Levy's Leaving.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2803, 7 February 1878, Page 3

Levy's Leaving.

The exit of Levy, the cornet player, has not been quite so brilliant as was bis entree into this city. He had arranged to give one of his popular concerts last night at Cambridge. Miss Pitts and others of bis company were booked through by tbe 7 a.m. train to Hamilton, Levy stating tbat be bad engaged a special train to follow laJer in tbe day. After leaving tbe members suspected that a screw was loose somewhere, aud it was agreed that Signor Gfiorza should return from Mercer and report on tbe situation. On arrival -ho made enquiries at the Auckland Station what time " Levy's Special Train " was going to tbe Waikatq, and of course found such was a hoax., that no Levy's special train was going, and that tbe members of the company who bad been sent to Cambridge in advance of the great cornet player, were cruelly duped. A balance of wages was unpaid, and Levy, cornet, wife, baby, and all bad engaged passages by the City of New York, expecting to leave at 4 o'clock in the afternoon ; newspaper i and other monetary obligations were treatdfU^y the " greatest living instrumentalist" with an amount of indifference which indicated his supreme contempt for anything-or anybody excepting himself and his brazen instrument. In short, Levy was going .ib bolt I Unfortunately for him, there'are in Auckland various officers and institutions of law designed for tbe "special benefit" of such levanters, and these were set in motion with* no uncertain sound, bringing such a legal blast about his ears as to not only eclipse his "Russian air with variations," but caused him. to "mind his stops." He was not asked to answer an encore with " Shall auld acquaintance be forgot," but was commanded in the unyielding style of his friend the Eussian Emperor to " stand and deliver," which he reluctantly did to all who were fortunate enough to get wind of his intentions. He has gained an unenviable notoriety in the colony, and as a grand finale sends his company up the country without paying their salaries, and then bolts. We are informed that an uncle in Sydney had charge of Lory's trophic? until the great cornet player could redeem them. These having been rescued, were brought by the Hero, and having with him all that was dear in this world, he has left his company lamenting— not the absence of bis refined phiz—nor his trumpet, but of dearly earned money—and broken contracts. We believe, however, they will be able to form a capital concert company, and turn their misfortunes to good account. Poor Dick Thatcher, travelling regardless of expense in the South preparing for the Southern tour of the great cornetist, is' left to wrestle alone with disappointed hotel keepers and theatre proprietors.— Auckland Star.