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MIL LICE NT.The(From oar own Correspondent.)August 28. greet apathy shown by the Surrey Department in the matter of reducing the water level in Lakea George Mid Frome very nearly ted to serious results last Tuesday, by the flood water from Leke George washing ewsy e portion of the railway embankment near Beachpbrt; and had it not been for the prompt manner in which the District Foreman (Mr. MaoGibbon) repaired the damage probably the traffic would have been stopped lor a while. It is now intended to faoe the bank with tea-tree and large atones to prevent alike oocurreooe. The water level in Lake Frome is only two or three inches below the highest level reached last year, and had the bank not been pitched with stone and a retaining wall built on the south side, special precaution would have bad to be taken for Its safety.I understand the Gevenuneot have givenr, B,Instructions to ths Assistant Engineer, B.E.,5^dfrLttai ***•£* pWbSedSio'G*pbier and Narraooorte. rsifwap starting from Hear Kalongadoo, and joining on to the Bivoli Bay and Mount Gambier line at point about four miles’from Mount Ga bier. The object of the deviation is to save ths expense of purchasing high-priced land in Mount Gambler.The Mayurra Drainage Board, having fenced ia the Adeem,1 die planting it with suitable treee obtained from the Mount Gambier Forest Nursery, and should the young treee reoeive proper attention I have no donbt the undertaking will prove i success. The planting is under the super vision of Mr. Perrin, of the Forest DepartmentThe dam on the Reedy Creek main drain, carried away by the flood about a fortnight ago, has been repaired, and work resumed. The steam exoavator has been oondemned for the winter, as it was found the ground was boo soft to carry its weight when working. We had a very heavy thunderstorm onMonday night, accompanied by heavy and wind; and on Tuesday it rainedrainheavily without intermission all day. Today we have had a change, and we have every prospect of having a little fineThe Millicent public school boys went out ‘ ' * ' \inBt.) toOfine Muncent public school boys w to Sebastopol last Saturday (23rd i try oooolusions with the schoolboys place. They succeeded in gaming the day, end returned home quite jubilant with theirvictory. The return match will be played on Monday next on the MiUideut footballground.ADELINA. PATH.(Bv Picco.)The great prime donna, was daughter of Salvatore Patti,who diod in 1869, and a SpanishanoangeetItalianmother, also a finger well known in Spain and Italy, before her marriage With Patti, as Signora Barili. Adelina was born at Madrid February, 1843. Ths psren at to Amsriha, and she wion ths 16th of of Adelinataken there as e child. Having shown a groat aptitude for masio, she received instruction in singing from Mr. Msurios Strakosoh, who married her eldest sister Amelia. When seven yean old she appeared aeaoonoert singer, and wu then so that when singing she stood on n table beside the piano. at which her lame sister, Carlotta presided. These efforts were very remunerative, and during a time of financial stringency. She maintained the family by her own singing. She Was, however, wisely withdrawn from this for the purpose of further study. She reappeared ou November 24, 1869, being then only 16 years old, in the title role of •' Lada di Leffimermoor,M at the New York Academy of Music. She mere child in stature at that time, but success attended her even then, and thus she started on her wonderful career.Mddlo. Patti made her ddbut in England the 14th of May, 1881, at the Royal Opera as Anima, with wonderful success, end from that time she became famous, though quite unknown before. She repeated part no less than eight times, and oontirmed her euooess by her performance of Lucia, Violetta, Zerlinaf'Don Giovanni ”), Martha, and Roeina. She sang that autumn at the Birmingham festival, io operas at Liverpool, Manchester| etc., and afterwards -gaged at Berlin, Brussels, and Paris.(To it continued.)TABLEAUX ENTERTAINMENTS.In a recent issue we gave a short notice of two of these popular entertainments, held in the Institute on Monday and Tuesday even ings. A correspondent wishes us to publish the following more detailed notice of them :Tableaux entertainments were given in the Institute Hall on Monday and Tuesday evenings. The beautiful scenery of the etsge is admirably soiled for these representations, whether it is to show kings and queens in the palace, soldiers in the streets of the city, lovers iu the garden, or gipsies and outlaws io the forest. After a rich grouping of King John in the meadows of Runnymede, the next tableau showed a pretty little boy and girl of almoat infant years being led through the wood. The rough mon leave them there, when they are first seen standing, and then fallen asleep beneath the trees, several of tho loveliest little fairies bringing fern fronds to lay over tho babes, or in midnight frolic tripping the green ring in fairy danee. The exquisite beauty of these scenes was much enhanced by the brilliant flashes of bine, and red, and electric light. Tenting on the old Camp Ground n was eung by a number of young people, and illustrated by foar scenes exceedingly well arranged. A tent in the background and soldiers grouped in various attitudes, while rifles nod other warlike weapons were artia tically disposed. The second picture showec the camp at night, followed by the loved oocs at homo ” eagerly seeking for news from the seat of war, the papers being brought in by a small boy. The lost scene was a little field, with its usual saddening sights on the evening after the battle. Miss Jacob sang very appropriate song, Soldier, rest, which was received with much applause.Dr. Johnson and Herr Kuscnplcr contributed greatly to the musical part of the programme, as also did Mr. F. W. Weierter and Mias Harris.That pathetic part of Tennyson’s Prin cess,” Home they brought her warrior dead,” was divided into six scenes, which though mournful, were truly touching. The first scene shows the dead warrior being carried by his comrades into the preseuce o his wife snd her ladies. The contrast is marked between the ladies’ terrified couu tenances and the rigid face of the wife, who scarcely seems to breathe. We next see the warrior laid ou a low couch, before hia wife, and her maidens endeavor in every possible way to call forth her tears, rightly think ing that she must weep, or she will die.' They praise him soft and low, call him worthy to be loved, yet she neither moves nor weeps. In despair one of the ladies rises from her ■eat. steals quietly to the warrior's side, tenderly lifts the faoe doth In the vain hope that the sight of his noble faoe, now calm m death, may move her lady. Still, though the look of agony on her face is tenfold increased, her eyes are dry as before. Then the dear old nurso, who had tended the warrior as a babe, fetches his only child, pretty little girl of some four years of age, and places ner on her mother's knee. At the sight of her darling child her tears flow freely as she exclaims, Sweet, my child, live for tbee.” The last glimpse we have is the lady kneeling beside the dear lost husband. pouring out her grief ou his breast; the child meanwhile standing sorrowfully by, crying hsr little heart oat, and the soldiers bending their beads, soaroe able to witness such intense grief. The sonu was most sung daring ths different seen ytum i ana the last soene was made doubly sorrowful by ths beautiful rendering of ths Dead March in Sani ” by Herr Ruiobpler.The tableau of Roman history was therat fight between tho Horatii and CuriatiLnine scenes were represented the Roman and Alban kings with tbeir armies- In front were the six warriors, resplendent in their ancient armour, interchanging kindly words, when the herald summons to the battle. In presenoe of the crowned sovereigns and their attendants two Horatii aro seen dead, the third unhurt; the three Coriatii oil wounded. 0d6 by one fast following the three brothers fall beneath the victorious sword of the retreating Horatins, who, amid the strains of 41 Bee tho conquering boro comes,” is seen wreathed with a laurel diadem. His sister, betrothed to one of the fallen brothers, meets him with tears and reproaches for her lover's death, when, with cruel patriotism, he odds woe more, in vain deprecating the blow, to lbs slain. The last scene shows ths pater-ptnUt faidiog the Alban crown to thscrowned Hoetilius, and Alban king and people kneeling in fealty before the throne.A pretty tableau of a wedding party returning from the church elicited great applause. The bride was beautifully dressed d followed by six bridesmaids, all in white,anwith their attendant children with basketsbest men. Little of flowers, lined the path through which the party passed, and one of the chief attractions of the picture were an aged ooupls, who prayed blessings on the happy pair. The dress of the old woman was capital, leading one’s thought back to the last century. The pretty and popular song Ehreoon the Rhine, was splendidly sung by Er. Maytum, and illustrated by three very beautiful pictures. The opening soene was the street of an old continental town, the prominent figures being a young girl taking leave of her lover, a young soldier, who was going with his regiment to active servioe, while in the diatanoe were ■e«n a company of soldiers marching with thsir commanding offlosr. The attitude of the young couple was exceedingly good, the maiden fastening a sprig of Forget-mo-not in her lover’s cost.The aooond verse of the song was illustrated by the regiment marohing with banners flying, while in the foreground were little boys waving their hate ana cheering, and our young soldier turning round for a last look at his lady-love, who was watching him pass with bar flowers on hie breast. The third verse presented a sad picture of a battle-fleld by moonlight, many dying and dead, two pretty Rodcrost nurses ministering with gentlethe sufferers, and our hero supported by a oomrade to whom he was giving iho sprig of Forget-me-not, and his dying to his absent love. This tableauwas followod by a brilliant dnet on the piano played by Miss Falkinor snd Miss Marrie. No oomment is needed here ; the fact speaks for the itself.“ The Flour of the Family” wm seen just being brought in a sack from the mill by a Jolly-faced miller. The father, who is dig ging his garden, stops to look through the window to ask the price of the flour, and the mother, who is a charming old lady, is en gaged in making a cake. It may heie be remarked that this family seems a very industrious one; even the boys are making themselves useful—one cleaning knives, another brushing bis boots, and a third making a shanghai to shoot the parrots that annoy his father so much by eating his wheat. The daughters, too, all have their reroective duties, dusting, polishing, etc., and the numerous children playing on the floor with books aud dolls may be complimented on tbeir cleanliness. The curtain falle, and When It rises again the miller baaC)ne, the sack Is empty, and standing by a charming Httiegirl- “ The Flower of the Family. *r All the family seem astonished at the sight of the child. The mother drops her cake in her astonishment, and one of the lfttle girls makefl a good inspection of the newcomer. The shanghai is dropped, while tho boy searches in the bag for any more such apparitions, and the eldest son loses his heart completely over this little fresh flower which hia just appeared.Britannia deserves notice as being one of the beet tableaux of the evening. Britannia waarepresented by a young lady attired in a longwing robe of ‘ * .....and a helmetflopale bine bordered with gold, f black velvet and gold. Inana a neimet oi black velvet and gold, one hand she held a long gold trident, in the other a shield adorned with the U rope md iant UnionJack. A stout rope was coiled at the foot o the pedestal, and on eifche handsome soldier and sailor,pathetically by Mr. Majeither side stood each armed in defeooe of their country, and bearing the flags of the Army and Navy. The soldier wore a very rich scarlet uniform, and the sailor waa in true naval costume. During ibis tableau Britannia, the pride of the ooeao,” was auug by a chorus of men’s voices. 1 The old legendary story of Robin Hood hod his merry men occupied the seoond part of Tuesday evening’s programme, and was exceedingly well carried out by about thirty yoang people. Miss Falkiner aooonpauied the pictures with appropriate masio, relieved occasionally by the band.This series of tableaux represented the meeting of Robin Hood and Little John in Sherwood Forest, instantly followed by the arrival of a number of the outlaws olad in Lincoln green, who hasten to obey the summons from their leader's born. An amusing scene of forest revel was shown, where Robin, after plundering the Bishop o Hereford (who, with his attendants, wa travelling through the forest), winds up the interview by dancing a minuet with the reverend prelate. Next is seen a spacious palace, where a richly dressed Queen i tended by the ladies of her court, giving a ring to a pretty little page dressed in palo bluo end pink, with lace trimming*, and bidding him seek Robin Hood and ask him to accept the King's challenge to his archery ftte. A very pretty scene follows wbeu the King, Quoen, and the whole Court are assembled to witness the skill of Robin Hood and his archers. Among them we recognise our old friend the Bishop io mitrpg1'*0 and lawn frills. Robin stands in tho foreground with spent bow, bis arrow piercing the bolls-eye of the target. Another pretty picture is the interview of Robin with Maid Marion, in the forest. The maideu seeks his bplp as champion for the young Princt to rid her of the importunities of the Prince of Arragon, who olaim* her in marriage, or declares war against the King. Robin flood Little John, and Will Scadlock are next seen in deadly combat with the Prince and his two warriors, who speedily fall beneath the swords of their enemies. The three victorious outlaws are then presented to the young Princess, who is dressed in green and white, in compliment to her champions, whose reward is to be the band of the young lady given to one of the trio whom she prefers. Without hesitation she selects Will Scadlock recognising in him a knight in disguise. A pretty wadding In Holyrood Palace is next seen, followed soon attar by a sad contrast, a cottage room with an open window, through 'which the dying Robin Hood is shooting his last arrow to mark the place of his grave. Solemnly peal the tones of the Dead March in Saul.” and the curtain rises to show us Robin Hood in death, supported in the arms of his sorrowing and faithful friend, Little John.The Trades Band were in attendance each evening, and contributed largely to the enjoyment and success of tbe entertainments.It is to be regretted that the hall was not filled on either night. It is true tho weather wa* very inolemoot, but many more might have been there. No trouble nor pains was spared to arrange an exceedingly interesting progiammc, and it is disappointing to fiod that the public give so little encouragement to local tAlent. The price was lower than is usual at the hall, and possibly this may have been a fault, people prising little that which costs them little. Tho young people, each and all, went through their parts splendidly, and are well deserving the thanks of all who were present, as also of the promoters of the entertainments, whose wishes they so kindly and successfully carried out.WILLIAM ON THINGS IN GENERAL.The inhabitants in the vicinity of Or street are about to publish the followi manifesto Any party, or parties earned in the larceny of Grey-street foot pa will ploase return the same immediate when all will be forgiven.I hear that it is intended to plant t borders of the new Van Sittart Park wi Rowan, and Laurel trees as soon as Ck Nicholas, of tbs weather, is in a favoral mood. Whether this rumour has beeu c culated to hoodwink the public, I know nc nor am 1 sore that the perpetrator of t rumour has not bolted.Will the Council go to tbe expense forming a new harbour in tbe fair Citythe Mountain for our lucreaeed sblppi' * totrade ? It is hardly worth while point!og tbe fact that the harbours In the seaport ours, at tbe Blue Lake, are io a very « satisfactory condition, and no accommo-tion has been made for our valaabie rocl apparatus and the gallant band of volnnte attached to It. This is a pity seeing thaGtlcman has come all the way from tl irisblog inland city, MacDonnell, teach them how to reacoe the shipwrtci mariner. Won t the mariner, aforesaid, comforted by the fact, as he clings to I last remnant of his ship, that he knows thlt; is a rocket apparatus somewhere around ! The following comes from Staffordshire Samuel Challeoor and Joseph Tomlins* potters by trade, were* charged before t Langton magistrate with obstructing thoroughfare. On the Sunday previc Qeneral booth weut to LaDgton to open new Salvation barracks theie. The aeft dants followed the procession with a donk dressed In a black cloak aud a salvati bonnet On one side of the cloak w shelled •• Salvation Jenny,” and on t other side ••Hallelujah Ass.” They al d.ewed up a bulldog with a salvation bone •ad j«ny, tho latter bearing the mottossPrxCOEIdoik8JotsuetbefevatiociIbod gcu of I |MV init lo»i unr onl witi opcHoifevew
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Mount Gambier Border Watch
Mount Gambier, South Australia, AU
Wed, Sep 03, 1884
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