should be no surprise that almost every piece was asked for and given a second time, or some substitute for it.
An Instrumental Concert took place in the Music Hall on the 21st of September, by "Dr. Mark and his Little Men", a troupe of twenty juveniles who gave evidence of good training.
With two more high-class concerts Messrs. Lockey and Lindridge delighted full audiences at the Music Hall on the 11th of November.
Hoffman's Organophonic Band surprised and delighted good audiences at the Music Hall on the 22nd and 23rd of August with their perfectly harmonious imitation of nearly every musical instrument in common use; and that of the hrp was particularly noticeable. Although so novel and unique a performance, it was not altogether unlooked for by some of our St. Leonards people, of whom it is but just to say, that among them were T. B. Brett, H Brett (now in New Zealand) Fredk Pulford and one or two others who before the visit of Hoffman's vocal band, had learnt to imitate such instruments as the cornopean, flute and trombone. The first names had taken the idea, several years before from a ventriloquist for whom he had played as a musician at the Pelham Arcade, and the utility of such an acquirement may be imagined from the fact that on one occasion when, in a pitiless storm of wind and rain, a violinist was unable to get to a quadrille party for which he was engaged at Mr. Lye's in High street, the dancers were kept going all the evening by the organophonist and his guitar. The same thing was frequently and almost regularly done for the executants own weekly quadrille meetings in Norman road; and those persons who have read the earlier volumes of this history, will, doubtless remember how at an Oddfellows' Ball at the Assembly Rooms, while the musicians were at supper, three sets of that Norman road quadrille party (as pre-arranged) danced to new figures, and new tunes, the latter produced only by their vocal powers, which evoked a clamour for repetition. Here, then, was a decidedly useful application of mimicry, and one instance in which it may be said that the borough of Hastings was not a hundred years behind.
Vestry Meetings
At the All Saints meeting on April 15th, a poor-rate at one shilling was figured, and at the St. Clements vestry, the overseers said a fourteen penny rate was necessary.
Equalisation of Rates. At a vestry meeting of St. Clements, by requisition on March 9th, Mr. Joseph Brown stated that not-
