(1) Sir Landon Ronald, conductor of the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra since 1906. (2) The Treaty of Ghent, signed in that Belgian city on December 24, 1814, marked the official closing of the war of 1812-14 between England aud Canada on the one side and the United States on the other, since when there has been unbroken peace. (3) In Saxon times judges were not allowed to wear gloves, and the custom of presenting a pair of white gloves to the judge when there are no criminal cases dates from this period. (4) Narcissus, in the Greek legend, fell in love with his own reflection and, gradually pining away, was metamorphosed in the flower we now know by his name.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 216, 26 August 1927, Page 4
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