NELSON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 24, 11 June 1892, Page 598

NELSON.

Dear Bee. June 1. We Nelsonites have enjoyed a rare treat this last week in listening to Mr and Miss Snazelle, who performed to crowded houses for four nights. The beautiful illustrations aie alone well worth going to see. Mr Snazelle is so irresistibly funny in some of his droll yams—in fact, the theatre has never before been the scene of so much laughter. We all hope he will again visit Nelson at no very distant date. PRESSES AT THE THEATRE. During the season among those in the audience I noticed Mrs Macquarrie, robed in black lace, with grev pkish cloak ; Mrs Levien, Mrs Richmond, Mrs Broad, in black merveilleux, blue silk shawl ; Mesdanies Sclanders, Moss (Greyniouth), Booth, 11. Dodson, Wix, Grace, Sealy, Pitt, and Misses Sealy, Levien, Morse (Wanganui), Broad, Macdonald, Richmend (wearing sweet cloaks of creamy cashmere trimmed with cream astrachan), Catley, Moss (Greymouth), and Fell, lire stage was arranged as a drawingroom with pot plants, etc. A CONCERT IN THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH the other evening was well attended. The gem of the performance was Mrs Houlker’s rendering of Stephen Adams’ song, ‘By the Fountain.’ The Trio, ‘Evening,’ by Mesdames Evans, Houlker, and Miss Mackay was also very enjoyable. Miss L. Fell played a pianoforte solo, ‘ Chopin’s Polonaise (Op. 26)' most artistically. THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY was a very quiet day in Nelson for those who did not go into the country to see the Volunteer Review, and those who did drive out from town must have had a far from pleasant time, judging front my own experience. The wind was bitterly cold, and some of us were thankful we had wraps to mutlle ourselves up in. Instead of the usual feu de-joie by the volunteers, it had been determined to hold a review at Brightwater on the Birthday. With this intention a very fair number of volunteers left Nelson by the 930 train. On their arrival at Briglitwater the battalion was marched to a field, where after filing a feu-de-joie and marching past in quick and double time, the men were put through the ‘ physical exercise with arms,’ taking the word from Captain Littlejohn. The attack and formation was then gone through, a squad of College Cadets, stationed on a hill about a mile from the attacking force, forming a defence party. After the attack the Battalion was dismissed for the day with the exception of the Artillery, who were engaged in shot and shell-practice. In the afternoon there were military sports, in which the men took great interest, especially in the tug of-war, which was eventually won by the Stoke Rifles, those ‘sturdy sons of the plough ’ being too strong for all their opponents. There were a large number of spectators present during the day. Among some of those from town were Mesdames Sclanders, Richmond, Evans, Littlejohn, Misses Richmond, Harrison (Wanganui), Moss (Greymouth), etc.

Phyllis.