THE LATE CHARITABLE PERFORMANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 533, 25 September 1871, Page 2

THE LATE CHARITABLE PERFORMANCE.

The following correspondence lias.been handed to us for publication : — ." To 8.. C. Dyer, Esq., Hon. S;c—My dear sir,—l hare muck pleasure iv enclosing you a cheque for £23 Is. for the PnrneTl Orphnn Home, being half the not proceeds of the benefit last evening.. Thanking you at tho same time for your kind assistance in bringing the affair to so "satisfactory a ■conclusion, —I am, &c, Wiluam Hoskins.—Army and Navy "Hotel, Spptf. 22, 1871." ": ' '•' , "To William_.HqaMns, Esq.—My dear sir, —I JifLye;'t,o ;the receipt of your kind liofe,'"enclosing a cheque for £23 Is. a?.u donation, froni Miss Colville and yourself to the JParnfcll. Orphan Hbine,, and ; have much pleasure in thanking you, on' behalf of the Orphan Eorno Committee, for your .generous exertions .in aid of that institution. I also wish, through you, to thank the proprietor of the Theatre Royal for giving the use of his theatre free of charge, and the newspaper proprietors, who declined to receive payment for -advertising the performance.—l am, &c, R. C. Dyeb, Acting Hon. Sec, —Sbortland-street, Sept. 23, 1871. A similar letter lias also been sent by the secretary of fc'io Ladies' Uene.volent Society.