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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 23, 22 March 1918, Page 4

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Quarter-master Miles Barrowclough, who is on leave from the fighting line, arrived in Havelock on Wednesday evening, and was given a hearty reception by a large number of friends. He expects to return to camp in about three weeks time, prior to joining a returning draft for England. Miss Rosina Buckman, the New Zealand soprano, continues to make great strides in her profession in the Old Country. Regarding a performance of “Aida,” during the Christmas season of the Beecham Opera Company at Manchester, the “Guardian” says:— “Miss Buckman no longer argues, but sings, and if sheer beauty is divine, sings divinely. To be eloquent and to be simple is in song very much the same thing, or, at least, you cannot be the one without the other. Straight as love is all the Aida needs to be, and though she traps both herself Und her lover, it is of very love and of no guile. There is no reserve, no stay in the outi pouring of her song, no crooked emotion, no sliding hatred. She is music’s queen of tropical loveliness dusky of hue and dark of fortune, but golden at the heart. Miss Buckman has now tho greatness not to mar Aida’s singleness of heart.” .