MAURICEVILLE NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3919, 22 September 1891, Page 2

MAURICEVILLE NOTES.

[By Rustic]

The concert and dance which I >riefly referred to iu my last notes in lid of the Maurice»ille West library same off on Friday night last, and ully justified my anticipations by its inqualified success. Over one hunIred and fifty persons assembled in ,he schoolroom to witness the display )f local talent, notwithstanding the Inclemency of the weather, which was anything but favourable to the enterprise. The programme, which was large, consisting of instrumenta music, songs, recitations, readings &c, was carried out in a marine worthy of the occasion, and worthy o: those ladies and gentlemen who toot part in it. Especial thanks are du< to those ladies and gentlemen frotr Eketahuna who at considerable personal inconvenience contributed so kindly to the success of the entertainment. The following is the orde; in which the programme was carriec out:—Piano solo, Miss Morris; song " Friars of Orders Gray," Mr Keene song, " When other lips," Krßannis ter; duet, " Larboard Watsb," Messr, Worboys' ana* Sanson; recitation " Faithless Sally Brown," Mr Smith song, " Call me back again," Mn Keene; song, " Sailing," Mr Worboys song, " Wben the Flowing Tide pomes in," Miss Morris ,• song, "B\ tjy Baby," faster PeJliDg. After ar interval of ten niinutes ; the seepnt part opened with a piano, solo,!' The Mocking Bird," Mrs Sanson; spng " Only a Violet," Mr Felling: song tLjJie Irish Agricultural Girl," Ml "—• —fubag, "The etage Tillotson; ... • -„ . toaii driver's story," Mr Parkinson , ° " Ask me again," Miss Morris; duet " Juanita," Mt and Mrs Keene; song "In the Gloaming," Mrs Bannister ; song,'' No Fear," Mr Worboys. Th< National Anthem brought to a clost one of the most enjoyable entertain ments ever held in Mauriceville Some of the vocalists gave evidenc< of talent of a high order. Mi Worboys, in what was undoub tedly the song of the evening '• Sailing," bioupibt down the house and received a well-merited encore

to which lie responded. Miss Morns also elicited enthusiastic applause in her song " Ask me again," "the audience asking her again. Mr and Mrs Keene sang •' Juanita " in a subdued but paculiarly sweet and touching strain. Mrs Bannister's cultivated voice was heard to advantage in that divine song from " The Bohemian Girl," taking the audience completely by surprise and receiving a hearty encore. In fact everyone seems to have acquitted themselves splendidly. Mrs Sanson's piano solo " The Mocking Bird," was in itself a treat worth more than the money charged for admission, but the thing that particularly fetched me was George Tillotson's rollicking character as suitor to Mary "Anne Malone" which he sang with a brogue as toick as a wedge I made several ineffectual j efforts to get on the stage to help him I through with it, but was judiciously I restrained by my keeper from doing so. The concert over, the room was I cleared, the beauty and chivalry of Mauriceville took the floor, and " as the music rose with its voluptuous swell, soft eyes looked love to eyea that spake again, and all went merry as am image bell." Dancing was kept up till the bright orb of day began his golden progress in the east, and everything ended after the fashion of the most approved " penny dreadfuls."