AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 44, 17 March 1909, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

CUdIENT Ij. WliAtlCiE.

Mr. ('lenient 1.. Wragge, the renowned astronomer, meteorologist and traveller., ■who will inaugurate u series of grind! popular scientific entertainments at tiie 'I hcatre Koyal, on "Friday evening, is the I possessor uf a beautiful sonorous voice, which he uses to full ell'ect, thus allowing none ol his lucid, scientific descriptions or any of his quaint flashes of' humor to escape hi< hearer*. His de- | scriptive powers have received unstinted praise from press and public in every country he has visited. Indeed, for any

man to hold a vast, native audience. Hindus, breathless ami spellbound and quiet as death for over three hours, as he has done, even though having to talk through an interpreter, is a sign of no mean ability. Though used on his i last visit, the title of hU subject, for | Friday nigiit. "A Voyage through the | t'niverse.'' has been retained by reason of its extreme appropriateness to 'iie ground covered by the subject, but it is said that the matter is entirely new. c Tlie box plan is now open at the Collier 6 and Colonial Piano Company's. Dates .? for this district are advertised el«e- b where. si