POLLARD’S OPERA COMPANY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2108, 6 February 1908, Page 2

POLLARD’S OPERA COMPANY.

HIS MAJESTY’S’ TO-NIGHT. To-night Air. Tom Pollard will present for tho first time in Gisborno the fantastic “Isle of Bong Bong,” with its catchy music, sparkling dialogue, gay ballets, and magnificent scenery. The stage pictures, unique in design, are lavishly presented, and the dresses are simply a- riot of coloring harmoniously blended. The comedy abounds with novel and pretty dances, which lose none of their grace by the manner in which they are presented. Taken altogether, it is in one of the brightest productions yet associated with Air. Pollard’s name. “The Isle of Bong Bong” will be produced to-night anil tomorrow night. On Saturday night the management will present "His Highness the Bey” on a scale of magnificence hitherto unattempted in Gisborne.

A mail for Auckland closes this morning at 8 u.m.

It is expected that after visiting .Rotorua the Premier, Sir Joseph Ward, will pay a visit to tho Motu district.

The Wcllington-Naples mail, which was despatched in tho 27 th December, arrived in London on tho night of tho 3rd inst.

Classes in English, bookkoeping, and typewriting are to he hold at tho Tcelmieul school every Tuesday evening; tho instructors hoing Messrs Kinder and Cowan.

The. latest Gazette notifies that Mr. A. O. Stewart, of Gisborne, lias been lieonred as a Native interpreter of tho first grade, and Wirema to Heata, Opotiki. and Mr H. W. Broderick, Tuparoa, as second grade interpreters.

Yesterday 387 rams came to hand from Napior b.v tho steamer Fanny and Toroa. Tho wore consigned to Mesas "Williams and Kettle, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., and Messrs Murray Huberts and Co. for various clients.

B.V the Toroa yesterday there arrived ten rams consigned to Mr. J. Clark, for his Opon station. They are from tho flock of Mr. W. Perry, Masterton. They were purchased at a price of forty guineas each, and arc believed to bo the most valuable rams ever brought to Gisborne. By the same steamer there -arrived 102 Romney rams, from Mr. IV. E. BicL will, Carterton, for Mr. Clark’s Walpaca station.

At tho mooting of tho Fire Brigade last night a notico of motion by Superintendent Townley was considered in reference to "-raising the strength of tho brigade to 25 instead of 20 men as at present, to cope with the larger suburbs owing to the increased water supply. Tho motion was carried subject to tlic -approval of tho Council. The brigade also had a test of the hydrants and hose at Read’s Quay, and with the pressure up to one hundred, pounds the result was considered highly satisfactory.

A pleasant gathering took place last evening at Mrs. Sheen’s, Kaiti, when Mr. C. McKinnon, of the Union Bank of Australia, who is leaving for Auckland, was farewelled by a number of his friends. Mr. F. H. Lawton presided, and in an admirable speech referred to the esteem in which their guest was held, and on behalf of those present handed to Mr. McKinnon a case of pipes. Others present added their tribute to the popularity of the guest of the evening, -and -all joined -in wishing him success in liis new sphere. Mr. McKinnon leaves for Auckland this morning.

Said a Wellington city milkman to a newspaper representative on Wednesday: “I don’t see why milk should go up. I shall not raise the price to my customers, unless the farmer who supplies me raises the wliolesalo price. Perhaps he will do so when he finds the papers saying that the retailers are going to put on another penny a quart. Of course there is a shortage, but it is not so bad as some people would like to make out. They want to raise the price, and so they talk about the dry weather and the bush fires and all that, but they do not mention the new farmers who aro going in for milking.”