PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 473, 17 July 1871, Page 2

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

This place of amusement remains as popular as ever, notwithstanding the strong counter attractions. On Saturday night there was a first-class attendance to every part of the house, when Tom Taylor's splendid comedy of], the " Contested Election"-was produced, and from beginning to end-elicited the most hearty./roars of laughter and the most unbounded applause. This piece could, not bo seen by the most morose or hypocnondrical without doing them an immense amount of good, and we should advise all of a melancholy turn of mind not to miss seeing it to-morrow night, for ifc would do them more good thun all the doctor's stuff in the worjd. Mr. Hoskius, as the Klection Agent, and Miss Oolvilie, as the wife uf the unwilling candidate, wero provocative of the most enthusiastic merrinieht, while Messrs. Jones, Hydes, and Hyan each had a part thoroughly congenial to to him. Then there were rival electors, rival committee men, rival editors, and rival parties, who, of course, were in themselves a fund of timusement, so thab on the whole, we do not think we have seen anything pass off in such a truly humourous style for years past. This evening is a grand command night under the patronage and in the presence of His Excellency the Governor, when, by special desire, the comedy of " The Jealous Wife " and the satire of " The Critic, or the Tragedy llehearsed," will form, the programme. /. ■■'-..]-' 'X