DR. CARR.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 308, 18 September 1875, Page 2

DR. CARR.

Notwithstanding the rain which inopportunely fellion .Thursday evening last;' the fitirfe of Sris popular lecturer and phrenologist drew a very fair.audience.to the Masonic Hall. 5 The subject for that evening’s discourse was “ courtship and Matrimony,” and we need- hardjy'say| that Dr. Carr’s eloqubiiee combined" with an easy, gr.Tceful, and a ready command of language, aided in placing thb various states of single blessedness,, andr connubial bliss, with their opposites, before his hearers in such an artistic manner, as to be at ojiee pleasing, effective, aud appropriate. Dr. Carr is evidently a well-read, deep-thinking man ; he is iljtimately acquainted with the subtleties, as well as the passions and sublimities of which the human heart is capable of giving expression, and we deeply regret that we have not space at our disposal to give even an outline of his theme which was attentively listened to, and warmly acknowledged. The lecture was followed by “ a feeling of bumps,” several residents ascending the stage in response to the Doctor’s invitation. As far as observation is concerned, the chief characteristics were mainly correct, facetious illustration of them causing much amusement to the audience. After tlie interval a short lecture on mesmerism was delivered, and the seance commenced with three subjects, whose antics, while under entire subjection, were highly corroborative of the mesmerist’s power. One of the duties a subject had f.o perform was to fancy fie had a swag of gold, and to proceed to the Union Bank to deposit it, while another subject was told off as a polieeman, to follow and arrest him. Subject No. 1 having got the ,gtart of jthe policeman, ap~jexeiting Rebase the*.resu}f, jyad a.,£ria and. determined opposition was made in the street, the man with the gold holding ’out resolutely until tlie arrival of the Doctor who had Eim marched back again on to the stage. Several other successful trials were made, and the audience sent home entirely delighted. Dr. -Carr announced that ho will gU’A- his lasL.-entertaiumqHt ; iu,, Gisbcirne, tq-n;gbf ;k.jhd, i£..rqqji.gMed, will lecture gratuitously, to-morrow in the Masonic Hall, on “ Christ th’e Great Apostle of Nazareth.” This subject alone should draw a good audience, to say —nothing —of the masterly, yvay in jvhichi Jt will be. handled.