Cirrus@Austlit

Buggins reflects on the role of police magistrates in passing sentence, and on a Tasmanian incident that occurred during H. R. H. Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh's, recent visit to the colonies.

Buggins then turns his attention to theatrical matters: Walter Montgomery's less than enthusiastic welcome in Bendigo; the consequences of a poor review of Mrs Holloway's performances in Adelaide; and a detailed overview of Walter H. Cooper's Colonial Experience, being produced at the Royal Victoria Theatre. Buggins also notes other Victoria Theatre productions during the previous week: Frederic Laurence Phillips' A Bird in the Hand Worth Two in the Bush and Dion Boucicault's Colleen Bawn; or, The Brides of Garryowen.

The final item in Buggins's article states that a new theatre, 'capable of searing 2.000 people, is shortly to be erected at Gympie'. The need for the theatre, due to be opened at Christmas time, is the result of diggers 'flocking to the new goldfields from all parts of the colonies'.