MAURICEVILLE NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4778, 20 July 1894, Page 2

MAURICEVILLE NOTES.

(From an Occasional Correspondent,) ' Mauricevillo apparently is going to have plenty of amusement this winter. AMmateur minstrel troupo has .been « ' i formed, ind,- judging, by'tlie way,they acquitted themselves in their first performance kst Friday-night in the J Choral Hall, there is every prospect of ine members becoming celebrities in * their art,, Although the weather was ' very wet, the,hall was crowded, and th'oX j audience were 'given a real treat. Tlio I opening chorus," Climb up ye Cliillun '' Climb,' by tlio company at once put the audience in good humour. Messrs Croxson and Clark acting as Bones and Inmbo. respectively,' caused immenso laughter, by their humorous sayings and ''u; conundrums. Mr Petersen's efforts as : : v?interlocutor were very successful, nud "„Tii)g, Ting, That's how tlio -yJiJa M (jogs, was well received, and tlio - 1 same may be said of the rendering of ■' " Mnrguerita," by Mr Cottiss, and of All for tho 1 sake of Sarah," by Mr 'i Croxson. In fact, every song Was well s, rendered, but tlio programme is too long for ft full description. The entertainment ; conc'uded with the farce.,_>, Handy . »-A Andy; winch homo 1 in great good huinoiiK" Wyouug folk stayed to Hie dance, .whim was kept up till, the small hours. Tlie Hastwcll * Brass Band is going to civo an enter* taiiiinent early next month;' ! •;