ALEXANDRA.

Dunstan Times, Issue 708, 12 November 1875, Page 2

ALEXANDRA.

—o—(FROM CUll OWN CORRESPONDENT.) On Tuesday evening last the entertainment' in aid of the funds of the Dunstan District Hospital, of which due notice has for weeks past been given, came off in the Alexandra Library Building, and without drawing upon the imagination, I can safely say, was an unprecedented success—that is, in respect to the carrying out of the programme. But I was rather astonished to see so limited an attendance, and in fact had it not been for the goodly company from your town, there would have been but a peer house to greet the performers who had assayed the task to please. As it was. the room presented a pleasing appearance, and as a matter of course, all concerned, whether performers or audience, were alike better pleased than if the room was hut half full. A pianoforte was kindly lent by Mr it. Finlay for the aconmpanyis‘s, to whom special thanks are due for his kindness. The entertainment was opened by Mr Chappie reading a most appropriate piece ; followed by Mr oiinmouds, who sang a character song descriptive of the ills life is heir to, and the various remedies—whether it was that the pourtraycr of the character had really suffered from the ills he depicted 1 cannot say, but of f. certainty he presented a most wne-begone appearance, with his long thin lank hair and pointed nose, and sang as if he had. The next on the programme was of a different class ; Mrs Boult, a lady visitor to the district, who sang with exquisite taste, accompanying herself on the piano, also obliging in response to determined applause with an encore. Mr Fin’ lay followed with a reading, which was well received. Next followed Mrs King with a pretty and most pleasing ballad Mr Boos succeeded, singing a serio comic ditty in first class style, which eliciting an oncoro, was repnnded to with another of a similar character. Mr Beattie then sang, followed by Mrs Boult, who again charmed her hearers, Mr Loughnan by’speoial request, accompanying himself, now sang, in a style seldom hoard on an amateur stage, two first-o’ass songs. Beading and song now quickly followed till the programme was expended ; when, after an interval, the laughable farce, “Ample Apology,” was performed, Messrs Whelan, Bice, Morris, and Master Buckley taking the respective parts. The room was now quickly cleared, and dancing vas indulged in for about an hour, thus terminating as pleasant an evening as has been spent in Alexandra for some time.