The performance wil be repeated this evening, when ft numbe of fresh novelties will be introduced, ac» the Company bring their season to a olos' to-morrow, leaving for Napier on Sunday To-morrow afternoon there will be i matinee for ladies and children. The matinee performance given by th' Edison Kinematograph Company yester day afternoon attracted a large crowd o children, the hall being well filled, an< (he youngsters were delighted with the entertainment, which resembled that o the previous evening. In the evening thi Academy was again crowded to overflow ing. The war pictures consisted of viewi of our soldier boys in South Africa, includ ing many living pictures of the New Zealanders ' landers in Cape Colony, and myrioramii sketches of engagements in which thej have taken part. Photographic vieviso; the departure of the contingents were als< exhibited, and there was a splendid col lection of miscellaneous films, one particu larly, that depicting the scene from th( front of a moving railway engine, beinf much admired. The pictures were re markably good, and the exhibition was voted to be the best which has yet visited Giaborne. The colossophone added bright ness to the entertainment by its choice selection of vocal and instrumental music, and Mrs Fernandez supplied the overtures and incidental music. There will be o further performance to-morrow Satur day evening, when Messrs Cooper and McDermott will show a number of remark able living pictures, including " Savage South Africa," depicting the last stand ol Major Wilson in the Matabele war, besides the damnation scene from Faust, the" vision scene from theCorsican Brothers, the" Mel bourne Cup race, and other views. Considerable interest was aroused in town on Friday evening (says the Taranaki Herald) by rumors of a gas explosion at the new bore at Moturoa. It seems that at about 4.15 p.m. gas was struck at a depth of about 1730 ft, and an explosion took place, the water with which fcjje bore was filled being projected through the top of the derrick and, mingled with papa mud, scattered in all directions for a distance of upwards of 100 yards. 