MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1777, 1 November 1886, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

I • j Evidently the stage proverb (aays the Sydney Sunday Times) winch say* that no woman can play Juliet until she is forty, does not apply to Australian actresses ; for here is Miss Essie Jenyus, a young lady still in her teens, preparing to su limit her impersonation of the character to the verdict of a Sydney audience. She hag already essayed her powers in the part before the public in several of the Australian colonies, and has won great praise and goodwill. She has the requisite personal advantages of face, figure, voice, and graceful bearing, she has proved hevselt a most intelligent and sympathetic artist, and no doubt we shall be able to record that here, as elsewhere, she will triumph over the difficulties inherent to the part The costumes have been specially designed by the Hon Lewis Winefteld, and entirely new scenery has been pre* pared. There is to be incidental music, including a chorns of monks, a chorus of nuns, and the serenade, "Hark thee back." The revival should be extremely successful, and the popularity of the young actress will cause the trial to be watched with great interest A return just issued shows the amounts paid for the hire, equipment, fitting as cruisers, and restoration as merchant steamers of the steamers employed by the Admiralty as naval cruisers. For the America, 5527 tonß, fitted as an armed cruiser, but which did not leave Liverpool, £26,375 wag paid for hire. £8267 for fittings, £5640 for restoration, and £1560 for miscellaneous charges ; for the Oregon, 7375 tons, fitted at Liverpool, and employed with the evolutionary squadron, £39,590 was paid for hire, £4,407 for fittings, £8,049 for restoration, and £2,958 for miscellaneous expenditure; foV the Urabria, 7718 tons, fitted at Liverpool, but did not leave that port, £48,444 was expended ; for the Arizona, 5148 tons, similarly fitted, £28.708 was spent; for the Alaska, 6932 tons, similarly fitted, £42,188 was expended ; for the Rosetta, 3502 tons, armed at Hong Kong, and unarmed and discharged there, £32,894 was spent ; for the Massilia, 4908 tons, fitted at Sydney, unarmed there, discharged in England, £52,706 was spent ; for the India, 4065 tons, fitted at Hong Kong, unarmed there, and discharged at Calcutta, £30,491 was spent ; for the Glenogle, 3749 tons, fitted at Hong { Kong, and unarmed and discharged j there, £80,116 was expended ; for the Lnsitania, 8832 tons fitted at Sydney, unarmed there, and discharged in England, £35,505 was paid ; for the Moor, 3630 tons, fitted at the Cape, un armed there and utilised to brins troops to England, £29,463; f<»rtheM -xican 4668 tons, sent to the* 'ape, not fito-rt, aud. used to convey troops, L 46,12$

was paid ; for the. Coptic, 4448 tons, sent from New Zealand to Coquimho to be armed and unarmed, and sent ta England for discharge, L 34.040 was paid ; and on the Britannia, fitted as an armed cruiser at Coqaim'*) onarmed there and sent to England to discharge, L 83.430 was expended. The cost cf three hired transports engaged in 1883 was L 57.699 ; of 26 transports ehgagedin 1884, £299,364 ; for 121 transports hired in 1885, 11,117 157 ; and of ten tags and small vessels engaged for sis months service £21, 675 was spent.