OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 682, 2 April 1903, Page 16

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.

Among the pictures to be found in this issue will be three which depict the Auckland Swimming Club s sports in the Auckland Graving Dock, which took place last v Saturday afternoon. There is no more difficult subject for the camera than swimming sports, as the men when going at high speed are almost entirely immersed, but our photographer has managed to secure some snaps which convey a very good idea of the sport. * * * * ?■' Among the horses whose portraits are given are Matulku, who has lately dis- ;?• 6 tinguished himself in hack company at '/Taranaki; the Vanguard mare Queen’s Guard, who will be a competitor at the approaching Autumn fleeting; and the well-Known pony Belle Cole, one of the smartest of her inches in the North Island, and who has just been sold to leave the colony. * « » * The four boy sapranos which Mr. Edward Branscombe brings to New Zealand with his Westminster Abbey Glee and-Concert Party are said to be the best in England, and f that means the world, for nowher eelse does a boy’s voice reach the high state of cultivation and sweetness that it does in the tight little Isle. With their Eton jackets, white roll collars, and chubby faces, the audience are always in love with the little chaps before they begin to sing, U and if there are any who aret notj they' are always thoroughly converted beiore the little lads have finished. Miss Maude Tobias is a young Aucklander mezzo soprano, who is making a U. name fo rherself in local musical circles. JMr and Mrs Abel Rowe, two wellinown singers in Auckland musical circles ; and the Amateus Operatic stage, who took part in the recent production of “Les Cloche be Corneville ” by the New Plymouth Amateur Operatic Club last month. Mr. Rowe taking “ Grei- < cicheaux,’’ and Mrs. Rowe (Miriam Wrigley) that of “iChrisiophe.”