photographs, Feilding lias been absolutely side-tracked these many months. Why? For no later than last week I heard a .man in the business, who used to be on the road, declare that Feilding was one •of the best-paying show towns on the West Coast. I think it is because a few weeks of wet nights affected the returns when a dig picture show included this town, in its circuit last winter. It was a strange coincidence that on four successive nights .when the show came round here it struck wet weather, and when the rain didn't fall the firm'e motor (its very own) broke down. That broke, up Feilding's chance of getting on the circuit again—that and the fact that we are still in need of a suitable town ball. The borough council, hasn't done anything further in this matter yet