CARTERTON

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 269, 20 September 1879, Page 2

CARTERTON

r [from our own correspondent] September 19th. '' The Florence entertainment last night, as '- far as the performance mas c ■ncerned, was an undoubted success,! ut I regret to say, the audience was somewlp tsmall, and the house nothing like what these superior articles should have drawn. The company e were assisted by Mrs Williams, and most j ably did she fulfil her part, as piar.iste. Shu does what is such a recognized ads' junefc to the successful carrying out of air operatic performance; plays up to the sitigers, not to win laurels for herself. In this, as in „ther entertainments in which b I have known her to take part, she works e for the success of the house, not to display her own artistic powers, which arc un--3 tloiilitctlly of the very first water. Her :1 execution is perfect, and she thoroughly s understands the use of the pedals, which too many of the public performers who come before us have not the full mastery r of, We have many who profess to be an fait at the instrument, but it is but few who can as faithfully and regardless of self perl'o in then part, as Mrs Williams did last night, Unfortunately, the instrument she was performing on, was a most wretched one, and I would strongly recommend the Hall Company (the directors of which, by-the-bye, 1 hold a meeli'ig to obtain a de- , cent pi.aio, and have it tuned up at correct concert pitch, with as little delay as possi- ' bio. We claim to have a good hall, but t that little dungeon artistes have to perform in at Fealhctsion has a piano for the ' use of those who may engage the hall, i such as can't be found hereabouts., The . duet between Messrs Florence and Prown- ' ing, " The T-Jrave Old Oak" by Mr G. ' Dillon (a local Christy celebrity) and the , duet between Mr and Mrs Florence-, in the early part ot the evening, were all ' worthy of record ; but Mr Browning's s " Village Blacksmith" was rendered , in a style such as Weiss in his happier days could hardly have surpassed, and the well known tenor solo from Maritana I " Let Aie like a Soldier Fall," evoked a , tumultuous applause for Mr Florence; while Mrs Florence ably filled the somewhat arduous task of prima, donna through , the evening. The eutericimment concluded with "The Chelsea Pensioner," and ''La Rose dAuvurgne," in which the . Company again had accorded to them the pecans of praise tliey had previously won in the valley, I must not leave out one incident, of the evening the performance of the Sailors' hornpipe by Mr J. T, Mahony another of the members of our local Chrisfcys, I am sorry to say that larrikinism in its . most objectionable form is gaining ground in Carterton, but at the same time as some of ihnse who have gone in for the freaks that have lately occurred in our midst may perchance to see your issue from time to time, I can state that a vigilant watch is instituted by some eight or ten of our citizens, and that any defaulters caught will at once bo brought forward and made to answer for their misdeeds before the Resident Magistrate or before our local justices. A mere boyish joke one can excuse, but when the acini of a few foolish fellows entails damage to property, and loss on tho more orderly part of the community, the delinquents will have only themselves to blame, if they find they have to pay the piper to a tune they did not anticipate, The sub-commit tee of the Pastoral Association hold another meeting at Mr Edmund's offices, to-morrow, to make further arrangements as to the annual show, and to let the grounds.