Untitled

Observer, Volume XXXII, Issue 52, 7 September 1912, Page 9

On Tuesday evening next the Town Hall will .be the scene of a big complimentary concert tendered to Mr-Henry Brett by the Auckland Choral Society, assisted by the Auckland Liedertafel. Essentially the concert has been organised as a tribute to Mr Brett who has presented the city with its magnificent organ, and been a benefactor to music lovers in numerous other ways, but incidentally the performance will help to raise funds for the purchase of instruments of the same pitch as the organ, the instruments to be the property of the city. A splendid programme has been arranged, consisting of choruses from " The Messiah," " Elijah," "The Creation," and " The Golden Legend." Mr H. C. Dutton will play the organ, accompaniments and specially selected solos will be sung by Miss Stella McLean and Mr Barry Coney. As the price of admittance to all parts of the hall will be only one shilling, a crowded house may be expected. * * * To-morrow night (Friday) another entertainment will be given in the Town Hall, this being the Complimentary Concert tendered to Misses Lizzie and Madoline Knight. Both ladies will contribute items and will be assisted by the Lyric Four, Mr Egerton Pegg, Mr Alan McElwain, Herr Raimund Pechotsch, Mr Montague, Miss Zoe Bartley, Mr H. C. Borradale, and Mr Wilfrid Manning, while the accompanists will be Madame Pechotsch, Miss Madoline Webb and Mr Leo Whittaker. * * * In a country where one-seventh of the population is in the employ of the State we need not emphasise the importance of Mr Herdman's projected reform.—Palmerston " Standard." * * * Mr Massey is right in making absolute security of tenure with safeguards against aggregation, one of the main planks of his platform. By this means he will not only encourage settlement, but he will encourage good farming, and he will obtain in the form of primary products the utmost of which the country is capable with the least possible exhaustion to the soil.—lnvercargill "Times." - * * * Until confidence in New Zealand is completely restored in London the Government will be forced to practice strict economy and to be unusually guarded in its promises with respect to public works. The complete abandonment of the system of political patronage which has ruled for so many years may make many enemies for the Ministry, but if a sound and sane system of administration in all departments is pursued more friends than enemies will be eventually made. — New Plymouth "Herald." ** * . If Mr Thomas Mackenzie sends us a few thousand labourers and Mr Massey borrows enough money to build houses for them in the promised "suitable localities," the result may, after all, go to show that a divinity doth shape our ends as oft as not, for the English agricultural labourer is nowadays taking a most desperate interest in the progress of Radical land reform, and can be depended to give us his cheerful assistance here. The introduction of a contingent of these persons into the Wairarapa, Rangitikei and Hawke's Bay districts, for instance, would be most beneficial from every point of view.—New Zealand "Times."