ORGAN RECITAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3101, 4 June 1917, Page 3

ORGAN RECITAL

Sir. Bernard Pago, city organist, grave his usual weekly organ recital in tlio 'i'oivn Hall on Saturday evening. The programmo choseu by Mr. Pago was excellent, and included Guilinant's "Sonata in C Minor" '(No. 5), Op. 80. Like to many of its predecessors, tlio programme also included Cesar lYanck number, "Pastorale" (Op. lfl). The delightful "Fountain Music" and "Duel" from "Polleiui and Melisande," added to the attractiveness of the recital. Also- on the programme were included Bach's

"Toccata and Fngue in D Minor" (Doria), ail "Elegie" by Claussmann, Scriabinc's "Prelude," ' and Salome's "Gothic >Atnrch."

Judging by the reports received by tho Commonwealth authorities from the Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, the task of civilising the natives, who arc of a most barbaric type, wilt be long and tedious (says the Melbourne "Ago"). In a recent exploratory tour, Judge Murray discovered a ghastly example of native art, consisting of a stuffed native head, painted in red, with yellow and black stripes. The native's frequenting the upper reaches of the.Strickland River were found to bo very wild and barbaric. Although armed with bows and arrows, they took fright at the approach of the_ white men, and fled in terror into the jungle. Further on, however, at tho mouth of the Herbert River, they were of a more hostile temperament, and fired at the party. A few shots sufficed to put them to flight. In isolated cases friendly relations wero established with the blacks, hut the absence of a common language in which to eonverse with_ them proved a handicap, and to avoid bloodshed, tho party continued on its Journey.' The natives are constantly warring among themselves, and in consequence tho population in the middle Strickland district is nomad in character.