PALMERSTON'S CARNIVAL QUEEN

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2201, 14 July 1914, Page 5

PALMERSTON'S CARNIVAL QUEEN

I EXTRAORDINARY EXCITEMENT. 1 i By Telteraph.—Special Oorrespondent.. j , , Pa!mof3ton Nofth, July 13. -.-.The. chicf feature .ui • the carnival queen voting was"tho disclosure that tlio sports clubs had made their candidate, Miss Millar, who won tlio throne, "a dark horse," to yse sporting parlance. Only for about one week did they permit her to rise.above second place, but they held .back a prize packet of over 10.600 votes' to put in just prior to. the jnnal count on Saturday night. Thus more than oiio-third of . liOr total of 31,330 poll was deposited in that last Miss Taylor, who led for most of the period, received just under 4000 votes during tho last fow hours from her Friendly Societies—but the fact that she was defeated by only 1197 votes showed how uncertain the isStte really was .'The whole town Whs hioVed to extraordinary excitement, oven those ■who Wore wont to declare the entire | business "tommy rot" being unable to :j resist swelling the crowd which blocked > the inside and outside of the Opera -! House, waiting in tho rain for tliedc- ; claration of tho result. The coronation of Miss Millar bv the Mayor was very realistic. Mr. it. Haycock acted as herald. Tho stage manager, Air. William Olliver, and tho Mayor, Mr. J. A. Nasli, werO knighted. Prizes won durihg the carnival contests were presented. The total, queen vntw recorded amounted to 85,942..