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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2309, 30 September 1870, Page 2

Supreme Court. The case of Eegina v. White was not concluded when our reporter left the Court. The Princess Theatre.—We are glad to learn that the company under Mr Willis’s direction will arrive by the Gothenburg, and that the business of the Theatre will be resumed on the earliest possible day. Mr Willis is making every effort to secure support. He may be said to be redecorating the Theatre, and in some respects to be remodelling it. The entrance to the dresscircle, instead of being a lane between two dirty walls of corrugated iron, is in course of being rc-altcred. Elegant ■ arches arc constructed, and the sides are panelled and ornamented ; the ladies’ cloak room will be made comfortable, the Theatre is cleaned and decorated ; there will be new scenery, new machinery, and every effort made to render it an attractive place of amusement. “The New Zealand Church News.” —We have received the first number of a new paper published at Christchurch under this title. It is intended to supply a need felt by members of the Church of England in New Zealand, who require a newspaper specially to represent their interests. It contains sixteen pages, and we believe will be published monthly. The present number contains several very interesting articles : home news of the Churches in England and Ireland; missionary nows; articles by Bishops Wordsworth, Perry, and others; a chapter for Sunday school teachers, for young churchmen, and for children. Should future numbers be equally interesting with that before us a long and useful career maybe predicted,Tea Meetings.—The following we extract from the Melbourne Leader: — Parsons are nearly unanimous in condem*

ning theatres • and races ; they are not quite so nearly unanimous about balls and lotteries, but it was generally supposed that they looked with approbation upon tea-meetings. That mildest of all forms of dissipation has at last fallen under the ecclisiastical ban, the Kev. Mr Sergeant, of Sale, having gone so far as to attribute “the fall of so m:my females from the path of virtue” to attendance at them in common with the other snares above enumerated. We should bo sorry to think so lightly 'of the ladies of Gipps Land as to suppose that the rev. gentleman is not laboring under a delusion. If it is not safe to go to a tea meeting, where else can one go, unless it be out of the world ?

Mu White’s Concert. — Although the programme for the concert last night should have secured a fuller room than assembled at the Masonic Hall, there was a fair attendance, and those present were well rewarded by the music provided for them. Mr White opened the concert by a fantasia by Smith, which was followed by a ballad, “The beauty of the valley, ’ sung by Mr E. Towsoy. A piano duett between Mr White and Master Solomon, secured an encore. The trio, “Turn on, old time,” by Mrs White, and Messrs Towsey and West, was very well sung ; but Mrs White’s songs, “ Think of me,” and “The Messenger,” were the gems of the vocalism in the first part, and the llute obligato accompaniment by an amateur, added much to the cflcct of the first. To our thinking, the violin and piano duet, “ C’cst unc larme,” by Messrs Fleury and Mr Rcichardt, was the best of the instrumental performance. In the second part there was a varied selection of instrumental and vocal music by various performers, Mr White, M. Floury, and Master Solomon, appeared to great advantage Mrs White’s rendering of “ Come, oh sleep, ” with violin obligato by M. Floury, was beautifully sung, and the trio, “ Through the world wilt thou fly,” secured an encore. One circumstance in connection with this concert deserves remark A great deal has been talked about music latterly, and some pains are taken to teach it in our schools. It might naturally, have been expected that the best encouragement would have been given to those able to perform the highest class of music. Bat wc are constrained to say that bad a few negro melodies, with a tambourine and a tin whistle, formed the staple of the entertainment last night, interspersed with a few negro antics and grotesque dresses, the probability is the room would have been crammed. It is time wc learnt better.