Fisk Jubilee Singers.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 274, 16 March 1889, Page 2

Fisk Jubilee Singers.

Writ was understood to be the farewell entertainment of this exceedingly popular Company was given on Thursday night, but owing to the steamship timetable being very inconvenient for the Company they have decided upon staying in Gisborne until Monday morning, This may not be pleasant to Mr Loudin, but it will be so to many others, especially when it is remembered that the fact of the Company remaining here so long has a great deal to do yith the afternoon concert that is to be given to-day, ’ There was again a large attendance at the ooncluaion of the series of evening entertainments, on Thursday night. Everything went off successfully, and nearly every item on the programme by the way in which it was performed gave grounds for an encore. The demands of the audience were in most oases gracefully complied with, but had the wishes of a good mi-v people been conceded the concert would have lasted over midnight, Mr Loudin, in returning thanks for the support accorded the Company, said that as circumstances made it preferable for them to remain until the departure of the big steamer, hd had decided upon consenting to a request to which he had previously made repeated refusals. He had been asked by several clergymen and others to hold an afternqon concert for the benefit of the children) and he would now arrange fox doing so on Saturday (this afternoon), These concerts, he said, had always been a great success wherever the Company had given them. The charges for admiHioa have Men t>ro|pofttoiteteb rsduetd,