NAPIER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue XX, 19 May 1900, Page 949

NAPIER.

Bear Bee. May 11. One of the enjoyable meetings of the Hawke’s Bay Highland Society was held in the Foresters’ Hall on the 4th inst., when Mr 11. D. D. McLean presided. The programme consisted chief!v of songs and Scottish dances. Mr 11.' King gave an excellent flute solo. Messrs M’lntosh, A. Cameron and J. P. Thomson also kindly contributed songs. The evening’s entertainment concluded with “Auld Lang Syne. Mr Wilson (for the round dances) supplied the pianoforte music, and Mr J. Shanahan piped for the Scottish dances during the evening. The songs were also accompanied by Mr C. Wilson.

Mr George Swan, who has left Napier for Wanganui, was, previous to his departure, entertained at the Criterion Hotel by his many friends on Friday last. Mr W. IL Blythe, who took the chair, after an appropriate speech, presented Mr Swan with a purse of sovereigns as a token of the esteem in which he is held by the Napier people. Mr Swan, in replying, thanked them for the gift, and said liow much he felt parting with them after living amongst them for thirtyfour years. Mr Swan will be especially missed in amateur theatrical circles, and he has always been willing to help either with songs or recitations at any public entertainment. Several musical items concluded the evening’s diversion.

A series of literary and musical lectures are being inaugurated here, to take place every Tuesday evening during the winter months at the Athenaeum Hall. The two principal movers in the matter are the Misses Spencer and Large, and some of the lecturers will be the Dean of Waiapu, Mr P. S. McLean. Miss Hodge. Mr Parsonsoil, Mr Wood, and several other well-known local ladies and gentlemen.

There was a large audience at the Edison Company’s kinematograph entertainment. This consisted chiefly of scenes at the war in South Africa, varied by musical items on the eolossophone. The performance took place on Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday afternoon there was a matinee performance, which was also well attended. MARJORIE.