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Northern Advocate, 24 June 1921, Page 4

How throe kittens have l:cen receiving a musical education is described iby a "Daily Mail ,, correspondent. "Those three kittens," he says, "won. , horn in a room where a gramaphone is played almost daily. Having live-1 in this room over since, they have grown up in an atmosphere of nuisie.il roineriy, Liszt Mid Chopin. When about s-ix weeks old the kittens began to show a distinct interest in what was beii.g played. When the gramophone was silent they sometimes climbed to the 'top .°nd looked into the doors. The cOxet of the different records is very interesting. If a tune with a stmg rhythm is started one or more of the kittens will make obvious efforts to keep in time. There are » few tunes which they seem to like so liixu-h thai they wi'.l climb up to the instrument and sit as near as possible to it. "t< it possible," tislis. the correspondent, "to train animal? further in musical eui.cntinn 7 "

Tlic> head of a well-known Wangamii furnishing- firm, when discus-sing the prices of furniture with a "Herald" reporter, stated that up to the present time his firm had not received advice of a single imported article utilised in -he manufacture of furniture that had receded in price. On the other hand, advices showed a tendency 1o firm, so that Iho public could not look forward to getting cheap furniture for some considerable time. Another important factor was the price of timber. The class of timber used in fuvnilure manufacture, according to recent; invoices from the mills, showed littlf- decline. Timber i'm- furniture was of no use \mless kept in stock for a long time to season, and as it is necessary to camlarge stock- bought in a dear market, no rociuntion could be looked for in this iHirectioii .for a considerably lime.