MISS HARRIET GORDON'S ENTERTAINMENT.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 7, 2 December 1862, Page 2

MISS HARRIET GORDON'S ENTERTAINMENT.

On Saturday evening this talented lady, in coujuction with Mr. J. P. Hyde, gave the first of a series of four entertainments in the new hall of the Victoria Hotel, wMch has been tastefully fitted up for the occasion. Notwithstandingthe inclemency of the weather, the high class character of the entertainment drew together a respectable audience, who testified their approbation by renewed and hearty applause. Miss Harriet Gordon's musical attainments are so widely known over the colonies that it is unnecessary for us t j add that the various pieces were gone through in a style hitherto unknown in Invercargill, and would recommend our readers not to lose such an opportunity of passing a pleasant and instructive half hour with Burns and the Classic Masters.

Last night Miss Gordon was again honored by a brilliant assembly to witness her representation in th-; admirable domestic sketch entitled, A Pair of Pigeons, in which Miss Gordon introduced and Tendered most beautifully the popular ballad composed for England's great tenor, Mr. Sims Reeves, " Good bye, sweetheart, good bye," as also Bishop's celebrated Echo Song. Mr. Hyde's versatile acting brought the piece to a close amid rapturous applause. In a musical selection which followed, Miss Gordon ihowed to a surprising extent the quality and compass of voice in the operatic scena, "While this heart," from the ever popular opera of La Sonnambula ; whilst in the old Jacobite song of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," Miss Gordon complied with the vociferous encore oi the audience, by substituting the well known " Annie Laurie." The entertainment clos-d with a beautiful sketch entitled, The Merton Family, in which. Miss Gordon and Mr. Hyde sustained the characters, without for a single moment allowing the interest of the spectators to be diverted. We observe these talented artistes appear again to-night, and to-morrow for the last time.