BULLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20190, 5 July 1928, Page 2

BULLS

MINIATURE RIFLE SHOOTING [ Special "Chronicle” Service J There was a good attendance at the weekly shoot of the Bulls Miniature Rifle Ulub on Tuesday night and some good scores were registered. C. Edwards headed the list with 68—69 off the rifle, but C. M. Broughton scored well with 67—69. The following are the detailed scores: C. Edwards 3—68—69—139; C. Broughton 3—67—69—.139; B. Stokes 5—67 67—139; s. Avery 6—63—70—139; H. Lunn 9—67—66—139; I. Bevan 4—6 B— F. Ralfe 6—67—65—138; C. Haycock 11—61—66—138; D. Lundy 3—67—67—137; S. Sharp 6—65—66 137; S. Mason 6—65—66—137; F. Clapcott 7—65—65—137; S. Duncum 12— 61—63—136; S. Rich 7-68—60—135. • GENERAL NEWS The Ohakca hockey girls’ dance on Tuesday evening was well attended and it is expected that the club funds will be considerably augmented by the func« tion. The music was supplied by Mr Duckworth, of Palmerston North, and during the supper interval Miss P, Penny played two extras. A dainty supper was dispensed by the lady supporters of the club and patrons had a really good time. The Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union will hold their fortnightly pingpong and card tournament in the Clifton Hall to-night. Preparations are well in hand for the Tennis Club’s annual ball, which will be held in the Town Hall next Tuesday evening, and everything points to I the function being must successful. All tennis members arc expected to turn up to the working-bee which will be held on Monday night, when the main work of decorating the hall and supper-room will take place. Messrs Frank and Wallace Stevens, Bulls, returned on Tuesday night from a six weeks’ trip to the Islands ,during the course of which they visited Raratonga, Tahiti and Morea. The croquet ladies arc holding a euchre party in the Town Hall supperroom to-morrow afternoon. ‘‘ROSE OF THE GOLDEN WEST” The most romantic era in the history of this continent—the nearest tppelation to the stage, to lierature or any approach to the golden medieval days of gallantry—is to be found in the period when Spain ruled California. It is in this colourful span of years that “Rose of the Golden West,” the George Fitzmaurice First National production is based and which will be shown at Bulls on Saturday. Spanish dons, nobility equal to the barons ana dukes and earls of Europe, ruled the land. Their kingdoms were the enormous land grants given by the Spanish Crown to those who had distinguished themselves by some means in the conquest of the New World. ALFRED O’SHEA Applications for seats at H. I. Jones and Son’s, where the Alfred O’Shea box plans are on view, plainly indicate that Wanganui music lovers are looking forward to the two concerts to be given by the great Irish tenor, in the Opera House on Monday and Tuesday of next week, under the direction of Henry Hayward. To give some idea of the diversity of Mr O’Shea’s programmes and the excellence of his singing we quote an excerpt from a recent “Sydney Morning Herald” notice: “The cabled reports of Mr Alfred O’Shea’s remarkable success in London were partly responsible for the overflowing audience which greeted him at the Sydney Town Hall last night. Mr O’Shea has a wonderfully sweet tenor voice and has been taught how to use it to the best advantage. He does not strive to shake the walls, but he can when the occasion requires rise to heights of passionate climaxes. He held his audience fascinated, particularly in the lovely Handelian air, “Waft Her Angels to the Sky.” It is unusual for an audience to interrupt a sequence of songs but that it what Mr O’Shea’s audience demanded last night when he sang an exquisite French song, “Lo Memoir.” In his encore pieces Mr O’Shea gave “Il Tesoro” from Don Giovanni, which was a sheer delight, and he also sang “Hag Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded,” “Oft in the Stilly Night,” and several other old Irish melodies with a sincerity and sweetness and sympathetic feeling that have never been approached in Sydney.” UNEMPLOYMENT A meeting of the Citizens Ladies’ Committee will be held in the Council Chambers to-day at 2 p.m. This is to further consider details in connection with “Paddy’s Market" festivities. It is the wish that all that can will make a point of being in attendance. It has been arranged that the Queen’s Park and Avenue School bands -will march in the Avenue next Friday and take up a street collection in aid of the tinemployment fund.