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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1096, 6 July 1882, Page 2

A meeting of the members of the Gisborns Library was Held last evening. Mr. George Matthewson in the chair. There being so few present it was decided to adjourn for a week, when it is to be hoped that there will be a larger attendance.

The 365th repetition of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan’s JEsthetio comio opera, “ Patience," was produced at tho Savoy Theatre, London, to a house crowded from pit to galleries. Tho drosses are pronounced as the . wonder of the age, the authors personally | superintending their production. The calcu- J lations made respecting this opera shew that j it has been produced 977 times in twelve ■ months (including London, America, and the 1 Provinces) ; 870,000 persons hove paid for | admission, and that £138,000 has been re» ceived for those admissions. It has been to the authors the most profitable of all their works. The Savoy Theatre is lighted by Swan Electric Lamps.

Messrs Dickons and Evans, printers, Great Now Street, London, are driving one qM their printing machines by electricity. is the first record of this science ns a mo'or to printing machinery. It reasonably expected that gas and steam lie entirely superseded by electricity its prnelienbility line been When it is considered that tho power this machine is generated a mile away, anM conducted along a wire, we cannot guess limit, to which this now and startling stride In scieneo will take us. The storage of thii force is among the later marvels of a marvel, loos ago, Messrs Gilbert and Sulliran are engaged in the production of a now comio opera, founded, as nearly all of those gentlemen's productions arc, on ono of tho Hah Sallads— ll The Fairy Curate i" i 11 Once a fairy, light and airy, 4 Married with a mortal i Men, however, Never, never - Pass the Fairy portal. M Slyly stealing, she to Ealing M Made a daily journey | x There she found him, Clients round him, (Ho was an attorney)." Tho result of the union was a son, " Georgls," who joined the Church as n ourate, and who, being a hybrid fairy, had the enviable power of paying flying visits to his Fairy Mama t Ono fine day his Bishop pops in unexpectedly to an afternoon tea, and discovers Georgia's Mama in wings end short petticoats, and indignantly denounces hor as a lady of the mrys tit ballet. Georgia, greatly incensed by tho Bishop's language to his Mams, " Changed his religion, like a pigeon, And became a Mormon." The story is, of course, altered and elaborated in the opera, but the original plot is as quoted.