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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5455, 6 January 1896, Page 2

Organ Becitai..— Mr Jesse Timson, of Dunedin, will give an organ recital in the Cathedral to-morrow evening. Mr Timson's selections for the organ will be from the works of Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Guilmant, Orison and others ; and Mr E. Lovell will sing " Comfort Te " and "Ev'ry Valley" (Messiah), "If With All Tour Hearts" (Elijah) and "King Ever Glorious " (Crucifixion). The offertory will be in aid of the organ fund. The largest telescope in the world has just been placed in position near Chicago. The aperture is 40in. and the length 64ft. The lenses, which weigh 6001 b, cost .£BOOO in the rough, and took eight years to finish. An even greater telescope is promised for the Paris exhibition of 1900. Two hospital nurses adopted a novel method of spending their fortnight's holiday. They hired a cottage in the country, and an old woman to attend on them. From the moment they entered the door until the time for departure came they were never seen, and the villagers naturally concluded that there was some mystery connected with them. Some even thought of consulting the police on the subject. On their way back to the railway station they called on the vicar to give him a trifle for his charities, and explained the secret. They were nurses, and had spent their whole time in bed. Accustomed to sleep in such snatches as they could get,ti heir notion of a holiday was a period of long and undisturbed repose.