The Remenyi Concert.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 126, 2 May 1885, Page 3

The Remenyi Concert.

We remind our readers that the celebrated Hungarian violinist, Remenyi, will perform m the Town Hall, Pahnerston, Qn next Tuesday evening for one night only* It is almost unnecessary to recommend such an artist as this, and praise becomes almost fulsome of one whose powers are so widely known and appreciated. But the whole teuor of the critiques which have appeared m every place that Rernenyi has visited is so unusually unanimous m his flattery that we quote a few a paragraphs from our exchanges. " The more we see aud hear of this wonderful artiste (says an Auckland paper) the more are we convinced that his like has never been before an Auckland public. Whether playing classical or popular music, he holds his audience spell bound m his giant grip, and during a long twenty minutes' solo not a sound can be heard, his audience being mute and still, showing the wonderful hold the performer has over them. Last night's concert was certainly one of the raoßt enjoyable of the serits, the house being well filled, aud the audieuce eventually bent on a night'« thorough enjoyment. There is as much curiosity about the man ns his music. What manner of geuius is this Reinetiyi, who has thrilled vast audiences all over the world, for a generation, and who, with hiß fiddle as a field-marshal* batoo, is seekingother worlds to conquer? An unpretending, rather undersized old man, modestly dressed m an artiste's velvet coat, with loose sleeves and bared wrists, round oue of which peeps out a gold filagree bangle. But the face of the man— that is the study. Remenyi is a Liszt or a Mozart, fir some other old master, who has stepped down into this mundane sphere from a familar engraving on canvas." . ■ ■ ■

We learn that Pastor Gaustad has been wonderfully successful m his treatment of a protracted case of rheumatism, by which the sufferer was completely prevented from locomotion. After a very short period of homeopathic treatment all the worse symptoms disappeared, and the woman is now going about nor usual avocations, entirely free from pain, and rejoiced at her convalescence. We learn that the Government are m communication with a firm of sawmillcrs m Palmerston m reference to the supply of a large quantity of totara timber which is required for fortification purposes. It is more than probable that several extensive orders will be put m hand for immediate execution during the forthcoming week.