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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1705, 20 December 1919, Page 4

The Felton bequest lias purchased Parmiginiio’s “Baptism of Christ’’ (states a London cable). .

A poll was taken at Wanganui yesterday on a nroposal to borrow £140,000 ‘for tramways plant and extensions, the proposal being carried by a majority of two to one.

At- the Magistrate’s Court, Foxton yesterday L. Freeman, licensee of Whytes Hotel,’ who pleaded guilty, was fined £5 and costs for supplying Maoris with liquor on the day• of the Maori election—Press Association. An original edition of Shakespeare’S “Venus and Adonis’’ and “The Passionate Pilgrim” was auctioned at Sotheby s (London) and realised £15,100, a record pneo jor a, book. The purchaser' was Mr Huntington, of , the United States.

It was announced at a meeting of the Palmerston North Patriotic Society yesterday afternoon that two, troop trams would ho arriving in th,e town during the holidays—one on Christmas Day or the day afterwards and tho other on December 29. The secretary was empowered to conduct the usual arrangements for tho returning soldiers welcome in each case. \ case in which a young woman employed hv Messrs Waters, Ritchie and Co., of Dunedin, was charged with making an erroneous declaration to tho Customs Department, was heard before Mr J. R. Bartholomew. S.M.,’ at Dunedin yesterday. Flora Mac Donald was charged that she did unlawfully make a ; certain declaration under the. Customs Act,. 1913 which was erroneous within the meaning of Section 211 of tin’s Act and contrary, to the form ot statute. The firm of Waters Ritchie and (’<), was similarly charged. Tho girl MacDonald who .was authorised on behalf of the firm, was fined £25, and the firm mulcted for a . similar, amount.

A croquet match between a Palmerston North team and one from Dannevirke was played gt Dannevirke yesterday and resulted in a win for the latter team by one game. Mesdames Mcßae and Innes (A gi-jidclplayors) and Blythe and Hill (B C r J(, players) represented Palmerston'North. The following are the results: —Mrs Mcßae Iwat Mesdames- Class and Kerr; Mesdames Nvmand and Robertson .boat Mrs limes: Mrs Harris beat Mrs Blythe, and Mrs Hill defeated Mrs Hendry. In the doubles games Mesdames, Mcßae and Innes lost to Mesdames Nvmand and Robertson. The matron of tho Hospital desires to acknowledge the sum of IDs- from “Brother Bill” towards The children’s Christmas treat. The matron will be pleased to receive donations and: subscriptions towards tho patients Christmas ■ entertainment. It has been tho customJ for years past for citizens to remember those who are compelled to spend their Christmas in hospital away from the cheerful environment of their own homes, and -it is-to bo hoped that suitable gifts will bo freely made so that tho patients’ Christmas will be as bright as possible, and their afflictions made lighter on’ tho happiest of all days. A hoy about 14 years of ago, who escaped from the Weraroa training farm and was arrested in Palmerston North on a, charge of stealing £22 10s 8d and a metal watch from premises in Willis street, came before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at the Juvenile Court this morning. Senior-Sergeant Fraser explained that: the youth had spent £2 7s 3d on a suit of clothes, 13s on two shirts, 5s 6d on an electric' torch, and 2s 6d on a purse. The goods had been returned to the shopkeepers, who had refunded the whole of the amounts paid for them, with the result that £2l 15s lid of the stolen money was recovered, tho balance having been expended on meals. The accused was convicted and ordered to be returned (o the training farm, and- to be-punished there by the officer in charge of the farm.

A tent mission will4>e‘ held at Cuba street, commencing January 18, 1920. Special train services'for the Christmas ami New Year holidays are announced by the Railway Department. At the Cuba"'‘street; special Christmas carol service oh Sunday evening next the following will render. solos and duets: Mesdames Honking and Twigge, Misses Ferguson. Dodder, arid Killick; Messrs Nelson, Dahl, Pott-on and Ashcroft. There are few gifts that for beauty and utility meet with more appreciation tlian real antimony ware —specimen vases, trays, candlesticks, toilet boxes, fern bowls, photo frames; altogether a charming selection attractively priced at the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd., for Christmas.—Adyt.

“No Rubbing” laundry help makes happy housewives; ,1s . packet sufficient for seven weekly washings, t; W, Holland. —Advt. Give Rraby’s ahuninum cooking utensils to vour frineds for thojr Xmas, present. Braby’s aluminum saucepans and stewpons will stand the severest kind of usage and last for years, sokccpans 6s lid, 7s lid, to 23s 6d> stewpons 8s 6d to 21s 6d.~Collinson and Sqn’.g,-ril and King street, Palmerston -North,r^-Advt. A point for good housewives. Always use Sharland’jj ,balnrig' ; powder. Costs least; goes farthest; - gives' results.—Adrt.

The Grav scholarshipdhisyear hj« been m tit p & Should be worth up to £6O at Rangiotu last night of ,ho» intoe.tS in *J- ggg-V* Jickoll, in the course of his that the estimated cost of the scneme m embankments to bo er^\“‘ £ Vo C ff side of the river amounted to No information can bo obtained m official • iiTollinirton which will enable a quartex-s im VV g f the visit of the v8&»' Krhin .ad Kj# Z»‘T u is lertairi that the tour will taka place in 192 C, but tte prlS' ~ot be stated oven approximately at present. It was stated at the of the K ‘ capable * dedinff with 40,000 cubic yards of spoil per month. This dredge would be used in connection with the protection scheme at Makerua. . The Auckland Hockey Association haa decided that the recent resolutions of the Canterbury Association regarding the shield match over which there lias boon* good deal of controversy do not demands for an unreserved withdrawal and apology to Mr Kent, the referee. Under these circumstances they cannot acapt same. The finding o£ Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., id'Comm .inner appointed to..nou.ro mto the fatal tramway accident at rientneoto SrtaohnSr) on W ISO., f t*..l Sat too tram and trailers were loaded with pjs~ gangers beyond the limit of safety, and that the practice of overcrowding is common and is connived at by the Tramway Board for financial reasons. The .derailment of tho car was tho joint result ol defective track conditions, tho presence of a stone in tho points, and excessive, speed. Press Association.

Tho Samoan Constabulary, which is to replace tho Now Zealand garrison at present in Samoa, left Wellington for Auckland by to-day’s Main Trunk express, ea route to Samoa. It comprises 35 mounted and foot police, mostly returned soldiers, who have been specially selected for character, education and physique,. Ihe officers are Major J. C. Hill, Captain G Fnctor and Captain W. Watson, M,C„ all-returned roldiors, who hold the titles of InspectorGeneral, Inspector 'and _ Sub-Inspector respectivolv. Chief-Detective Boddam, of Vv ellingtqn, is attached to tho force as a SubInspector. A story, purporting to bo quoted from a well-known Vienna newspaper, _ is to tho effect that among the superstitious peasantry of the Tyrol the belief ha* taken root that President Wilson is no other than thG Crown Prince Rudolf, son of the late Em* peror Francis Joseph. The Crywn Pnnoo, so the myth runs, was not killed in - tho famous tragedy of the Castle of Mierlmfj, back in 1889, but merely kidnapped by his enemies and a dummy was buried in ms stead. Later, we are told, he succeeded in escaping to America, where ho assumed tho name of Woodrow Wilson and rose eventually to the presidency. Tho pious mountaineers arc now praying fervently that he may return and redeem his beloved and faithful Tyrolese from their present predicament.