MELBA OPERA COMPANY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10411, 4 September 1911, Page 5

MELBA OPERA COMPANY.

GREAT REOEPTIOiN IN SYDNEY. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock). SYDNEY, September 2. The Melba Opera Company opened in Sydney to a. packed and emtlhusiastbio audience. 'Tlhie. prochictLon, was a splendid success. The takings exceeded £ISOO, w'hkOi constitutes a record. . People oommienioed to gather a,t the theatre at seven o'clock in the anorniiaig. Thre wo® a dense crowd and a great rush, wfhen -the .theaitre opened at two' o'olock. The time .till the performance commenced) was occupied with impromptu, oomioemtis', tllue theatre management providing ten.

BILLIARDS. SIEVENSON~LINDiRUM. (Received Last Ndght, 5.5 o'clock). SYDNEY, September 2. Stevemson defeated Lindrum in the billiard maftcih* by 4298. AEROPLANINC. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock). PARIS, September 3. M. Fourney aenopillanied, confeuous--1 yfor ll£ hioun&, covering 450J miles, at the- Bue Aerodrome.

AN AVIATOR KILLED. (Received Laisifc JNaghtt, 5.5 o'clock.) NEW YORK, September 2. At Norton, Kansas, an. aviator warned Frisker fell a, diis'tanice of lOQiit., when, giving an exhibition flight. Hlne motor pinned hiim to the ground, crushing his. left sdde, and ho died in a few minute®. FnLsk&r had fallen 40ft. on ihe previous' day, but wias unhurt.

A R.-.L^iIYJ-ROUBLE.

IN THE UNITED STATES,

(Received Last NigM, 6.5 o'clock). NEW YORK, September 2. The meetings between- Mr Krutt iScih/mriitt, general manager of the Harrimian railway lines, and the Employees' Association, relative to the full reaogpitaoni of the Union/, have been frailties*. It is stadl hoped that a strike will be. averted.

TRAIN ROBBERS.

mm) UP AN AMERICAN EX--1 PRESS. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) NEW YORK, September 2. Three robbers (one a negro), hefld up the southern'-bound express train, forty miles from Redding, California. They iblew open the safes and rifled them, and soaped, acompanied by two other robbers,who had ridden' on the roof of the oar.