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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 3

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The following item in the home news will be read by many with great concern:—Miss Frances Hodgson Burnett met with a serious accident while driving on October 6th, near her house in Sussex. She was thrown from her pony equipage and was picked up unconscious. At last accounts her condition was serious.

From a notice in a recent issue of the Australian Trades and Labor Journal, we learn that Mr James Clarence Hart has ceased to he managing director of the company, and has no longer any business connexion with it. There has been a little falling-off in the quality of the machine-work in the late issues, as compared with the earlier numbers; but under the able editorship of Mr S. T. Stevens a high literary standard (except in the original stories) is maintained.

There is an old story of Astley, who insisted on his trombone-player playing throughout the piece, and when the unhappy performer pointed out the « rests » in his part, roughly reminded him that he « was paid to play and not to rest. » The Wellington Times has matched this anecdote with one from the parade-ground. The inspector, a martinet, whose trained eye was sharper than his ear, noticed a euphonium player whose instrument was sharper than the rest, and who consequently had the slide a long way out. He ordered it to be pushed in to correspond with the others, and refused to hear any explanation, exclaiming angrily: « Put the thing in, sir, I'd as soon see a bayonet half-out of its sheath! » And the slide was put in, and the band played on, to the anguish of the conductor, the amusement of the audience, and the entire satisfaction of the inspector.