The voice of Robert Browning was reproduced by the phonograph on the first anniversary of the poet's death. One night in April, 1889, Browning repeated some of his own poetry into the machine, and the waxen cylinder has been untouched till a gathering of friends at Mr Haweis' house enjoyed the rare experience of hearing " the sound of a voice that is still." This reminds us of the fact that Sir George Grey has left a message to the people of New Zealand to be repeated on the phonograph after his death. It is now being jealously guarded in the Auckland library. It is estimated that there are still in New Zealand nearly fourteen hundred million feet of Kauri timber still uncut. Twenty years it is believed will see the last of it put through the Saw Mills. In looking over the Gazette we notice that a Royal Commissiou has been set up consisting of Messrs Mueller and Tregaar, to inquire into the state of the kauri gum industry, and the condition, and status of persons engaged therein. The Commisioners will start by taking evidence at Dargiville on the 18th inst.—" Kapai." ' Owing to the "Grip," which Sir Robert Stout has contracted, (on Wanganui) the unveiling of the late Premier's statue has been indefinitely postponed. . We are sorry indeed to hear that Judge Ward is laid up with influenza. News reaches us that most of the officers of the Native Land Court, Wellington, are also in the fashion. The old saying goes: " You might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion," but perhaps this is very poor consolation to those afflicled. California's latest sensation is a venerable lady who claims to have been kissed by George IV. of England, and wooed by the third Napoleon. The Queen always sleeps in a wooden bed of a particular shape, and made up in a special way, and whenever Her Majesty goes to a strange place, a bed and its furniture are despatched from Windsor for her use. Many a man who is a good shot in this world hopes to miss fire in the next.
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Jubilee : Te Tiupiri, Volume 1, Issue 3, 18 January 1898, Page 7
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358Untitled Jubilee : Te Tiupiri, Volume 1, Issue 3, 18 January 1898, Page 7
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