The Steele-Payne Bellringers.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 3, 3 June 1899, Page 2

The Steele-Payne Bellringers.

Those old Kew sJpahncT favourites t]m oiicjinai Payne Fanuly, oi as they now choose to term themselves, the SU'Gk'-I\ivne Bellr'iiifrers, wJI apppni at the Oddfellows' H ,11 on Monday next, and should ha able to rely upon a lnrg" audience, nnd upon the reception that i j invariably extended to old and wpll-truni sfcag\) fftvouiitws. Tlie pi'o^ramin^ to bj preseulod is RVignjarlv ai.traativf 1 , nnd is high class in its character. Bmco their last appearance here in 1394 they hare visited Grent i ]jiit'»,in and Ko-'lh AfL'ipa, where they i very soon e^Lib ishud tham^olvea as grpafc ta^oniiti's, as. they til ways have b3on in Aubtiah-^ &n<l Now Zenla.nd* Tlicir pro-s notices at-e inumably l-i'^h!y eulogistic. The Standard and D'^gqerb' Nawa, Johamieabiug, Transvaal (and tins is a notice > giejeed from matiY equally fialteringfr says oi the compnny ;; — ■ ] " I'h 13. talented troupe, which it willhe rptuembcfod toured the colony ] some three ypfirs ago", now consists of j fpur Hiil^Ses, M^as Liazie Payne, MissH

Kate MaW, Mr Ihlph Rfce^s, Mr James Williinn. The thra-7 firs 6 named five imnnb-rs of tha old troup\ the latter is a naw a< i q ustlian. Mr' WilharaVs chief talent 13 apo f .yjrfnl and malodio'is biss voice, cicjlisutiv 7 trained and und. j r p^rfjcD conti'ol. Miss Lizzie tin I Kito are eh tnni.'itj ladies with nnrnorona tdknts. 13 >hli hava in j.'ol'o is vo'jes, h >th nliy 10strnrneats of wnious sorU and sbapoi, and both f)-re successiuf m kj 'p)ng tlio n.iiUonco a'nnsptl and ,pleas> i J. As to Mr Ralph rfiec j l3. to b-jlaoltl hi"i ou the st.T'j ia to 1)3 inp.Unttblv amused ILs nwin c r, q^i'io as m H'ij as his l'eiid-jring' of various o voni "on™!, kopfc tlie house m onp p^al oClinghW. His sinking oT "Four lino^rs and ft thinnb " is soiTWbia^ v.'v.oh sh >uul not l>' j im-'-ed. Tlu rdinaiiibwiuca of it ■■vill i."vve to pi'ovoke a s«u Io ion^ aft. i v I\fr Steolo and liis tioape ai-rf across the l>*in_v ocsan." The coinpiiv at pi "sent conssisto of "Mr lialph yccole and Ins wile (M(->sf J w/^!e Payn-i) and son Master Clvid« S",< oie (6 voois oUO. M\^ X ,te M '.ii. ;, Miss Giii'ti) Droinlev (botli old ins 'ihois of the oi'i^/nal P.ivne Fnoiilv), MrOaincs YvY'hams, b^s^o pi'jfrnjdo^ I'ilc of Chiofl Ilo\ "il, Xcv , ] ( jM<j!a.ud ; a. id Mr J. Morv:s, iemn* i.ml »oid nu'LiMisl, n natr. p of JJiltirat, V.'otnv<n ; th< j two la-^t nanud ov j n'iw inakiuy tlteir fir,t Vi-.il to Mew Zealand.