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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 290, 4 December 1920, Page 13

Next Thursday evening in the Town Hall Mr. F-. H. Portere. the Canadian ex-medium, will g've a lecture controverting the spiritnial : st propaganda of Si.r Arthur Conan Doyle. The box plan is ut Lewis Eady. Ltd.' William Fred Hallaway, a fireman on the railway, was sentenced at Christchurch yesterday to a month's imprisonment for the theft of a case of benzine, the property of tlie Railway Department. —Press Association. •'For the sake of the dignity of this city, and of the South Island,"' said the Mayor of Cliristchurch yesterday, "it is up to us to make the question of a ViceRegal residence a vital question. A letter is being sent to-day to Captain Curtis, asking for full requirements of his Excellency regarding house and grounds. A letter is also being sent to the Prime Minister on the subject. Various properties for the Governor-General's residence are under consideration in Christchurch, but the question of their suitability is uncertain." —Press Association. Strawberries dropped fully 25 per cent, wholesale at auction to-day over the prices ruling on Friday. The prospects are that heavy quantities of this fruit j will come to hand next week. The bad j weather limited supplies and kept prices up. With the present finer weather, strawberries are coming in with a rush, and necessarily prices eased. At to-day's | sales wholesale rates were from 1/ tb f 1/3. . I This morning a mild sensation was | created at the Auckland post office by , the launching and sudden precipitation of the first batch of the "Observer" j Christmas Annuals. It has made its appearance —bigger, better, brighter than ever. "Bio" has excelled himself in his ! humorous sketches and entertaining cartoons. The letterpress is bright and and illustrations. In an age of proftseer- . ing the Annual will come as a surprise, breezy, interspersed with seasonable verse and make one wonder at its cheapness. ' It is a foregone conclusion that the issue will rapidly sell out. Therefore, it behoves one to secure a copy without delay. It iB on sale everywhere for one shilling. (Ad.) j,