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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 235, 30 March 1866, Page 3

" What's in a name " may be well asked on reading the following extract clipped from a recent notice of an amateur performance, appearing in a Nelson paper : — " The chorus 'Aldiborontiphoscoforniochrononhotonthologos' was so much liked that it cast a pleasing memory over the whole performance, and was most undeniably encored." Dr. Calcott, the author, as a musical composer, doubtless has many admirers, and our Nelson friends may have a peculiar aptitude for overcoming the difficulties of puzzling nomenclature ; but the " pleasing memory cast over the whole performance " seems somewhat mythical. At all events the individual attempting for the first time to recall to his memory the title of the chorus, immediately after opening his eyes in the morning, would berather an object of pity. A sheewd I'eeachee, after an eloquent charity sermon, said to his hearers, " I am afraid, from the sympathy displayed in your countenances, that some of you may give too much. I caution you, therefore, that you should be just before you are generous ; and wish you to understand that I desire no one ; who cannot pay his debts to put anything in the p^ate," T.he coUection was a rare