PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3747, 27 February 1891, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Typhoid fever has made its appearance in the district. I learnt to-day that Mr George Mexted, of the Toritea Road, had been attacked by it, but I understand his case is fortunately not of a virulent nature.

A company advertising as a "surprise party" held a general entertainment here last evening. They were a surprise—rather a disagreeable one. A mixture of acrobatic tricks, christy minstrel business, and a few songs made up the programme, and met with very indifferent appreciation at the hands of the audience. A small dance completed the proceedings. Burlesque of Aladdin. The Burlesque of Aladdin, which is to be presented at the Theatre Royal and to be performed by a company of juveniles this (Friday) evening is, as many persons know, a Comical rendering of the original story, and abounds in playful witticisms. The scene opens with the Emperor's tea room, in which the Vizier's son makes overtures to the King for his daughter's hand : the King being deeply in the Vizier's debt consents. The second scene, a street in Pekin, introduces Abanazer the magician, who is on the lookout for the magic lamb. He accidentally makes the acquaintance of the widow and Aladdm and does net leave them until he convinces them he is their long lost relation. The jewelled cavern is then shown and Abanazer gets Aladdin to enter it, to get the lamp, he himself being afraid to; but his designs are frustrated, and he has to leave the cave without the lamp, which falls into the handsof Aladdin. : A demon then appears and transports Aladdin to his mother's cottage, where they find out that the possession ot the lamp gives them untold riches, which the widow makes use of to get an introduction to the king's palace, and asks the king for his daughter's hand for her son! Aladdin. She carries her proposal in the king's palace ; and the first act closes on all parties happy, but the Vizier and bis son, ' The ourtaiq agaiu rises in the exterior of Aladdin's palace and introduces Abanazer, distinguished as a Jew pedlar, selling lamps, his design being to get the magic lamp from Aladdin. The Princess here comes out of the palace and agrees to exchange an old lamp for a gold one. Tho old lamp turns out to be the magic lamp, which Abanazer seizes, possession of which empowers him to transport the palace to the desert of Africa, which is done instantly, the scenery changing in a moment of time. The Emperor and the widow oome to pay a viai| tci Alladin and find the palace anil its iqmates slap gone ; but Aladdin with the help of the magio ring is able to follow them to Africa, where they find Abanazar and the princess. Here the magician meets the fate he richly deserves, being run throuoh oy the Emna ror> D-;; oe) an <i Aladdin. The aid of the lamp is agftfn called, and tfcp v?l}ole lot taken back to China, where everyone is made happy. The whole finishing with an illuminated scene called "The feast ofiianterng."