PORT MOLYNEUX READINGS.

Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 169, 5 October 1877, Page 6

PORT MOLYNEUX READINGS.

;The : mont.hly -readings, and; concert, for L the ; benefitj pf.the school ; funds took! plafie in -the> ; Hallj,* jßoi-.t- Mpiyneux, on Friday evening, r The .vveatlAeiP,\yashipst favourable, but -.owing**, , to similar' social, gatherings ;rhaving.a occurred. , .during everj^.preyibus'.o'vening.the attendance* ■was, scantier than usual.,, This fl was the hi.ore -to be; ;regre,tted, as j's^ch |a*display K ■of superior. ..talent .-• has,-. neyer i> b,een : .ex- i c r e^ded,,at!any imeetingSj in -the! same: '■glace. -yySiyAi Ah^wiMeMllQ .was voted'

to the/ .cjiair; ; i ;.JJiuringr;tlie-?;eyening jhe ;f uljy * j justi fied * theY con fid ence reposed in 'hifn. •■'•• "-'-*'> A-AiAA. AyAi A'a.'A .A A- AI

Business commenced with tne ; song "Hard Times'* come again r.o More/] from Mr W. Wilsom Mr Shiels foi- I lowed 1 - with a reading' 'from thei'reporto'ire.of " Mansie^ Waugh." . During the i evening Mr Shiels gave another readihg^jl both full of the raciest humour, from the same* source'; and. -a'S^ong;- «f 'l<he' JoyGreen." , A recitation " The Beautiful" Snow,"' wks" rendered* by Mr GeorgeStevens, with the deepest pathos, and, with splendid elocution; . iTwb. readings' : were given, by .Miss Paterson, and readings throughout the evening were given ;by'M t essrs*' M'Ewan, ' Hay,-: J; Stevens, and. W... Wilson. . But undoubtedly the chief attraction ofthe evening was con-, tributed' by - th'o assistance rendered by Miss Mullins and Mr A. Jowitt. The former was encored several" times, and in "a-Biimber'ofsOngs, ".The Gipsy's yearning,". " Scotland's Hills," " Erin-go-Bfagh," '&c, displayed *a' power of expression and a. command. and range of voice not, often enjoyed ,in country places. Mr Jowitt is' irresistible in the comic- : veinj'f'and it -seemed -as ; if his audience could not have enough of him, though his readiness to "oblige and to answer 'the repeated calls made upon' him, .proved; .quite equal to the emergency. In his " Ratcatcher's Daughter," " Low-backed Jpar," and others, he carried'everything before him. ( The , entertainment closed . with the . "Queen's Anthem," ' by Mr Wilson,' after which dancing was kept agoing to the small hours ofthe morning*.