Mr George Darrell, the well-known author actor, who has just concluded a phenomenal run through Australia with the Trilby Company aud is now playing to good business iv Auckland, has made arrange ments with Messrs Williamson and Mus grovo for permission to play tho authorised version of "Trilby" through New Zealand. luducemeuts have been made to Mr Darrell to play in Gisborne on his way to Welling ton, but from n wire received this morning it seems that ho cannot bo tempted to allow us a glimpse of the sensational play of the day.
Tho Auckland Herald says : — A complaint comes from Cabbage Bay to the effect that the sly-grog selling there is on tho most pronounced scale, and more particularly on Sundays with the diggers from the hills, and the Maoris rolling drunk about the road, the scenes are very disgraceful. The worst of it appoars to be that it is all witnessed openly by the local representative of law and order, without tho slightest interference, there being no concealment of the source from which the drink is purchased. The respec table residents are deeply indignant at the proceedings.
