A VOICE OF GOLD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13487, 30 July 1907, Page 2

A VOICE OF GOLD.

CHANCE DISCOVERY OF A SUPERB TENOR. Wakefield is taking great interest in the discovery that one of its humble inhabitants possesses one of the finest tenor voices ever heard in Great Britain. He is Horace Potts, a local tramdriver, earning 25s a week,' and still at Mork. The discovery was made by a happy chance v quite recently. Potts sang at a dinner given by his employers, where a well-known local singer heard him. She asked him to sing at a public concert she was organising, and he consented. Among those present was Miss Milnes* Gaskell, the daughter of the chairman of the West Riding County Council. So impressed was she that she drew the attention of her mother, Lady Catherine Milnes Gaskell, to the tram-driver with the beautiful voice. Lady Milnes Gaskell heard him sing, and at once came to the conclusion that his voice was one of superb quality. She says : — "I got his employer to send him up i •to London, and then was fortunate enough to get some of the critics to hear him sing. After doing so, the great voice specialist, Mr Beigel, generously volunteered to train him for nothing if I could raise the necessary maintenance fund, which will amount to some hundreds, as the expenditure- must cover a space of over three years." Potts has no knowledge of music, but, adds Lady Gaskell, "the critics believe that with proper training he has a great future before him." Those who are well posted as to the best means of relieving pain and curing sores, wounds, or burns, always use Chamberlain's Pain Balm. They insist there is nothing like it. For sale by all dealers.