The Dunedin Operatic Society have every reason to be satisfied with the success that has so far attended their efforts. As on the previous evenings, last night's audience, which almost filled the theatre, were most enthusiastic in their appreciation of the society's production of the ' Pirates of Penzance.' The choruses were well sung, while the principals, one and all, did justice to their respective parts. Misses Mon gredien and Blaney and Messrs Smith, JJmbers, and Young were all in capital voice, and the calls on them for encores were both, loud and numerous. Mr Young fairly brought down the house with his local hits. The Folly ballet and the closing tableau {'Britannia') were also awarded their fair share of applause. The opera will be repeated again to-night. A shocking scene occurred in the South ampton Police Court one day last month. An American fireman, named Giimour, had been convicted of assaulting his wife and sentenced to a month's imprisonment in default of payment of a fine. On leaving the dock he passed the witness box where his wife was standing. He struck her a terrible blow, throwing her clean over the rails. She fell senseless to the ground. Great excitement followed, one of the magistrates shouting: " You brute ! Let me get at you." It took ten policemen to remove the man. Giimour was later placed in the dock at Southampton handcuffed with his arms be hind him. He was charged with assaulting his wife in court, and sentenced to slj months' imprisonment, one of the magis trates remarking that he ought to be well flogged.
