The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-11-17
NOTES OF THE WEEK.

PRoF. ANpERsoN.-This remarkable performer of
Natural Magic, sailed on Friday last for California.
As we noticed in our last issue, he generously gave
the receipts of his last days entertainment to the
Queens Hospital the net proceeds of which amounted
to 5000 IS. The Professors donation was acknowl-
edged on the part of the Hospital Trustees, by the
following note:
To Professor J. II. anderson:
IR:-We the undersigned, for ourselves. and Co
trustees of the Queens Hospital, ha We much pleasure
in rendering to you our thanks for the very hand
some addition to the funds of our institution contrib
uted by you. being the proceeds of your yesterdays
While we regret that your stay here has been so
limited, We join in heartily wishing you and your in
teresting family success in the more extended sphere
for which you leave us; and we would add that the
people of Honolulu will long remember the pleasant
visit of the g Wizard of the North"
We are your obedient servants,
(Signed,> G. NJ. ROBERTSON. Executive
WM. WEBSTER, Committee
" THEo. c. HEUCK, Queens
JAS. W. AUSTIN, Hospital.
Honolulu, Nov. 10, 1859.
That the professor is a performer of great merit is
amply attested by the success which he has met where
he has performed. In Australia, during a period of
sixteen months, his receipts amounted to some $685.
900. Just before he left the colonies he was assailed
in one of the public prints as a low performer of no
merit. He replied at derable length in the Mel
bourne .argus of septic 8. As that letter con-
tains some facts which viii interest those who became
acquainted with him here, we quote a portion of it:
SCI opened at the Theater Royal, Melbourne, on
June 81, 1858. | performed for Sc days, and during
that period was honored by the presence of all who
hold rank and position in the colony, from His Ex-
cellency the Governor Sir Henry Barkly downwards.
The gross receipts of my SO days in Melbourne
amounted to $500 6s., and 35,015 people visited
the theater. From Melbourne l went to Geelong snd
thence to Ballarat. Thence / went to Tasmania,
and from there proceeded to New South Wales. Re-.
turning to Victoria in July Of the present year,I visited
Bendigo, Castlemaine, &C.; and so great has been the
reception l have met with in this colony, that the to-
tai of my gross receipts in Victoria for my magical
performances amount TO $500 lbs ID, a larger
sum I believe than has been received by any other
single-handed performer in the colony during an
equal amount Of time. This, however, does not in
clude the sum I have received for my performances
Of Rob Roy. My dramatic representations in this COL
ony have produced a gross receipt of G2,3S8. In
Tasmania, my stay was very brief, but my receipts
to 81, 276 Ga Cd. In New South Wales 1
at the Lyceum Theater, Sydney, for FIVE u Ks,
had the patronage of His Excellency Sir William
Denison. My receipts in that theater amounted to
e2 1897 3s. for magical performances only; while my
representations of Rob Roy and Rolla at the Prince Of
Wales Theater in the same city produced 81 ,O61 Is Cd.
Leaving Sydney, 1 visited Maitland, Newcastle, Bath Il
urst, Windsor, &C., meeting everywhere with the
same gratifying results. Perhaps if I place before |
the public the following tabulated account from my
books, it may be more interesting than any other form
in which I could give It. and will have a special in
crest for each Of the colonies named in it,
Professor Anderson's Total Receipts in the Colonies.