JOTTINGS FROM WELLINGTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4661, 1 March 1894, Page 2

JOTTINGS FROM WELLINGTON.

[By Our Own Correspondent,] Tk Dairy Industry Ad kirn triclly cnforced.-Cool Stoorage,-A Growing 'trade.-A Musical Festival -A Tali About Mim Hath Chams," at Times. The Dairy Industry Aot is being wy strictly enforced now at the chief ihipping ports. Only the other day ; leveral parcels of butter,' ready for shipment by. the " Ruahme," wero ioudemnod as not being packed, mariea and graded in accordance with ibe provisions of the Aot. It will, therefore behovo shippers in yonrj iistrict to Bee tliht they ibe Act in every particular, othetwisa they will have that very aoute man, Mr Valentine, the new dairy expertj down on them pretty smart. It will pay owners, or managers ptfootories to " mug'up " the Act a authorities ate not going to alio? any infringement to take place, and ignore anco of the law will be no excuse. It must be recognised that this is the right course to Cuke, an unless great care is exercised in the matter butter trade with the old countnjfl soon be a thing of tbe goose that laid the yery nearly killed in the flax industry, and be are quite right aot or wilful tho prospeots of what very valuable shape of dairy produee^^^HH Mr Valentine, Sawers as big very good this important are loyally supported by there is no doubt that a is ahead, which proportions second only in to the frozen meat and What are really very badly in Wellington are cool bers in connection with the Board's warehouses. It is difficult matter to obtain coo! at tlw freezing works, and I there is only one private in Wellington which provides chambers for dairy produce, The Harbour Board purpose very shortly to erect the necessary cool ■ storage accommodation and I believe the new Railway Coinmis&ioners are thinking of doing the same in oon* section with tho goods station in Wellington. Agitation should also be made for cool storage on tho trains, for I am reliably informed that muoh daniuga is done to suoh a perishabla commodity as butter through it. being dumped down in the ordinary goods waggons. It iB true -the journey is not long, but it is quite long enough to deteriorate the quality of the butter unless tho greatest care is exercised.

It is proposed to hold in WellingtOD, duiiog the coining winter, a • musical festival on a large soale, which will even be an enlargement on the vory successful "affair which took-place. Borne five years ago, the distinguishing feature of which was the production of Sullivan's tnapnifioent cantata, "The Golden Legend," It is not propoßedj on the present occasion, to attempt to interpret too much the difficultmusknif "The Grand Old Mastors," but rather to cater for the popular ear in tlie shape of compositions of a lighter, more tuneful and less technical nature, In this resolve tbo promoters are very wise, for nine-tenths of the average public yawns its head off at musical -performances, wherein the "bards sublime" take the chief hand. One requires to be mußioally educated to stand the strain of"linked sweetness long drawn out" when one doesn't understand the wonderful technique,which is being illustrated. It is juHt like reading ono of grand old Homer's sonorous poems to a man who haß never learnt a word of Greek, fhe poem may be fine and the theme , may be noble and soul-inspiring, but how can he enjoy it if the language iB not understood by him ?

In Germauy, tkeae musical feßti—wis aro great events. They are held regularly at stated intervals in vari» oua centres, and the people come from far and near to take part in them, Every little village and hamlet in the vioinity Bonds up its quota of singers or instrumentalists. The pieces are given out months before-hand, and in evory village may be heard at the close of ihe day's work the sounds of the preparation which is going on to enable the selected few to tako parti J the« nmikfesl" in the distant citjj By theße means a love of musio stilled into the peoplo. It is see such an attempt- being ro&dfll here, for after all musio is the greatest of all elevating, civilizing and refining influences. Various novelties are to bo introduced in the shape of male part singing competitions, as in Germany, and handsome prizos are to be offered. Perhaps some of the Glee Oluba in the Wairarapa may feel S~ posed to take part, in whiohoaso J. should adviße them to comtuunioafce with the directors. Particulars will very shortly lie made public. Every effort will be made to obtain the best musical talent avoilablo in the colony, and if the people of only Bupport will remembered The g

day's takings, usually palm off on a deluded publio what is mis-named as a "sacred ooncort," this, of course, in doferenca to the clay. The rosult is something really dismal, worse, if anything than the usual doleful English Sabbath entertainments. The " aacredacsa 11 consists in tho performers donning their storu clothes and either howling laughably lugubrious jubilee songs of doubtful sanctity, or else in wrestling with oratorio viorceaux which they have no more idoa of tendering than a eow has. A charge can legally be made for this sort of stuff, but if a seoular concert was charged for the police would also possibly make a charge of a different l nature in the R.M, Court tho next K morning. Mr Frank t M. Clark, bowever, knows a thing or two worth Hnigprathajitbk Ho does not charge, collection. You oan give something or nothing as you like, and most of tho audience did give, as they did not like to seem mean. There was, howover, distinctly no A 8 to tho " Rational as far as the choice of selections was concerned, but the young lady who warbles " Daisy Boll" in a short dress on week days is not quite equal to, say, " A che la morte" with the assistance of an " up to HHnjLfrock on a Sunday evening. who was so good in in say " Killarafter. Of course, the a anywhat they are dotoji, cii cos in San for the same would far rather in my night there there be is, to use a homely phrase, the offertory of Alhahibrs artists passable in their way song and dance l»usicork comicalities, or Irish but thoy did not 611 my ■■HH joy over their " rational BSH^K;enin;'s" performance.