THE MULLANY FUND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13859, 23 March 1907, Page 12

THE MULLANY FUND.

The following further contributions to the Mullany Fund are announced:—Collected per A. Paterson, AVaihola, £G; Hillside Workshops, £6 0." 4d; Boys' High School. £4 7s sd; Arthur Street School, £2 ss; ifacaudrew Road School, £1 13s 6d; Albany Street School. £1 as; Cavorshum 1 School, £1 12s; per Miss Fraser, Lovell's Flatj £2 16s Gd; per Julius Dunne, Post Office, £1 ss;- per James O'Neill, Momington, £2 -Is Gd; John Collins, fl Is; T. Deehon. 10s Od; per Joe Casey, 12s; F. Median, Kill" street, 10s; James Murphy, 10s Gel; Dresden Company, 10s Gd; Anonymous, 10s Gd; John Armstrong, 10s; T. Byrne, Waikouniti, £1; Burton Bros,, 17s; per P. Carolin, Us; Upper Junction School, as Gd; Mrs Lindsay, Port Chalmers, ss; Joseph Jlillar, ss; M. Mcenan, Moray place, as; Thomas Fitzgerald, 2s Gd; G. Hesford, 2s 6d; P. F., Is; liT Mulquin, 2s Gd;—total, £37 lis 3d; previously acknowledged, £104 lis Id. Total, .£142 2s"4d. As the tund is now closed, those holding subscription lists are requested to send them in, with returns, to the Rev. Father CoSev, Rattray strwt.

— Notwithstanding their simplicity, tlm .songs of birds cannot, bo corrcctly imitated with musical instruments because of the imptesibilit-y of reproducing their peculiar timbre. Tho notes of birds, while corresponding with our musical scale, also include v'brations occupying the intervals between our -notes. The duration of birds' songs greatly varies. It i 6 two or three seconds fcr thrushes and chaffinches, four to five seconds for blackcaps, but from two to five minutes for the lark,