Fire Brigade Entertainment

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 433, 25 March 1890, Page 3

Fire Brigade Entertainment

Thbbb was very unfavorable weather for the entertainment last evening in honor of the Fire B igade representative team, and many people who had intended to go concluded that it waa wser tn remain in the enjoyment of home comforts than to venture nut on such a cold and rainy night, possibly to find that the entertainment had been poatp >ned. But postponement was not to be thought of, and the Girruon Band turned out with a full muster and marched through the slush, their brows tempered with the cooling and sparkling water beads that came down too thickly to be comfortable, and besides damping one’s clothing very often found their w>.y down the back of the neck, with an effect neither romantic nor pleasing. Nevertheless an unpretentious procession took place as far as the hall, and it was eoon evident that the entertainment would not be the “ frost ” that might reasonably have been feared with each weather. The showers o'earrd off for a while just before eight o’clock. ' and an opportunity wae offered to go out without being soaked through. The e was a large attendance at the Theatre R yal, the entertainment taking the form of a promenade concert. We are informed that un excellent programme was gone through, and also that His Worship the Mayor made an address, congratulating the team and highly oompli meeting the Brigade. The Superintendent, Mr Townley, also made an appropriate speech and the challenge shield was publicly presented. The tableaux were magnificent representations. The Firemen’s Rescue was a great success, s d was enthusiastically applauded, Miss Townley and her fair-haired little sister being in the supposed pos. of danger. The Landing of Captain Cook was also warmly applauded, the tau-oolored and muscular bodies of the Maoris, naked from the waist upwards, their faces painted and making the moat horrible grimaces, bring.ng forcibly to one’s mind the wild incidents that one has read of in the histories of early New Zealand.