amusements. paiNCESS THEATRE, QUEEN’S VARIETY TROUPE. Positively the LAST NIGHT BUT FOUR of this Successful Company, . . The Last Night but Four of Lizzie Watson, Harry Braham, Miss Blanche, Alick O’Brien, Mat Riley, C. T. Baker, Mons. Hamew. No. 5 Programme This Evening. LIZZIE WATSON’S Farewell Benefit on FRIDAY NEXT. Burlesque, PYGMALION AND HIS GAL-O-DEAR. Jerry Wood (Irish Commedian)—First Appearance on Friday Next. Dress Circle, 3s ; Stalls, 2s; Pit, Is. J. GARDNER, Agent. M ASONIC HALL. THIS (Wednesday) EVENING, Feb. 11. Last Four Nights of BACHELDER’S COMBINATION—THE COLOSSEAN PANTASCOPE Of a Tour Through AMERICA, WM. HORACE BENT, The Delineator, will give selections from his Olio of Songs, Character Impersonations, &o. PROFESSOR SAUNDERS, In a Harp Solo, Every Evening, MR H. ILLINGWORTH, The Celebrated Trombone Soloist, Every Evening, MR. C, BUCKINGHAM, Cornetto, Every Evening, H, NORBERG, Musical Director. The Entertainment to conclude with the performance of the Wonderful AUTOMATON SLACK-ROPE VaULTER, The most intricate piece of mechanism ever produced. Admission—Front Seats, 3s ; Second, 2s; Back, Is. Doors open at half-past 7 o’clock; commence at 8 o’clock. Grand Matinee, Saturday, February 14. R. G. BACHELDER, Proprietor. CLAUS AND REKEL CONCERTS. Director Signor Biscaccianti. SIGNOR BISCACCIANTI has the honor to announce that he has made arrangements with MADLLE. JENNY CLAUS, The celebrated Violiniste, for a concert tour through the Provinces, of New Zealand, and that her first performance will take place in this City on or about 20th February inst. MADLLE JENNY CLAUS And Party will arrive by the mail steamer Otago, from Melbourne, when full particulars will be given. ON TUESD AY, February 17th, a LEOTU RE will bo delivered at the MASONIC HALL, DUNEDIN, On SOCIAL LIFE AND POLITICS IN THE WEST INDIES, Bv ROBERT H. BAKEWELL, M.D., Late President of the Medical 'Board of Trinidad, British W. I. Syllabus. —Part I.—lntroductory. First landing; the scene on the wharf ; a fight for the luggage. Our daily life ; "I want my early coffee.” A Barbadian’s idea of an English breakfast. Negro servants and their little ways. Amusements in the tropics. Advantages and disadvantages of a tropical climate. Yellow Jack. “Twenty and twenty-five.” Insect life. The languages of Trinidad, and the races that inhabit it. Negroes : their weddings ; their religions Obeah. Negroes in a rage; the Barbadian use of the razor. Negro conceit and extravagance in dress. Colored people. The heathen and the Christian Chinee. John Ningpo, Esquire, and his christening parties. Interval of Ten Minutes.
Part 11. Hindoos, and other coolies. Immigration into the West Indies. How conducted? How a Crown Colony is governed. Behind the scenes at Government House. Different kinds of governors. Vice-Regal etiquette. French and English in Trinidad. A few words about slavery. Future of the West Indies and position of the negro. Doors open at half-past 7 ; the lecture will commence precisely at 8. Admission, Two Shillings. DANCING CLASSES. ST. GEORGE’S HALL.-Juveniles, Saturdays, from 3to 5. Adults, Mondays, from 7 to 9. Tenns : One Guinea per quarter (commencing from date of entrance). J. KELLY, Professor, From Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. DUNEDIN DANCING ACADEMY. St. George’s Hall. ' MRS HAM ANN begs respectfully to call the attention of the public generally to the following classes : For Adults—Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, from 8 till 10 o’clock. For Juveniles—Saturday Morning, from 11 till 1 o’clock N.B.—The Saturday Afternoon Class will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, from 3 till 6 o'clock. Terms to each Class—One Guinea per Quarter, commencing from date of entrance. MEETINGS. NEW ZEALAND SUBMARINE GOLDMINING COMPANY (LIMITED. AN Adjourned Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company will be held in the Friendly Societies’ Hall, Princes street, Dunedin, on THURSDAY EVENING, the 12th inst., at half-past 7 o’clock precisely. By order of the Board. W. ORAM BALL, Manager. MISS BELL will receive Pupils at her Rooms, Princes street, at their usual hours, from and after this date; and will Resume Lessons at the Girls’ High School on Monday, the 9th instant. Dunedin, February 2, 1874. ■RS STANLEY MARTIN, Teacher i . Music, has Removed from Hanovc street to St. Andrew street, near Fillet street, and is prepared to receive those pupi! who have not commenced their quartei Terms at her residence. BOARD AND RESIDENCE.
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Evening Star, Issue 3424, 11 February 1874, Page 3
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