FANCY FAIR AT GREYTOWN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3672, 26 November 1890, Page 2

FANCY FAIR AT GREYTOWN.

_ The Bazaar and Indoor F6te hold m the Palace Hall, Greytown, jesterday afternoon and evening by the ladies of St Luke's Qaild, in aid. of the fundi of their ohurch, proved to h a prosperous and popular undertaking, The total monetary receipts, forty-five pounds, provo tlia "" - ■ first qualification and the largo number present, for there mußt have 'Tbeen three or four hundred persons in the hill off an on, bears out the - jeeond conclusion.

The large room was prettily decorated with nikau palniß, ferns and evergreens,. and looked exceedingly nice, The stalls, of which there were fiye, wore ranged on each side in bays under the galleries, and draped with curtains, art.muslins, and so forth they looked very nioe, Tho refreshment stall, in particular, was well arranged, and the idea o£ having small tea tables in a recess at tho side was tasteful and pretty. The large assortment of articles displayed for sale, ranking frorn the purely ornamental to the seriously useful, formod a collection very pleasing to the eyo and correspondingly alluring to the pocket. The flower stall, a perfect* wealth of bloom and colour, was a oharming crescent-shaped bower neat the entrance, and in the cornsr, bcsido the door, was. pitched the traditional tontof the gipsy. It bora the fateful legend "Your fortune told! The 6ip3y says ' come in," We did not venture within its sacred precincts, but we beliove'it was quite the correct thing, The representative of the wandering race waß bewilderingly attired.in fantastic' garb, her incantations and confidences woro of tho most awos inspiring and impress™ nature, and as regards' general effects inside the tent; thero was deoidedly mora mystery than light." The gipsy was a great contrast to her neighbour, the bombaßtio and pretonsioua "Professor O'Leary," wjMiis worldfamed gallery of Higb/lrt.. Tho professor employed two noisy individuals to stand at his door and descant upon the merits of the wonders within. One of them, attired in a toss-up between the costume of a third'rate Chinese Pirate _ and an Italian Brigand; energetically and.incessantly pounded away at a big drum, and produced the most awful row that fearful instruy ineiit can possibly be induced to make. The. other advertised " the show' only with his voice, but oh, with such/ a voice! Visitors wenVinside /to escape the din,, and when once in, the pleasure of ooming out amply repaid the, small outlay ffhioh ; had secured a ! tioket :! for thia'Vartistia [fraud,, Professor O'teary;c(esc(jbeo)

his treasureswith pride andeloqucnt^ . s and listeners tried hard to feel that :'.;,:• v*ey were duly impressed with all ;; ■" ■ Hbey saw, nud feel that their money . , had been well spent. The Bazaar Post Office was, of course, in full ■\ swing, and unpaid correspondence j- was received almost with pleasure, I a very rare fate for it. i The following ladies presided at the !!; stalls, and the receipts of each stall i; wo as shown :-(ieneral stall - ■jr.- Mcsdaines Tully, Wyatt, and Miss I Hastwell, £lB 4s (id; Fnnoy stall- { Misses Wyctt and Jackson, £lO 8s 6d; Apron stall-Mrs I? 11 Wood, and j • the Misses King jnd Wakelm, £6 j '. 15s 8d; Flower stall-Mrs Izard and j Miss Tate, £Blss-Id; Refreshment ! stall—Mrs Fullor, Mrs Downos, and ! Miss Fuller, £4 0s8d; fortune. ir teller—Mrs Girdltstone, .£) 5?; Pro- |, lessor O'Leaiy and his assistants—--1 Messrs W 0 Nation, A H Mackay, ! andWATate, £153; floormonoy, > £5 4s Gd, Total receipts, £4llos 8(1. Tableaux vimntt formed tho great -VT a " mc '' on "l l ho evening, anil the ". • various representations woro highly successful, (!omio,Witnnental, and ■ tragio subjects ■•cvideJtly are better \ai|)led for impromptu production ' tllSi historical events. Tho following ■ tableaux were.prcsented: "Walls havo Ears"'—Alis3 Tully, Mr A H Mackay, and Mr W A Tate. "Bluobeard"- ' Mr A. L. Webster, Mr A. 11. M ackav ' and Misses I). Nation, E Wyott, S. Jackson, Tate, F. Wood and York. 1 "Queen Eleanor and-Fair }Rosamond," Mrs Trotman and Miss ' Jup'a Smith; "Three Young Maids," i Mrs Izard, Miss J Smith and Miss '; King; "Three Old Maids," Mrs Skeet, Mrs Scale, and Mr Ernest Porritt; "Love's Disguise," Mrs Skeet, Miss Tale, and Mr KW Tate; "Brittania and Her Daughters," Mrs DCameron and the Misses. Porritt, Wisou, Tate and York, The Eev, Mr Wjutt introduced each tableaux with a few very apt and happily expressed explanatory remarks, and ! Messrs Duff and Webster gave conIsiderable help in the stago arrangements. The bazaar, we should not omit to mention, was kindly formally opened Mr WO Buchanan, The Greytown Private Blind, wbiii provided excellent music, did so"free of charge, under Mr J Maguire, the new bandmaster,