Professor Richard.

Observer, Volume XIV, Issue 784, 13 January 1894, Page 15

Professor Richard.

To-night, (Thursday), Professor Richard, M.E., opens a y.ery brief Beason at City Hall. Admission will be free. The Professor .proposes to give a demonstration of his ability to cure disease by means of electricity. Patients will be operated on in full view of the audience. If Professor Richard can perform one half the wonderehe is credited with he will make a sensation. And a big one. The proof of the pudding, etc. All will have an opportunity this evening 1 of judging whether the power with which the Professor is declared by the Southern as well as the Australian papers to possess, exists. The exhibition will not be confined to healing. The humourous side, so to speak, of electricity, will be illustrated aa well. This part of the programme always takes. The City Hall is sure to be packed this evening. Go early and secure your seats. There is going to be a rush.

Mr JJ.-Tudehope announces his candidature for vacant City Council seat. He puts it well. Education Board announcement in this issue re election of school committees in eleven school districts. A list of the persons to whom auctioneers' licenses have just been issued appears in another column. Auckland Swimming Club announce championship meeting at Calliope Dock, Jan. 13th and 17th. See this attractive announcement. Mr John Kirk wood, wholesale wine and spirit merchant and general commission agent, has a business announcement in our advertising columns. ' Death— and Afterwards ' is the rather startling title of a theosophical lecture to be delivered next Sunday at Choral Hall by Mrs Sara Draffin. Messrs Becroft, Stichbury and Tudehope have been nominated for the City Council seat vacated by Councillor Wright. Election on Tuesday, 16th inst. Mr Stichbury, a candidate for the vacant chair at the City Council table, ought to make an admirable member if elected. He is a straight-goer, and has plenty of time at his disposal to give to his work. At the "Ly ttelton Regatta on Jan . Ist the race for warships 's boats (any description of service boat with unlimited number of men and oars) proved a very interesting and exciting contest. The prize was won by the French man-o-war, Duguay Trouin's pinnace. Six crews started. The verdancy of the New Zealand public is really astonishing. The same old trick is sprung upon it time after time, and it growls and writes to the papers, and vows that it won't be had again. And it isn't. Until next time. Just now a man with samples of superfine tweed is bußy taking orders down South. He offers to bind you neatly in cloth for about a fourth the price charged by your tailor, takes one pound deposit, and gaily skips to the next house. And you wait for that cheap new suit until you realise that you will never see it, or your deposit either. The cheap suit dodge is as threadbare as a circus clown's joke, but it gets there all the same.