DUNEDIN COMPETITIONS SOCIETY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 66

DUNEDIN COMPETITIONS SOCIETY.

The committee of tho Competitions Society wrote to the musical judge {Mr W. Arundel Orchard, of Sydney) and the elocutionary jud-ge (Mr J. Howlett Rose, of JTelbourne) asking them for their mode of marking, and has received the follow- * in* replies: — Mr Orchard states that he will mark as follows : — Accuracy, tempo, rhythm, 25 ; intonation, touoh (on piano), 10; prounuciation, pedals (piano) or bowing (violin), 10 ; attack, attitude or balance (choral)^ 10; phrasing, accent, enunciation, 20 ; interpretation, expression, tone, quality, 25. Total, 100. The adjudicator in the elocutionary items (Mr Ross) desires it to be known- that while he employs his own standard of criticism of interpretations, and which standard has stood the test of many thousands of comjMJtitors in Australia, its basal principles are sufficiently indicated in the schemes tabulated for the competitions of 1908 to warrant competitors pursuing their studies on tho same lines as heretofore. The following is the line on which the elocution items were judged last year: — Gesture and deportment, 10; quality of voice (production, etc.), 15 ; inflexion and modulation. 20; enunciation, articulation, 25; pronunciation, 30; syllabic and oratorical accents, emphases of sense and feeling, 20: rhetorical, rhythmical, and emotional pauses and punctuation, 20; general conception and interpretation, 60. Total, 200.

A stray cow caused eomo little stir in Winton on Friday when, having broken away from a. mob, she calmly walked into a drapery establishment. Whether the scared shop assistants or the unexpected and unwelcome visitor were most surprieed ia not known, but the consternation of the ladies caused the animal to turn round in the narrow spaoa available and hurriedly depart.