BOWLING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7386, 12 February 1902, Page 2

BOWLING.

Replies have been received from various clubs cordially agreeing to proposed visit of Hawera club, and there is strong probability that three rinks will be sent. It is proposed to play Palmerston on 25th February, Feilding on 26th, and Wanganui on 27th.

Mr G. Syme has presented to the Hawera club a handsome gold medal for competion. ' This trophy was brought out from Scotland by Mr Syme, and the winner will have a valuable prize.

A cable message on Saturday told us that an insurance agent has been sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment at Edinburgh for forging a will purporting to be that of Mr Johnstone, the hermit of Lathriak. Mr George Johnstone, of Lathrisk, Fifeshire, was known as " The Fife Millionaire Hermit." Mr Johnstone died a year ago, apparently leaving no will, and the succession, so far as the entailed estate was concerned, fell to Lieutenant Mackgill Crichton, a nephew, who was then serving in the Soudan. On December 14th, however, a will made by the late Mr Johnstone in 1869 was found tightly sewn inside the lining of a dress which originally belonged to a lady who died twenty-five or twentysix years ago. The dress, it appeared had passed to a niece, who died about thtea years back. It was being unstitched when the discovery was made. The will bequeathed £850,000 to Miss Anne Preston, an old love of the hermit. But as Miss Preston died in 1866, and as paper making experts proved the paper on which the will was made to be only two years old, and to be " faked " by dirt and water, the genuineness of the document was doubted.

In reference to the new sovereigns bearing the King's face and new title, the abbreviation "Britt." in the title has given rise to a discussion as to the spelling of the word Britannia, and the following explanation in a recent Melbourne exohange should prove interesting : " The correot spelling of the full word for "Britain" is Britannia, and the correot appreviation for this in the singular is Brit., with a single final consonant, but in the King's title the word is plural ('of the Britains'), and for the Latin of this viz., Britanniarum, the conventional abbreviation requires the doubling of the last consonant, i.e., Britt. The doubled consonant is not intended to imply any such spelling as Brittaniarum, but is simply a sign that the word is to be read as plural. In the same way, if L. or Leg. stands for "law," the plural sign is LL. or Legg. In the cateohism NorM ib for N or NN("name or names"). Similarly p. ia " page." but pp. i B•• pages."

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