PHONOGRAPH MESSAGE FROM THE LATE QUEEN.
One of the great achievements of Sir John Harrington, the new Minister Plenipotentiary to King Menelik, was to persuade her late Majesty Queen Victoria to speak into a phonograph a message to Menelik and his Empress. It was the only time she ever consented to such an experiment, and it was done then on the express understanding that when the message had been spoken the record should be destroyed. Menelik was so excited when he heard the great Queen's message in her own voice that he repeatedly stopped the machine in order to have a salute fired; and his Empress was so flattered to hear her own name mentioned that she called out her bodyguard as a mark of respect.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7683, 5 February 1904, Page 7
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126PHONOGRAPH MESSAGE FROM THE LATE QUEEN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7683, 5 February 1904, Page 7
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