LATE AUCKLAND NEWS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 29 August 1891, Page 324

LATE AUCKLAND NEWS.

Madame Bernhardt spent a few hours in Auckland on her way from Sydney to 'Frisco. She had a fearfully bad passage, the Mariposa being two days longer than usual over the trip, owing to the gale. Alas! the poor actress was very bad with mal de-mer: -indeed, few of the passengers escaped. Madame Sara drove at once to the Albert Hotel, and enjoyed a bath and breakfast, bnt she absolutely declined all visitors, saying she was trap fatignte. She bought a number of Maori curios, walking down Queen-street attended in a sort of procession by many of her company, also her lovely hnge dog. Madame went out for a dnve in the afternoon to enjoy the unrivalled view from Mount Eden. Auckland is a singularly unenthusiastic city, and the great actress was left very much to herself all day. She has such a wonderful face, and charming French manners. Hw we hoped she would have acted here ! But the steamer carried her off in the evening.