The Phonograph

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 53, 22 October 1892, Page 2

The Phonograph

Residents of Feilding will be afforded an opportunity on Wednesday evening next of hearing Edison's Latest Loud Exhibition Phonograph, with which Professor Archibald intends giving an entertainment in the Assembly Rooms. Those who have an opportunity of hearing the Professor's terse and interesting lecture and also the . marvellous power of the phonograph on his first visit to Feildiug Borne eighteen months ago will be interested to see the great improvements made in the machine by its inventor during that time, which now can truly be said to be the marvel of the nineteenth century. As Professor Archibald's is the only exhibition machine in the Southern Hemisphere, and as he has been re-called with the machine by the Edisou United Phonograph Co., advantage should be taken of hearing this model of science and mechanism. Other phonographs may be exhibited, but they are not exhibition phonographs, nor are they authorised by the Edison United Phonograph Co., or with their knowledge or consent. During a recent visit through India and the East, Professor Archibald took some rare records, including songs by the prima donnas of the principal theatres of Calcutta and Bombay, Parsee songs, etc., which have never before been heard in the Southern Hemisphere. Besides these will be reproduced on Wednesday evening an important message from His Excellency the Governor to the people of New Zealand, in which he (the Governor) expresses his delight at being thus afforded an opportunity of addressing the people all at once through the medium of the phonograph. During the recent highly-successful season just terminated in Wellington, records were taken of the Garrison Band, Jupp's Private Band, also a eulogy on Sir George Grey by Mr Fisher (M.H.R.) All these, with gems of vocal and instrumental music collected trom all parts of the world, will be re-produced on Wednesday evening next. Mr Keating, the business manager, arriyed in town yesterday, and is busily engaged in making preparations for the approaching visit. He informs us that Bulls will be visited on Thursday, and Marton on Friday.