Madame Corn bus acquired a world wide reputation, and the Press every where have spoken in the highest terms of her performances Her entertain ments have been clouded in Dunedin and JnvercTjill, and tb»re wis a good downataiis 1 lu>ut,3 at tlie Public Hall last night, when she g,iu> tlie first r»f two entertaiumouK t.i Oimaru. She is wonderfully clever in the mesmeric, or hypnotic art, and the subjects she opera ted upon hst evening were completely under her control. At the opening of her entertainment Madame Cora invited three well-known gentlemen to come on the platform to act as a committee of scrutiny, and to represent the audience. Those who volunteered to act in that capacity were Messrs Crombie (station master), Hutton (postmaster), and Andrew Miller, well known about Kaka nui. Mr Miller, however, became a sub ject, and was "under the influence" of Madame Cora's mesmeric powers more than once during the evening. On being released the first time he cried "Praise the Lcrl, I'm sitisfied now. My head's like a forty-shilling pot." Mr Miller, in his second mesmeric performance, crew after the manner of a Langshan rooster in the spring, and finally, with the other four subjects, had his ears pierced and a needle run through his cheek. Madame Cora explained that, although such con- j duct seemed cruel, the subjects were not j hurt ; that, indeed, they had no feeling. Among the amusing things that Madame | Cora made one of her subjects do was to saw one stick with another till he believed j the perspiration and the 9awdust and the " fat" had made him grimy. Then the operator compelled him to wash himself, and vigorously too, with flour. Two of the subjects, too, were made to pull in a I boilrace. The boat capsized, and they swam all over the stage. Madame Cora had a wonderful power over one of her I subjects, whom she made as rigid as a board, and had him lifted as a log on to two chair?, his heels resting on the back of one and the nape of his neck on the back of the other. All action of the nervous system vias suspended in this youth, and to show the want of sensation in the subject, she stuck, as if in a cushion, tour needles in his thigh. 