FEILDING FANCIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 69

FEILDING FANCIES.

By Old 'Un.

August 6. It has had to be more fancy than fact up this way sinor last I wrote you. "We are lucky if w e get one show per week — and such shows most cf them are ! Now and again a good thing comes along. As an instance, V instance : On Wednesday of this week we had "The Message from Mars"' — most appropriate, in, view of the scareship rumours, and the brilliancy of Mars playing upon the imagining* ot southerner*. " The Message" attracted a very fair attendance, but struck wretched weather. To-night we have a somewhat different diven-ion— a political speech by the Hon. Dr Findlay. On Tuesday last the Boy Preacher (a youth of 19 from Scotland. Chartens by n;im<;) cmi?d up a. three-weeks' mi'sion wirh a lecture om Robert Burns! He will be do.vn jour way presently, and if he rives R B." again, hear ;t.; t. Ho is a cle%er lad, and an enthusiastic Burnsire. A \ery successful produciion of Men<l3*lssohn'ti "Lobgesang" (Hymn of Praise) was given by the Foildinig Choral Society last week. Miss Muriel Bennett, a 17-year-cld Wellington soprano, made a very creditable drhut as a professional singer in the production. Tho tenor eolo wa6 sung by Mr Hutchen, of Hawera, a young vocalistMolinist who goes Homo shortly for tuiWe are to have the Geach-My.vlow DTamauc Conipuny here next Monday in "The Woman Pays." j