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Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1926, Page 3

r.AHCIF. WOOhSHKD T) KSTHOYF.T). IILKXHKIM, March 11. A Hip ill tliive o'clock this morning destroyed a large woolshed, engine Inmi-v* and a stack of peas, at Benopai .station. Wailiopai. which is owned hv \\ . (> Rudd, The .shell was capable of accommodating MOO sheep and ton stands for the shearers. The engine house contained a ten horse power Tangye' engine and ten AVolsely shearing machines. 'l'lie Woolshed contained a quantity of grass and clover seed, tents, horsecovers, chaff-cutters, saw hench. woolpress. weigh tor and sundry tools. Kvervthing was Totally destroyed. The origin of the lire is a mystery. ddic damage is estimated at £2.n00, while the insurances are: Woolshed and engine house, 1000, engine £ldo, machines £l.Vi, all in the Alliance Office.

FROM THE SLUMS. GIFTED CHILDREN. LONDON. .lan. 28. Twenty children from the slums and poorer districts of London appeared at a. reception given in a house near Hyde Park, and astonished a critical gathering of musicians by their remarkable musical gifts. Some of them were acclaimed as geniuses at the piano keyboard. One of tbe children, the ten-year-obl daughter of a dock labourer, displayed brilliant talent. Another was discovered in a shun basement in Netting Dak 1 giving lessons on a cracked piano to other children at a penny a time.

The children were some of those recently “discovered” under the new •educational scheme !in which Mine. Lcvinskaya. the pianist. Lady Lawrence of Kingsgate. Mrs Inge, Mr Israel Zangwill, Miss Baden-PoweL and others are interested. Tt is proposed to find poor children who have no chance to develop their musical talent, and to train them in tbe technique of the Russian school of pianists.

The girls had “Sunday ribbons” in

their hair, and the boys unaccustomed stiff collars. One girl played Bach and another Beethoven. A bov of nine amazed tbe critics by playing a Mozart sonata with perfect tone-colour and unhalting rhythm.

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