Wanganui

New Zealand Tablet, 22 August 1912, Page 43

Wanganui

(From our own correspondent.)

August 15.

On last Sunday there was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Mary’s Church. In the evening there was the usual procession of the Blessed Sacrament, in which the different societies took part. . . % . Mr. Charles Travers, of the local Railway Department, who has been transferred to Fordell, was, on Monday evening, presented with a suit case by the Very Rev. Dean Holley, on behalf of the St/ Vincent de Paul Society, of which he was a very active member. The entertainment by the Snowflake Minstrels/ which is to be given in the Opera House on the 27th and 28th of this month, promises to be a great success. Local amateurs, over one hundred in number, will take part. Mr. George Buckley, the musical director, will have an operatic chorus of nearly fifty members, and an orchestra of twenty-five. A well-trained ballet of twenty-five dancers will appear, in the ‘ flower and butterfly ballet.’ A charming quartet of ladies will appear in a song and dance, and the first part of the programme will have the additional charm of a beautiful stage setting from the brush of Mr. Horace Melville. Mrs. Irene Connop is in charge of the ballet, and she promises something on a more lavish scale than she has hitherto given the public. For the second part of the evening’s entertainment a dramatic piece has been in rehearsal for some time. Here again Mr. Melville has excelled himself in the scenery, the snow scene being quite a splendid study in coloring. The boy conjurors are to give a performance which will interest and mystify their audience. The entertainment is in aid of the convent school.