DONALD MACDONALD.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 19 September 1900, Page 2

DONALD MACDONALD.

1 : AT THE ODDFELLOW'S HALL, TONIGHT. Judging from the prevailing enthusiasm there is little douot but that the Oddfellow s Hall will be crowded to the doors tins evening to welcome Donald Macdonald, ; the gifted Australian War Correspondent, whoso tour in the North has proved a series of triumphs. A contempoiavy says "Ever since the first announcement that < D-nald Jlacdona'd, war correspondent, I and one of the heroes of Ladysmith, in- i tended lecturing there has been quite a lever of excitement, and as the elate of i tho opening night approached almost the first question put by one person to another Mas "Are you going to hear Donald Macdonald':" It was little surprising, therefore, to find the Theatre Eoyal filled on ■Friday evening by an audience on the 1 into •• of expectation and eager to take in the minutest details of the thrilling scenes i<n«l sensations of the war, and they were not disappointed. Mr Macdona'd has not „been overrated— his lecture was a thorough and well deserved success." Tho lecture for .this evening in entitled "Scenes and Sensations of Battle," and has been freely described as Donald MacdonaleVs finest effort.