The Corricks are at Nelson.

Observer, Volume XXI, Issue 1177, 20 July 1901, Page 5

The Corricks are at Nelson.

Mr Walter Bentley appears in New York next season. Comedian Bain is in Queensland, after a short tonr of which he will show It r Harry Ricbarda. Orlando Daly, who was in Auckland with Bentley, has been engaged by Brongh for hlB new company. Nina Osborne, who played for a while with Sheridan in Weetralia, openfl with the Pollards in New Zealand on July 18 The Fitzgerald Brothers, with their circus and menagerie, are touring North Queensland, and getting crowded tentß and tip-top ptesß notices. Mr John Prouse, the well known baritone, has been engaged to tour New Zealand. He will subsequently sing to Australians throughout the Federal States. Mr E. Nable, of the Pollard Opera Company, has severed his connection therewith, and joined the other Pollard Company — of iilipntians — as stage manager. Nable has many friendß In Auckland. Mr John Fuller and Mr Harry Bickards have had a little tiff. A lady Is the cause. She signed' a contract lot an engagement with Harry before the expiration of her term with John, and there 1b much tribulation in consequence. 1 Ben Hnr,' the Australian and New Zealand rights of which have been secured by Mr Williamson, has just closed a run of fourteen months Id America. It is a powerful religious play, and during its run the receipts are said to have been enormous, amounting to a gross toUl oi over £160 000— at the rate of, roughly speaking, £3000 a wet k John Fnller, from all accounts, in doing well at the Sydney Empire. There are with him a host of Auckland favourites, including Charles Fining, Danis Carney, Ted Holland and Georgie Devoe. Thexe are alao others who are bettor known In Australia. Job.it hat sent me a day bill containing tberiiffl lisVOf his company and part of the programme, and a mere gl»n:e thereat shows that he is running something big. / Nance O'Neil r JHrtKee Kankin and their dramatic^mpasf w^l leave Perth for Cape Town attbw fta? 28th of August. The company whldKfMi accompany the stars Include*; the MlM& Lewrßnwcta, Bewle TbompM* 'Allo^ Crawford Riooa Aden, and Messrs' Thomas Kingston, Cyrii Keigbtley, Percy Brongh, Gao Seek* Alfred Tallett, F. Pnllllpa, Reginald Dartrey and Walter R&ydham. The South African season will be inaugurated in Cape 'i'owo at the end of September.

A bookstall at the Fjrankton JudoHod, the want cf which ha* lop* been felt, not only by the travelling public, bnt also by the resident* thereaboats r has been started by Mr W. H. Panl, bookseller of Hajnitton, who hs« leMed the ?iebtß. Hitherto no books have been ob« tamable between Anckland, Boiorna, and the Thames, and the fact that- Mr Pan!, who has eante^ on with great saoeeser a business at Hamilton, is to rpn:«ke. stall wUi be a guarantee of K» ftp to-datedoess. Mr Panl is agent for the Obsbbveb at Hamilton and Frankton.