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Otago Witness, Issue 2370, 3 August 1899, Page 10

A MUSICAL EDUCATION FOR HALF A CROW®!. j SHOULD BE IN ALL HOMES WHERE THERE IS A PIANO OR ORGAN. THE above heading will, of coarse, appear to most people as the height of absurdity, yet the absurdity is more apparent than real. It goes without saying that a finished musical education in the regular course cannot be had for a crown, or even with several hundred additional crowns, bat; can ifc be truthfully said that the pers on with a sufficient knowledge of music to play accompaniments readily oa tße piano or organ to all the popular and standard songs j i tit the day has no musical education P Assuredly I } not. A musical education sufficient to enable 3 one to play correctly accompaniments to the \ coDgs sang in the home frequently gets and i \ gives more pleasure from the modest accom- } | piishment than does the acquirements of many jon whose education large sums have been | expended. I To the more modest musical education the , { above heading applies. Such an education the Otago Witness is now enabled to offer ite music-loving readers for half a crown, the publishers having recently deoided to reduce the price to that sum. Thic ready-made musical education consists of Pratt's Charb of Chords for the Fiano and . Organ, which is the nearest approach to a ready-made knowledge of music yet attained by Btience. It is a short cut to harmony, and is to music what the multiplication table is to arithmetic — a quick method of learning to play the Fiano or Organ without a teacher. With this chart anyone can with but a small ' amount of practice become an expert accomI psniit. It is complete self-instructor, enabling ! anyone to play without difficulty accompani- { menta to aDy song ever written. It is valuable i to the advanced musician as well as the bel giDner, embracing nearly a very major and minor cbord used in music, and is endorsed by teachers aud musicians everywhere. This cbarb is the practical result of years of study by Charles E. Pratt, the noted American composer and musician, whose compositions have world-wide popularity and a larger sale than those of any other American or European composer. BelieviDg that the educational and pleasnregiviDg value of this Chart is very great, the Otago Witness has arranged with the publishers to supply Pratt's Chart of Chords to its readers at Half a Ceown each, aud in addition to the Chart of Chords the publishers have kindly agreed to send without extra charge a copy of the Book of Songs, containing 184songs, with words and music. Many of these songs are old-time favourites long out of print that can be obtaiued in no other way. Every home that has a piano or organ, especii ally where there are children, should have Pratt's Chart of Chorda. Address, with postal notes to value of 2s 6d, with lid for postage, Publishers Otago Witness, Uuuedin.

While the Rev. C. Griffin, "Woeleyan minister at Lecstou, was driving homo from Brookside on Sunday, and crossing* the Boyleston drain, his horso Hhied at some boys sitting oix the parapet of the large bridge, and jumped clean, over the Eide of the bridge with the dogcart into the drain, a drop of some 10ft. The dogcart and horse turned completely upside down, and Air Griffin was thrown out of the vehicle and landed under the horse's feet. Mr Griffin was a good deal bruised and knocked about, but was able to conduct his usual services. The trap was badly wrecked, but the horse escaped with a few scratches*