Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 26 November 1891, Page 2

Notes and Events.

What every public body should do. We notice with regard to the question of advertising on telegraph posts, the Public Works Committee will recommend, at the meeting of the Wellington City Council on Thursday, that a communication be sent to the Postmaster-General, requesting that the advertising be not permitted in Wellington, as they consider it a great disfigurement. If such nocices will dish'gnre the poles in Wellington, they will elsewhere.

" aJaily lS v "ws," is a concert in which no fewer han four hundred pianoortes wiL be played simultaneously. The Ne^ York Automatic Piano ] Company intend to invite the lead- • ing manufacturers to send their ] pianos, four hundred or more of < which will be piled upon each other " in pyramid form. To each will be ( attached an electric automatic play- ■ ing device. All the instruments will i thus be connected electrically, and i will be played simultaneously by a single performer. English music < lovers will probably rejoice, adds the ; " Daily News," that the experiment is to be tried as far away as Chicago.

How true ! "I am afraid that we are going to have a long and very cold winter," suggested a middleaged man to the stranger who sat beside him in a railway car on the Harlem Road (says the New York Times). No response came from the stranger, who wore a tired look on his lace and did not appear to be sociable. " I say, I am afraid we will have a long and very coid winter " repeated the sociable passenger. •' Well, if that is worrying you," said the other man, arousing himself out of his reverie with a nervous jerk, "just go and give somebody a promissory note for four months for an amount larger than you can hope to pay. Then you'll find that this winter will pass away so quick that you won't have a chance to get cold."

At Otley (Yorkshire) the vicar is an open-air preacher. Every Sunday night, accompanied by curates, wardens, choristers, and a large body of workers, he conducts a service from eight to nine in the market place. The singing is lively and popular, the testimonies clear and earnest, and the address crisp, straight and telling.

Mr Louis John Crossley J.P. of Halifax, England, the inventor of the telephone "transmitter" has recently died at the early age of forty nine from an affection of the brain, brought on by overwork. Electricity was his great study and he received £20,000 for his above famous invention.

The Baptist Missionary Society is sending out to the Upper Congo a new steamer, the Goodwill. She weighs nearly twenty tons, and will be taken apart into small sections and transported on men's shoulders over the' 230 miles of Cataract country intervening between the lower and upper rivers. For the transport of this from one thousand to twelve hundred carriers will be required ahd when they have delivered their loads on the banks of the upper river, the work of reconstruction will be commenced. The steamer will be used for reaching unevangelised tribes of the Congo basin.