WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES. (From Our Own Correspondent.)

Otago Witness, Issue 2404, 29 March 1900, Page 10

WELLINGTON NEWS NOTES. (From Our Own Correspondent .)

WELLINGTON, March 20. Mr Pirani, M.H.R., has met with another bicycle accident, somewhat -similar to the one which laid him aside at the be-< ginning of last session, in a collision with a! horse and trap. He had a bone in his shoulder broken and his cqllarbone fractured.

In conversation with a. Post reporter, tha judge of last week's band contest. Mr E. T. Code, expressed himself as delighted with some of the music he has heard, and} said that, generally speaking, the contest compared well with Australian contests: Mr Code is the leader of a private band/ in Melbourne, and has been the adjudicator at three Australian contests There is, in his opinion, no band in Australia to com-« pare with the Wellington G-arrison Band, and -when asked why Mr Herd's men did not prove this at Bathurst, he said:'. "That's a mystery to more than myself who have heard them. It is a beautiful' band." Mr Code went on to say that all the four bands placed on the top of his list on Saturday — Wellington, Wanganui, North-East Vplley, and Nelson — were quite up to the standard of the best bands in. Australia. At the social given to Mr> Code by the Garrison Band last night, the chairman said he would like to see the Band Association appoint a judge for a term of four 3 r ears, so that the competing; bands would know the class of musical judge for whom they had to prepare. Bands found it awkward playing one year to what is termed an " orchestral " judge and the next year to a " brass band expert."