THE KING'S TRUMPETER.
PLAYED THE OLD YEAR OUT. [BY TELEGRAPH.— CORRESPONDENT.] CHRisxcHtrncn, Friday. An unrehearsed incident took place in Cathedral Square in the very early hours of this morning. The huge crowd that had gathered to see the old year out and the new year in had begun to display here and there some signs of rowdinees, and the police in one or two cases had had to draw their batons. When someone espied Mr. Short, the King's trumpeter, watching the proceedings from the balcony of the United Sen-ice Hotel an instant demand was made that he play something, and it became so insistent that Mr. Short procured his trumpet and played a number of songs, concluding with " Home, Sweet Home" and "God Save the King." The tolerably broad hint conveyed in these two airs was accepted by " le crowd, who, after heartily cheering the trumpeter, dispensed to their homes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13948, 2 January 1909, Page 5
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150THE KING'S TRUMPETER. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13948, 2 January 1909, Page 5
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