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Otago Witness, Issue 2400, 1 March 1900, Page 10

A MUSICAL EDUCATION FOR HALF A CROVfN. SHOULD BE IN ALL HOMES WHERE THERE IS A PIANO OR ORGAN. f^n"HE above heading will, of coarse, appear to JL most people as the height of absurdity, .vet the absurdity is more apparent thaa real. Ifc goes without saying ihafc a finished musical education in fche regular course cannot be had fora crown, or even with several hundred addi- ! tional crowns, but can it be truthfully said that fche pers on with a sufficient knowlodge of music to play accompaniments readily oa the piano or organ to all tbe popular &nd standard songs of the d&y has no musical education ? Assuredly not. A musical education sufficient to enable one to play correctly accompaniments to the songs snug in the home frequently gets and gives more pleasure from the modest accomplishment; than does the acquhenaents o£ many on whose education large sums have been expended. To the more modest musical education the above heading applies. Such an education the Otago Witness is now enabled to offer its rpusic-loving readers for half a crown, the publishers having recently decided to reduce the price to that &urn. This ready-made musical education consists of Pratfc's Chart of Chords for the Piano and Organ, which is the nearest approach to a "ready-made knowledge of music yet attained by science. Ifc is a short cut to harmony, and is to music what fche multiplication table is to arithmetic — a quick method ef learning to play the Piano or Organ without a teacher. With thia chart anyone can with bub a small amount of practice beeorce an expert accompanist. Ifc is ccmpleteefclf-inslructor, enabling anyone to play without difficulty accompaniments to any song ever wiitten. Ifc is valuable to the advanced musician as well as the beginner, embracing nearly 6very major and minor ohord used in music, and is endorsed by teachers and musiciacs everywhere. 'Ibis chart is the practical result of years of study by Charles B. Pratt, the noted American compiler and mu.siciaD, whoss compositions have world-wide popularity and a larger sale than those of any other American or European composer. Believing tbafc the educational and pleasuregiving value of this Chart is very great, the Otago "Witness has arranged with the publishers to supply Prafct's Chart of Chords to its readers at Half a Grown each, and in addition to the Chart of Chords tbe 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 Bocgs are old-time favourites long out of print that can be obtained in no other way. Every home that has a piano or organ, especially where thero are children, should have Pratt's Chart of Cuords. Address, with postal notes to value of 2n 6d, with l£d tor postage, Publishers Otago Witi ness, Dunedin.

Mr James Allen's election expenses in the election for Bruce were as follows: — Clerks, £25 ; rent of rooms, £8 1] s 6d ,* advertising (various papers), £28 9s; buggy hiro, £27 14s od ; sundry payments, £8 16s ; rooms (various payments under 40s), £\6 ; total, £114 11s. A peculiar death occurred at tho Melbourne Hospital on the 4th inst. On the 2nd Christina Holt, aged 18, whilst endeavouring to ride a man's bicycle, dashed into a kerbstone and fractured her ankle. She appeared to be going on very well, when suddenly, to the surprise of the doctors and all ooucernecUjhs became delirious and died,.