His Excellency the Governor left for Gamaru this morning by the express train, and will stay at Elderslie until Thursday next. His Worship the Mayor (Mr N. V. A. Wales) and a large number of citizens were at the railway station, and three cheers were given for the Governor, one for Lady Glasgow, and one for Dr Batchelor. A number of the members of the Intercolonial Medical Congress also left town by the ex press train for the North. A special car riage was provided for a party numbering twenty-seven (including the wives of the doctors), who purpose going to Mount Cook. Dr Batchelor and Dr Roberts were among the party.
There was a good attendance at the City Hall last night, when the Faust Family and London Bellringers repeated their pro gramme of the previous evening. The third week of the season will be entered upon to-night, and there appears to be not the least waning of the popularity of the com pany, who seem to have established them selves as firm favorites both individually and collectively. A further change of pro gramme is to be presented. The Fausts will be seen in their beautiful “ statuary ” work, as well as in a musical melange, introducing bellringing with both hands and feet. An innovation will be the representation of a one-act comedy, entitled ‘The Rights of Women,’ by Messrs Hagan, Gourlay, and Miss Fraser. These artists will also give new items in their “ solus turns,” notable among them being Mr Hagan’s ‘lrish M.P.’ The Bellringers, who will be placed further down the programme, in answer to several requests, will give some new selections on their tuneful instruments. A shadow pan tomime, ‘Mysterious Myteries,’ will also be seen for the first time this evening.
