A WOEFUL FAILURE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 274, 9 March 1877, Page 3

A WOEFUL FAILURE.

The N'M k'ntiwiwu iVrM.-jf Letter tells tlit; following : " paf-hctic story has been going the rounds of the papers as to the manner in which Waehtel, the great tenor, first became known ami famous. This narrates how lie w is originally a p«'>c cab driver at 'Dresden, and that tms wintry night, as ho Wiia singing to himself upon his box. the audience of the Ctranct Opera began to disperse ; liow the entranced multitude gathered around the unconscious cabby ; liow lit; finished his so to amid a storm of applause ; and how t the very iv xt tiny, a large purse was subscribed to send; Uttu «<•>• tho'O'onsurvatopy a# E*aris.. Mr wlio 1 i-ves over i>u Rincon Hilt, anil who is also a (.<• ermari, was much, affected by this Mtury, and as he, too, had a voice, be determined to 1 >«-< sent to Fans at once. So. on Thursday evening, he waited until the California Theatre began to let out, and, nio timing the h"X of a hack in trout of if. '• Itfteil up his voice and sang. Tim "fc* y*toiis crowd was instantly bushed, and shopped transfixed, as, with dosed eyits, the absorbed singer sat, his whole inspired soul flouting out in glad triumphant noise. The selection by Mr. Suherigler was 'Tommy, make room for your Uncle,' one of the best of its kind, but we regret to say that at the end of the third- verse a brickbat struck Mr. Schengler immediately beneath the right ear, knocking him over the dashboard, following which lie was walked ©*er and his neck stopped upon by tht v thoughtless throng. Mr. fraud abuiit this Wachtel story somewhuav'