MR. J. P. ARMSTRONG'S LECTURE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 759, 3 November 1876, Page 2

MR. J. P. ARMSTRONG'S LECTURE.

Mr Armstrong, in the Town Hall, Cly^e, on Tuesday evenin'g last, delivered a highly amusing lecture, entitled “ Earliest Recollections of the Australian and Hew Zealrfnd Goldfields.” The lecture, or rather live of events, which lasted about and & and a half, was sufficiently interesting b rivet the ‘attentiori'of his audience ; and the various incidents of colonial digging life in the “ early days,” told in a free, easy, yet forcible manner, cleaily shewed that t'he narrator was an eye witness, if not a participator in each. In the hands of mariy, the bare narration of incidents in one’s life would be void of interest, with Mr Armstrong. however, it is full, and from thefirst, having thoroughly ingratiated hrinself with his hearers he makes his trials theirs, hence the rapt attention given. One swallow neither makes a swallow, nor does the delivering of one or two lectures make a perfectlecturer, and wn venture the opinion that if Mr Armstrong practises, be will yet become as popular as 'ihany who presume more than the subject of these remarks. One point'in favor of Mr Armstrong’s letturesfifoneis wanted) is that, everything!* from the life,’not the dark, ugly anil loathsome side as depicted by the Rev. lecturer P. P. A new, but more -resembling the the bright'happy thoughts of Dickens, with a rich vein of humor permeating throughout.