Minstrel Concert

As will be seen by advertisement in another column, the Sale band ask their friends and supporters to give them a helping hand by attending the benefit on their behalf, to be given by the recently organised troupe of Sate Amateur Minstrels, on Thursday evening next, in the Victoria Hall.

The secretary of the band has supplied it with the following particulars, showing a pecuniary position to be such as to call for action on the part of all who desire to maintain it as one of the institutions of the town. In point of members and efficiency the band is in a better position than at any previous time, but the loss of two or three engagements, the want of support accorded to the steamboat excursions, and the necessity of providing a number of new instruments have resulted in a deficit of about £50. We would remind our readers that all the band property (instruments, uniforms, etc.) is vested in trustees for the public; that the bandsmen neither pay to the funds any contributions, nor receive any remuneration The object of the management is to make it as far as possible self supporting. The programme to be submitted at the forthcoming concert will be given by performers, nearly all of whom are new to a Sale audience, and who will do full justice to the numerous and varied items, and we therefore hope and expect a crowded house, both on account of the band and the minstrels.