STRAND THEATRE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 103, 29 January 1870, Page 7

STRAND THEATRE.

The following amusing extract w& clip from a Cornish paper bearing dateOctober 1837 :— The Strand Theatre has closed a highly successful season with the never-tiring Sam Wetter. Immediately after the performance Hammond delivered the' following humorous farewell address, in character: — "Ladies and GenTrnen — The time for shutting up our house having come at last, I hopes you'll jist allow Sam Teller to say a few words on behalf of the Growernor. Ye don't part vith you because ye vishes it, or because ye likes it, but because ye can't help it — as the folks said yen they feU out of the balloon. The fact is (and its nouse a-mincing the matter), ever since ye commenced our PichvicJcian Peregrinations, and I've bin in my present sitivation, you've been sich wery con* stant wisitors, encouraging all our efforts to amuse you, and never going avay vithout remembering our perquisites, that no yonder ye found it too pleasant to last long — as the laughing gas said yen it ewaporated. To be sure ve've done all in our power to make things comfortable —as the beadle did yen he put the cobbler's legs in the stocks. Our house certainly is ray-ther small, but then, as the maggot said yen he got into the nutshell, its wery snug; and ve're never so happy as yen ve're vaiting on you, as the flies remarked to the grocer; and if von or two of our entertainments have happened to be spil'd in the dressing, vy ye can only say, a& the gen'l'man said yen his hors's eye vas out, it varn't our fault but our misfortin. During the time ye shuts up shop, the Growernor means to make all sorts of improvements, that you may feel yourselves still more at home; for like the flowers in May, ye hope to see you all agin next Easter Monday. Of course, I need not say I shall be here to vait on you ; for my place has been made so werry agreeable, that all my vork's bin but play-ing ; and vatever preferment I may get in a larger house, I shall never for the mere lucre o' gain, forget my old friends here — for arter all, ' home's home, if its every so homely,' as the cricket sung in the chimbly corner. The Gowernor's already commenced j operations ; he's engaged two favourite cooks to prowide the bill of fare ; and in order to prewent breakages, means to follow the adwice of the bull in the chany shop, and look wery ! sharp arter the pieces. And now, having said these here few vords, I've only to return you all our werry best thanks for your kindness, and to vish you all possible health and prosperity, till ye sees you again — as the telescope said to the comet, yen they moved him ' out of the Observatory."

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