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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1290, 19 November 1896, Page 23

The Baroness Burdett-Coutts was upon one occasion opening a Ragged Sohool at Manchester, and the directors of the Ship Canal placed at her disposal an engine and carriage in order to inspect the works then approaching completion. She would not, at the end of the journey, take her departure before she had shaken hands with the engine-driver and his fireman, thanking them in so doing for the care they had taken for her safety. This instance is but one of many that could be oited of the kindly disposition shown by the Baroness towards the working classes. Mr Dan Godfrey is sixty-six, and i 3 the oldest bandmaster in the service of the Army, The age limit (of sixty) has, indeed, been specially prolonged in his case at the request of the Queen. Mr Godfrey was always a favourite of Her Majesty—who conferred upon him in the Jubilee year the rank of lieutenant—as well as of the late Prince Consort, by whom he was appointed bandmaster of the Grenadier Guards. Mr Godfrey was then a young man of twenty-five, having just completed his education at the Royal Academy of Music, and his first duty was to direct the music played by the band on the entry of the Brigade of Guards into London at the close of the war with Russia,