THEATRICAL.

Evening Star, Issue 3688, 17 December 1874, Page 2

THEATRICAL.

Anion" the passengers from San Francisco by the (Jyphrenes were Mr and Miss Amy Stone, who were proceeding to Sydney and Melbourne to fulfil engagements with Mr Geo. Coppin, The hands of Mr Coppin, however, arc at present so full that letters received by Mr Stone induced him and his daughter to remain in Auckland for the present. They will play a season in New Zealand before proceeding to Australia, The Cyphrenes, moreover, had quite a number of musical celebrities on board. _ Among them were the Baker Comedy Hibernian Company, who give an entertainment ilhi§trafve of Ireland, her songs, scenery, and legendary lore; and a party of artists, male and female, styled the Howarth Comedy Company, their speciality too, being Hibernian. A clever ventriloJuist, Mr E. D. Davies, from the London ’olytcohnic and Nihlq’s Garden, New York, accompanied by his daughter’ a clever pianisfce, wap also on hoard, under engagement to Mr John Banuett, of Sydney. Lastly, among the notorieties was Mrs Carrie Rickards, who appears to have loft her Husband in San Francisco to proceed possibly to England, and returned ah>ne to Sydney, She distinguished herself, it appears, on the passage, in imitation of the Zavistowski girls at Sandhurst, in Victoria, where they whipped with a parasol, in the street, a loose-tongued solicitor. The ‘Cross’ says of her On crossing the Line the usual ceremonies in honor of Father Neptune were observed., and, as usual gave rise to much amusement, and tendered to relieve the monotony of the voyage. One of the ladies on board was annoyed, and finding that one of her silk gowns was slightly damaged by a few stains, immediately accused her fellowpassenger of having done it, stating that she knew it had only been done for spite, and produced a pflmvv.lfip, with which she indicted one or two cuts on the Hack of the astonished passenger, who quickly wrested the lethal instrument from the dame ; apd, paying done so, explained to but tp nig ptfyer fallow-passengers —that he was blaipebess ip the matter, a statement which, as we are informed, was accepted as truthful.