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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 10, 26 September 1879, Page 3

It is all wrong to let our cliurcl choirs go off singing in the opera oi " Pinafore" between Sundays. A dreadful thing recently happened n this account at a Californian funeral. The pastor, a tall, whitehaired man, much resembling an admiral, rose in his pulpit, and no sooner finished, in a sing-song tone, the remark, "We miss his presence in his usual haunts," than the choir sprang to their feet and'shouted in return, "And so do his sisters and his cousins and his aunts."—Milwaukee Sontinel. A Musical Madman.—King Louis of Bavaria now treats himself nearly every week to an exclusive grand opera. He won't have another soul in tk£* auditorium ; observing one night lately that his superintendent of theatres, Baron von Perfall, had ventured to remain in one of the boxes during the c performance, he addressed him aloud and ordered him -out. A footman stays outside in the passage to convey after each scene the King's praise or blame to the artists. Any singer who chances to displease the musical autocrat is immediately dismissed.