SOIREE AND CONCERT AT PATERANGI.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1410, 16 July 1881, Page 3

SOIREE AND CONCERT AT PATERANGI.

Tun most successful ontcitainmcnt over held iit Pateiangi passed oft with uncut nhii ou Thmsday evening, the 7th inst. The Bo, nd ot Education having elected a, new schoolhouse, it as as doteimmed by the lesidents to celebiate its opening by a poiroe and conceit, and with i,he fumls pay off some of the liability still due ou the building. The cli.uniuin, with his two secietaiies and a Liriyo coinmittoo, worked energetically and a\ oil, and the lesult was ;i gieat success, both as ie<ra.ids numbers present and oath lecupts Lady and gentlcm in amafeuirf came from long distances to assist at tho conceit, while the ladies' committee provided abundance and to .spare for eight tables Tho Misses Fleming opened the conceit by playiu<r a, piano duet, after which Miss Pi nice sang ''Apart,' which was veiy pleasingly Knderod. Mr Hunter came ne\t with "Nil Dcsperandum," which was sung m Ins u*ual correct style. Mi.ss Fleming gave a pi.mo solo, after which Mi-s Mandeno saug " The Mountebank,' 1 and then Mr Bengo made hi.s debut at l'.iterangi, with the song "Tiuo Blue " Mi Ballance, from Harapepe, then took Ins seat at the piano, and played with gioat .skill an operatic .selection from ".Faust,'' -when Miss Finch ssmg the <rem of the evening, via., " When the Swallows Homeward Fly, 1 ' fioni the German. Next came a comic rsonsr by Mr Piince, '" Im not a Manymg Man," wliich cieated much amusement. Miss Mandpno then played a piano solo, attei which Miss Allen and Miss Finch bing that well-known -ong. "Tho Danube Rivui.'' Altei "in intcnal of <i lew minutes Miss Hodqbon ga\c a piano solo, " The Maiden's Player,"' winch for so young a lady wa-> \eiy a\ oil icndeied indeed ; this young Udy gives promise of gieat tutiuc excellence. Miss Mandeno next gave the song, "The Ship-boy's Letter," and Mi Kendall "The Kngli&hinan," after which Miss Fleming ga\e "Home, Sweet Home, " with vaiiations, on the piano, which was listened to with iapt attention, and elicited an encore. Mr and Mi&s Piince next sang a duet, " The Happy Policeman, 1 ' in chaiacter, wliich caused roars of laughter, when Miss M. Fleming brought the programme to an end by singing the &ong, "Sad Thoughts." MrR. T. Millar then stepped forward and proposed a vote of thanks to thosfc who had kindly assisted at the concert, which was duly seconded by Mr F. C. Germann. Tlu'eo cheers weie then given for Mr Macky as oltaiiman, after winch the scats were cleared away foy the inevitable dance. — (Coriesponduut).

A YOU^ti married u oman was publicly accused in a hotel by her husband, in Marshalltown, Uuited States, of flirting, the man with whom she had been derelict being named. The wife took the reproof without a word of remonstrancp, bur when she got her husband to their room, neighbours say she aci/ed a revolver and at the muzzle of the pistol made her hunband kneel at her feet and abjectly apologize. At a recent wine in the Paris Observatory, M. Trouve showed a live fish with its body lit up from within by his polyscope, a minute form of which, with conducting wires passing to the hands of the operator, the animal had been caused to swallow (comfortably, let us hope). The whole body became transparent in the dark, so that the vertebrae could be counted, and all details examined. The latest bulletin reports that the president's feverish sympfcons have abate*, and that he w progressing f avouraj^, '