Last night, Professor Charver gave a luminary exhibition of the latest invention in phantasmagoria in St. Andrew's Hall to a select party of press representatives and other gentlemen. There is a description of the screening of Cinematograph: a long strip of photographic film is wound from…

The delicate and intricate mechanical arrangements combined with the elaborate and most modern of electrical appliances of the machine require such perfect adjustment and manipulation that Professor Maurice Charvet has decided to postpone his opening exhibition for one day.

The Cinematograph is the greatest marvel of the age. It will be exhibited under the personal supervision of Professor Maurice Charvet five sessions a day and each for an hour.

Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, December 26th, 28th & 30th commencing at 9 p.m. Xylophone & Kinematograph Entertainment.

Grand opening night on Tuesday, the 30th October. Grand exhibitions of animated pictures of the Transvaal War, the Boer Battery Captured by British.

Mr. J. B. Suttor is to lecture in the St. Andrew's Hall, City Hall, this afternoon before the Odd Volumes Society. The lecture, which will be illustrated by cinematograph pictures, is on Australian life, and H. E. the Governor will preside.

In St. Andrew's Hall, Mr. J. B. Suttor, the Commercial Commissioner in the East for New South Wales, delivered a lecture on Australia, in the course of which reference was made to statistics of the commercial, industrial and material progress of Australia, its climate conditions and…

Improvements are being carried out, under the supervision of Messrs. Palmer and Turner, in the City Hall and the Theatre Royal. St. George's Hall, the St. Andrew's Hall and the small rooms are having new floors for dancing. The building is also being redecorated.

The popularity of the film and 'super-production' like Douglas Fairbanks latest 'The Thief of Bagdad,' has an impact in London for building more supercinemas. In the last two years the New Tivoli and the Shepherd's Bush Pavilion, both magnificent, have been opened. In…

Yesterday Leopold Premyslavs, the violinist and Eugenie Premyslavs the cellist, his wife, returned to the Colony in the s.s. Empress of Russia. They are, with the assistance of Mr. Harry Ore, to give a concert in St. Andrew's Hall on Saturday night and another, at the Star Theatre, on the…