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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5116, 16 August 1877, Page 1

Amusements rjp HEATH E ROYAL Lessees Messrs. Howard & Co. Business Manager ... Mr. Charles Hillsdek Stage Manager ...Mr. H. Stoneham THIS EYE \'ING. THURSDAY, AUG. Iff, GRAND OPENING NIGHT or THE AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. A EEW ITEMS FOR THIS EVENING : ONZ A L O The Peerless, in his original act entitled Aerial Evolutions. This is the most daring and exciting performance ever seen by mortal man. GIBBONS AND DAVENPORT In their original realistic sketch of slave life, entitled “ Who owns de Clothes-line ?” ROBT. SCOTT Will render “Sounds from Ireland.” MISS GRACE GARLAND, With her Album of New Songs. MR. GEORGE DAVENPORT, The Clever German Character Vocalist, as “ Our German Emigrant.” OLD GIBB, The Funniest Man Alive, will inform all about “ Times Way Back Yonder.” First time of “ The Doctor’s Clerk; or, ChemiOptical Experiments.” Note. The above-mentioned efforts are new, and were never rendered in New Zealand before. Doors open 7.30 ; felicity will eventuate at 8 o’clock. Carriages may be ordered for 10.30. J. E. SACKETT, Advance, Agent. QDD FE BLOWS’ HALL THIS (THURSDAY) EVENING, AUGUST Iff. Fifth Exhibition of THOMPSON’S GREAT SOUTHERN DIORAMA OF THE , AMERICAN WAR. GIFTS ! GIFTS ! ! GIFTS Ml The leading Prizes for this evening will consist of a Tea and Coffee Service (four pieces) govereign Electro-Silver Centre Fruit Stand Walnut-wood Whatnot Silver Biscuit Box Handsome Pair of Vases And eighty or ninety other prizes Prices of Admission.—-Front seats (three sealed envelopes), 35.; gallery (two sealed envelopes), 2s. ; back seats (one sealed envelope), Is.; children half-price te front seats'and gallery. ' Doors open at half-past 7; overture at 8 sharp. SATURDAY, August 18, Grand Matinee, commencing at three o’clock, when every child attending the Diorama will receive a present. , Descriptive Lecturer ... Mr. W. H. Thompson Agent ... ... 1 ... Mr. W. H. Metcalfe EW PRINCESS TORY-STREET. Lessee ... ... ... Mr. Tom Hargetts. Stage Manager .... ... Mr. Sam Pools. ; r , NOTICE. In consequence of the general arrangements of the above Theatre not being completed, the Operatic and Burlesque Troupe WILL NOT APPEAR TO-NIGHT, as announced. DUE NOTICE will be given of the OPENING NIGHT !! ! w ELLINGTON SKATING RINK ALWAYS OPEN. Admission—ls. GREAT ATTRACTION. Meetings THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY .LIMITED,. N 0 T ICE. The Fourth Annual General Meeting of the Company will be held at the Head Offices, Hereford-street, Christchurch, on FRIDAY, 17th AUGUST, 1877, at noon. Business ; To receive the Directors’ report and balance sheet. To elect four Directors. To elect two Auditors. By order of the Board of Directors. H. SET.WYN SMITH, General Manager. Christchurch, 31st day of July, 1877. Notice. —Qualified shareholders desiring to be elected Directors must leave a written notice to that effect, addressed to the General Manager, at the head offices of the company, Hereford-street, Christchurch, at least seven clear days prior to the meeting. Proxies must be lodged at the head offices of the company forty-eight hours before the meeting. w ELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL , SOCIETY. MEETING at Colonial Museum oat SATURDAY, the 18th inst,, at 8 p.m. PAPERS : “ The Effect of Radiant Central Heat on Climate in past Geological Times,’' by W. T. L. Travers, F.L.S., M.H.R. “ Arrow Flight of the Maoris,” by Coleman Phillips, &c., &o. R. B. GORE, Secretary. Q) UARTERLY LICENSING MEETING. NOTICE is hereby given that the sitting of the Licensing Court for the following Districts, CITY OF WELLINGTON, Lambton District, , Te Aro District, Thorndon District, Porirua District, Karori-Makara District, Advertised for the 4th day of SEPTEMBER, 1877, will be adjourned untill TUESDAY, the 11th day of SEPTEMBER, 1877, at 12 o’clock in the forenoon. Eb. BAKER, Clerk of the above Licensing Courts. Wellington, August 13. ILBIR N I B.