PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.

Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 630, 18 January 1872, Page 2

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.

" Othello" was reproduced last evening with the great combination cast. Those who came to witness Mr Tavares' lago enjoyed a treat seldom to be met with. His realization of this character is entirely successful. There is a charming finish about his acting, coupled with an easy grace and dignity from which there is an entire absence of anything that might be thought affected or " stagey." Mr Hoskins played Othello in a capital manner. Miss Colville and Miss Surtees were the Desdemona and Emilia, and both dressed and acted their roles well. The remainder of the company sustained their respective parts very creditably. This evening the splendid play of the Hunchback will be performed with the combination cast.

We observe by advertisements that Mr. R \V. Dyson, so long and favourably known in the drapery trade, is about to relinquish the business, and consequent upon the expiration of his lease will, for the remainder of term, hold an unusually cheap sale, and solicits an early call to secure bargains : [Advs.]

The French papers publish a curious statement, said to have been prepared from authentic statistics, showing that during a year's occupation of Champagne, the German army of occupation consumed no less than 2,560,000 bottles of the famous vintage of that country.