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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1688, 16 July 1875, Page 3

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fPer Press Telegram Agency.) 1 ThJaday. Indecent. PlaysMrs Bates took her benefit last night, the ; P ce selected being *' Dechoscope. " All the c papers condemn the piece as immoral. Tl c Star says it 1* a disgrace to the staye, dan insult to the audience. In the third ene of the second act a low assignationhouse is represented. The Guardian deribes it as being as bad as the renowned Bristol-house here, the proprietor of which was recently imprisoned for harbouring prost tutts. The Otago Daily Times characteiists the scene as a poor imitation of fast life nmon° the traviate of New York. The house was crowded, and to-night it is expected to be equally as full, owing to the notice in the Printers at Loggerheads. The members of the Typographical Association appear to have fallen out among themselves. Allan Wright writes to a Northern paper, and states that members of the Association do not endorse the letter of i e Grove the secretary. To-night, another letter appears, signed " Compositor," in the Star statiDg that the remarks made by Le Grove are in the main true. Be says that uhen their trade was prosperous in Auckland, compositors thought they ci.uld do as they liked. The writer says, that, on many occasions, in the Herald office, out of a companionship of fifteen men, only five turned L to work to get out an eight-page paper ; and I may say tuat ne champion of the Auckland compositors was conspicuous by his absence on the above-mentioned occasions.