POLLARD’S OPERA COMPANY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 289, 6 February 1896, Page 10

POLLARD’S OPERA COMPANY.

This ever-welcome combination arrived from Sydney on Monday, and is now playing to crowded houses at the Thames. The Auckland season will commence on Wednesday next, February 12th, and will be limited to ten nights only. The opening opera will be Planquette’s most melodious work, “Paul Jones.” This is acknowledged as being the best thing these clever young people do. The Sydney critics were unanimous in stating that Mr Pollard's production of this popular work was the best ever seen in Australia since the original representation by Marion Burton, Snazelle, Leitch, etc Lecocq’s charming comic opera, “ Girofle-Girofla,” will be the second novelty, and will be followed by “ The Gondoliers.” The box plan is now open at Wildman and Lyell’s, and the prices are fixed at 3s, 2s, and Is.

Sydney Referee thus refers to Mr Hordern’s Castor—Frailty colt: “ Astronomer is likely to furnish into a good horse, and he would need to when it is remembered that Mr Hordern gave 1575 gs for this half-brother to Trenton. He did

not succeed in gaining a winning bracket at the S.T.C. Meeting, but with anything like a clear run he should have done so, as he was disappointed more than once when trying to get through after entering the straight in the Amateur Plate. His two seconds were quite good enough, however, to make him worth keeping in mind for future events.”