[PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The annual concert in aid of the Pem broke Public School took place on Friday, 17th inst., in the Olympic Hall. The gathering was numerous, and all the families in around Pembroke were well reDro3onted, besides a good number from Hawea, Albert Town, Mt. Barker and Cardrona. The educational ad vantages of the present day are well appreciated, and parents of children attending school are not slow in recognising this, consequently any gathering having for its object the augmenting of funds in connection with the school is always liberally responded to. The concert of Friday was a decided indication of this, judging by the number present, the many pleasant face 3 and the willingness shown by all to help towards success. The following is a list of concert programme:—Overture, "Heatherßells," by Miss Bella Russell; song, " Home They brought Her Warrior Dead," Miss King; duet, " What are the Wild Waves Saying," Miss Berg and Mr Thomson ; ''Sailors Hornpipe,"Mr S, M'Skimmings j

song, "Take Me Home Barney," Mißs Berg ; song, " Good Company," Mr J. H. Lister ; song, " Scotch Lassie Jean," Mr Thomson; song, "Flora M'Donald's Lament," Miss King ; " Irish Jig," Mr S. M'Skimmings ; selection from " Pinafore," Mr W. Monfceith; duet, " No One to Welcome Me Home," Mrs Remer and Miss Berg ; song, " The Cricket on the Hearth," Mr Thomson ; song, " Woman, Lovely Woman," Mr Lister; chorus, schoolchildren, "Sailing down the Golden Stream." This ended the concert, and by wayofcommentlneed only say that all were thoroughly appreciated, and although all are not equally endowed with the same vocal powers, any little deficiencies were atoned by the performers' sincere desire to make the evening enjoyable to those present. At the same time the talent present was so well balanced that ic would really be impossible to impartially place one above another. Yet one word must be given in praise of the children. Withoutdoubt, they were exceptionally good, having natural gifts, good training and combination, and they certainly were the feature of the evening. Such uniformity of voice and exactness of time, one very seldom hears. Mr Lister, who is on a visit to Pembroke, kindly gave his assistance, and everyone on the goldfields knows (who is acquainted with the gentleman) he is a concert in himself. 