WAS IT A BOGUS ANTIQUE ?

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 49, 26 August 1905, Page 5

WAS IT A BOGUS ANTIQUE ?

A CUBATOR DISMISSED. MR. PIERPONT MORGAN USES HIS INFLUENCE. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.! (Received August 26, 8.47 a.m.) NEW YORK, 25th August. Mr. Pieipont Morgan ha& secured the dismissal of Mr. Ehvell, Curator at the New York Art Museum, for consigning to a lumber room' a bronze statue of Caius Vibius Gallus, who held a high command in the expedition of the Roman Emperor Decius against the Goths in 251, and after the defeat and death of the latter was elected Emperor by the Senate and the soldiers, with Hostilianus, Decius's son, as his! colleague), on the ground that it was worthless, though it cost Mr. Morgan £10,000. The newspapers condemn Mr. Morgan for using his influence to enforce tho acceptance of a questionable article. EPIDEMIC IN HEW ORLEANS. SPREAD OF THE LISEASE. iPhesp association."] (Received August 26, 8.34 a.m.) NEW YORK, 25th August. Yellow fever is spreading in New Orleans. The medical authorities believe there are a thousand cases in Louisiana. It is unlikely that the epidemic will bo stamped out till the weather is colder. MEAT FAME. ♦ INDIGNATION IN GERMANY. [rRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 26, 8.47 a,m.) BERLIN, 25th August. Indignation meetings are spreading throughout Germany in connection with the meat famine.-. A demand is being mndc for the admission of foreign meat into the country. ' DISASTROUS HURRICANE. — * DAMAGE AT MARSHALL ISLANDS. LOSS OF LIFE. [press assooiatiok."! SYDNEY, 25th August. Details of the late hurricane at the Marshall Islands show that sevonty-one lives were lost. Jaluit was almost completely submerged. A tidal wave six feet high swept over the island, leaving devastation in .its track. At the Jaluit Company's big jetty all floating plant was awept awny. There wos great destruction of copra. The only houses left standing are the Governor's and a portion of the mission station, where many natives took refuge. NEW ZEALAND HARBOURS. ARE THEY DEFENCELESS? [press association.! LONDON, 25th August. iMr. Alexander Joyce, in the course of a letter in The Times in Tsply to ■a recent ''otter in the same newspaper by Sir Arthur Douglas, formerly Undersecretary of Defence in Now Zealand, argues that tTio harbours of New Zealand aie practically defenceless. Messrs. Thomson and Brown call attention to thoir auotion salo at Dix'a Theatro Royal on 30th Aughsfc. On that dato the firm will submit a block of land at tlio cornor of Ghuzneo and Marion streets, five sections in all. Also (under instruction!! from tho mortgagco) section 12, Mortimororcicont, having an area of 34 perches, and section 27, having a frontage of 53ft by a depth of 170 ft (irregular) ; a 5-roomod dwelling in Manefiold-stroet j a 5-roomod' dwolling and jshop at Dorhampore ; a now 6-roomed villa, Clyde-street, Island Bay; uoinor. ,iito, Constables and Owon streets, with 5-roomed dwelling and shop; 5-room-cd dwelling ufc Borhamporo (a telophono bureau ana dobl oifico aro attaohod to th<> promises) ; also, in Conntablo-stroot, a sroomed villu. They also insort a, special advertisement of interest to owners of property in Thorndon and Mount Victoria, etc. Their changed advertisomont of properties open for privato treaty appears oleowhoro. t It in announced Hint the next term of Mi«s O. Haydcn'a privato school at St. James's Schoolroom, Lower Hutt, is 10 % begin on tho 14th pros.