FOOTBALL CLUB CONCERT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 810, 16 June 1879, Page 2

FOOTBALL CLUB CONCERT.

The Football Club Concert held on Saturday evening at Mr. McFarlane's Hall, . despite several minor defects visible to the spectators, owing to the unfinished state of the building, it may, taking.it altogether, be deemed a success. The most important consideration, viz., the attendance was good, and the singing and what there was of music, was also good. We would like to particularise and commend each piece rendered, but adduce the printer's usual plea — time, pressure of space, &c, — and go oii to say that Mr. Arthur, m sailor costume, very pleasingly sang two popular nautical airs, and the chorus being given from behind the scenes, (at least from out of sight somewhere, the scenery being not yet erected) produced a good effect over the audience. Mrs. Jones sang, with an exceedingly sweet and taking manner, some new and pretty songs, and was upon each occasion that she made her appearance, heartily encored. Madame Stewart sang m her usual brilliant and accomplished style, and got raptuously encored. Mr. Scott gave two very good comic songs m a manner that the audience seemed to immensely appreciate. Messrs. Ratcliffe and Arthur to the tune of the "•Bold Gendarmes," sang a local hit on the now pending Arms Act case, but the words were scarcely enunciated distinctly enough to be comprehended by the listeners, who could not obtain the gist of the joke and laugh accordingly. Messrs. Scott and Ratcliffe, as bandmaster and bandsman of the "Little Yarman Band," caused much merriment, the droll manner of Mr. Scott, with his brass, we should say some mongrel cornet, or perhaps, an antique specimen of a French horn— being quite inimitable. Mr. Pearce played the bones very cleverly, and he, with another gentleman amateur, who sang and played a banjo accompaniment, very nicely wound up the evening's entertainment with a few short antics of negro buffoonery. During the interval, His Worship the Mayor distributed the prizes to the successfnl winners at- the late sports, with a few appropriate remarks to each.