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Otago Witness, Issue 2363, 8 June 1899, Page 10

A MUSICAL EDUCATION POX HALF A CROWN. SHOULD BE IN ALL HOMES WHERE i HERE IS A PIANO OB ORGAN. TS^IIE above heading will, of courie, appear to JL mogfc people as the height oE absurdity, yet ihe absurdity is more apparent than real. It g( i-s without saying that a finished musical educH ion in the regular course cannot be had for a • rown, or even with several hundred addition crowns, but can it be truthfully said that the " rs on with a sufficient knowledge of mus'C to j < >y accompaniments readily oa tbe'piauo or OTge-n to all the popular and standard songs of the day £ a s no musical education ? Assuredly not. A musical education sufficient to enable one to plaj' correctly accompaniments to the son< s sung in the home frequently gets and giv. ■ more pleasure from the modest accom-pHs-ament than does the acquirements of many or. whose education large sums hava been expended. To the .more modest musical education the above beading applies. Such an education the Otago Witness is now enabled to offer its mugic-loving readers for half a crown, the publishers having recently decided to reduce the price to t>hafc sum x - v This ready-made musical education consists ■>' Pratt's Chart of Chords for the Piano and Organ, which is the nearest approach to a ready-made knowledge of music yet attuine by science. It is a short cnt to harmony, and is to mnsi what the multiplication table is to arithmetica 'quick method of learning to play the Pi an or Organ without a teacher. With this chart anyone can with but a Rma amount of practice become an expert accoa panist. It is complete self-instructor, e.nablin anyone to play without difficulty accompan ments to any song ever written. It is valuab] to the advanced musician as well as the bi ginner, embracing nearly avery major and mine chord used in music, and is endorsed b teachers and musicians everywhere This chart is the practical result of year* c study by Charles E. Pratt, the noted America composer and musician, whose compositior have world-wide popularity and a larger sal than those of any other American or Europea composer. Believing that the educational and pleasun giving value of this Chart is very grea the Otago Witness has arranged with tb publishers to supply Pratt's Chart of Chords \ its readers at Half a Chown ftacb, and i addition to the Chart of Chords the publishe have kindly agreed to send without extra cbarj a copy of the^ Book of Songs, containing \i songs, with words and music. Many of thei eongs are old-time favourites long out of prii that can be obiaiued in no other way. Every home that has a piano or organ, eepec ally ~ where there are children, should bai Pratt's Chart of Chords. ( Address, with postal notes to value of 2s 6( with l£d for postage, Publishers Otago Wr ness, Dunedin. THE TRUSTEES, EXECUTORS, & AGENCY GOMPAN OF NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED). SPECIALLY Empowered by Act of Parlii merit to act as • Executor, Trustees, K< ceiver, Liquidator, G-uardian, Committee unds the Lunatics Act, and Attorney under pow© in the same way as an individual, but unlike a individual the Company never dies nor leave the country, nor becomes incapacitated, and ii financial position io easily ascertained. Thi Company ia specially qualified therefore to v ior absentees. CAPITAL, (10,000 Shares of £5 Each.) TOTAL LIABILITY, JEIOO.OOO. Directors : E. B. Cargill, Esq., J. M. Ritcaii Esq., James Mills, Esq., P. C. Neill, Esq.., Joh Roberts, Esq., «T. R. Sinclair, Esq. - ' W. Lawbence Simpson, Manager. Office : xchange Buildings, Liverpool street, Dunedij 'Agent in London: H. J. Gibbs, Esq., 34 Leadenhall street, E.C. The Company collect rents, dividends, in,t< rest, or. other income, invest money, negotial loans, purchase and hell real and personal r< party, manage estates,'and generally act c agents. Forms, charges, and all other informatio can. bo obtained on application at tho oiuce < the Company or any of its agencies. Letters of naturalisation have been issue to Carl Wilhelm Brede, seaman, Dunedin Charles Baker, rabbiter, Waikaia; and Oh Sedel, seaman, Dunedin. A peasant 1 named Al^arko Civotic (says Vienna correspondent) has died at Magnoji vitch, in Bosnia, at the age of 122 years. H: descendants number over 40D.