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Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 44, 10 August 1872, Page 2

The Duke of Edinburgh is about to become one of the executant members of the Civil Service Musical Society. The Duke, according to the Civilian, proposes to take part in the weekly rehearsals at King's College, London, in the capacity of a violinist, and is expected to take his seat in the orchestra at an early date. A portion of his Royal Highness's collection (which was recently on view at the South Kensington Museum is to be sent to the Dublin Exhibition, which will be opened by the Duke next month. The Duke's public duties, many of them undertaken for the Prince of Wales, and all of them genially performed, will extend to the middle of June, at which date he leaves for Berlin. In the course of excavations at Capua, a prize vase has recently been found, which was won at the gymnastic sports at Athens in the year 332 b.c. The skeleton that lay in the tomb beside it is probably that of the yvinner. Unlike our costly cups, it is simply an ampliora of clay, with a painting on each side. Oq the front-is. written the name of the chief magistrate-of Athens for the year, and the words " A Prize fjxHit Athena.''