SAVACE CLUB.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12831, 29 June 1910, Page 6 (Supplement)

SAVACE CLUB.

(From "Tlie Colonist," Juuc 20.) The usual fortnightly korero was held on Saturday evening, there bouifj a record attendance of over 100, and the programme was an excellent one. Savage Jas Houlker was m the chair, and ruled the tribe in the ancient and Jjonoured manner with tlie pipe^ of tieaec. The salute and haka haying been performed with all its acensiomcd ferocity, Great Chief Magmnit.v called for a. further ltaka in honour of the anniversaiT of AVatcrloo, and the assembled warriors spontaneously sang "Rule Britannia" under -the "baton*" of the Great Chief. The orchestra,, which now nsimbers some dozen performers, gave a selection from "Maritana" in good style, and were followed by Savage Saunders who described a mythical football match, Ancients v. Moderns, the description . of players and thedr play being decidedly quaint. .; A qulaiiette (Savages de Looze and Houlker 3) made their first appearance, and scored ft great success Anth ri TheSoWier'e FareweU," having to respond to an insistent encore, singing. ' 'The Two Roses." Savage E. J. Allen also made his debut on Sai> urday evening and proved himself a very humourous racouteur, his yarns being highly appreciated, as were also the experiences of Savage Ken Lucas, gathered from the eccentricities of compositors. Savage Foster brought feck a message from the ChristchuTch Savage Club, the message being "done into English," by SavafjeT. Cane, and causing much merriment. A handful of capital jest* by Savage A. P. Burnes "brought 1 the first part of the .programme to an end. After aupper the Savage orchestra opened, with "Th« Turkish Patrol," and so much was th« tribe delighted that it demanded a -repetition. Two Tisitors, Messrs Rog- ■ *XS and Kinneburgh, eontributod yarns, and Savage McCabe in Ins ibest 6tyle moHologued "The Railway Smash," his efforts 'creating any amount of laugliter, his reply being fit Doean't Matter." A great treat was afforded again by the singing ofc Savoge Foster, who sang "My Qupe*u". and in acknowledgnie^it of the tnm-i nHuous applaus* "I'll SinfiThee SongAof Araby:" ,Tht> trlbit beins, *t/JJ an- j satisfied be. l< )jpoUp * piw»." Thitlastj Itsm was bj »noth»r vteitov, S«,wafeJ BVrne, of Dnnectfn, who wirs in c)init■t'voice, and sang "Good Night L/)v«." During the evening the Chairman called attention, to the clock hnne.in. hall (made by Savage "Ward) which «Vi «jntomaticaJlj r«galat«] the ki^th of speeches. An' inscription in Maori oh its' face reminded long-winded orstorff that time glides Fast. Hi« .next keMJ 1 * will be presided ov«t\y Savage Burnes| wad « novel i't*m will be A short pI».T, -under the (stage management of- Savage P;B. Parker.