CONCERT AT DRUMMOND.

Western Star, Issue 2155, 10 November 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

CONCERT AT DRUMMOND.

(from que own correspondent.)

The annual school concert passed off with great eclat on the sth inst. It was, I think, all through, one of the best, certainly the best patronised, we have bad. The school was taxed to its utmost capacity to find space for close on 300. If the committee had not made the special efforts they did to economise sitting space, it would have been tight enough. Everyone seemed in the best of humor. The audience was orderly and highly ap preciative of the efforts of the performers to give a good entertainment, wbicb it really was, the applause being vigorous and hearty. The programme bp°ened with a nicely played overture by the Misses Mackintosh. A section oftheWinton String Band, assisted by Mr P. A. Blyth on the cornet, put the audience in good form, being followed by Miss Ruby Colling?, a small school girl, with a recitation which took the house by storm, and the sue cessful efforts of a choir of school children led by Miss McArthur in several nicely-selected pieces helped to keep thinga moving. It would be invidious to mention any one in particular when all did so well, but those who have previously heard Master and Mies Nelson will allow that no performers would grudge tbem the well-merited encomiums they received, which, as the chairman remarked of the longer piece they went through so grandly, •« The Truant Officer," " was well | worth all the money." The glee party Comprising the Misses McLeish, Mackintosh, and Mclllwrick, and Mrs Sutton, and Messrs Officer, Buckingham, Asbcroft, and Cochran did iheir part admirably. Mr Duke with two violin bolos, and Mr A. Riddel (Winton), sailor's hornpipe, also received wellmerited applause. Misses Brown and Mclllwrick, besides giving solos wiih great effect, played the most of the accompaniments." Mr Wilson (Winton), who is always appreciated on the,PMns and at Drummond, was all and ably supplemented bv the Misses Wilson w'th duets. Our old friend, Mr David Younger, with bis inimitable Scotch reading, was greatly appreciated, as was also Mr McColl with a similar contribution. The soloists, some of whom I have already noticed in the part singing, were —Misses Brown, McLeish, and Mclllwrick, and Messrs B. Wilson, A. Asbcroft, A. Officer, and J. Taylor (Otautau). Mr John Merrifield, chairman of the school committee, occupied the chair, and kept things moving pleasantly. Votes of thanks to the performers and to the chairman terminated an enjoyable evening. The school had been decorated by Miss Ward in her usual artistic style. The usual dauce followed, but it was not so well patronised as on previous occasions. Mr James Taylor (Otautau), was the caterer, and Miss Mclllwrick (piano) and Mr Geo. Duke (violin), supplied excellent music.