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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12404, 23 August 1918, Page 6

A curious situation was revealed in tho case of a charge of having stolen a bicycle, which was hoard at the Magistrate's Court this morning before Mr S. E. M’Carthy, S.M It. appeared that tho complainant lent the bieveio 10 another man, who rode it to a hairdressers shop, outside which it was left standing for about ton minutes. W hen ho came out the bicycle was. gone and another was left in its place. "The. accused said that on the same day a man had had the loan of his bicvcle, hut had returned with somebody elsc’s. Accused told the man to communicate the fact to tho police and thought he had done so. yj the meanwhile ho kept tho bicycle, and when, some days later, ho loft for Gisborne,' ho sold "it to a. friend. Jhe man to whom accused had lent Ins bicycle said that ho had been used to riding a motor-cycle, not a push-bike, and that it was quite possible, when he came out of tho hairdresser’s shop which he had visited on his way home, he unwittingly took the wrong bicycle. However, ho did not notice Ills mistake until ho was leaving his own home after dinner. Under the circumstances the Magistrate decided to dismiss the charge.

A concert organised by Miss B. Macdonald, and under the auspices of tho Papanui executive appointed to secure funds for obtaining Christmas parcels for tho Papanui soldiers at the front, was held in St Paul's schoolroom on Thursday night. There was a moderate attendance, but tho concert was a complete success. Tho various songs contributed by tho performers and by Miss Macdonald’s pupils were thoroughly appreciated. Those who kindly gave their services were. Mrs Audibert, Misses Thompson, Haze! and Bona Faville, and Messrs It. Cummings and B. Malcolm, whilst Mr J. Scarf was excellent as a ventriloquist. Miss Macdonald was the accompanist. Mr J. Gray, of 220, Moorhouse Avenue, has received advice that his son. Staff Sergeangt G. F, Gray, who is on the Headquarters Staff of the 22nd Army Corps, “somewhere in France,'’ has been awarded the Military Medal. Sergeant Gray joined, the Sixth Reinforcements and left New Zealand with the Eighth Reinforcements. He has two brothers with the forces, namely. Lieutenant E. P. Gray, who returned to New Zealand on duty Inst March, and is now at Foatherston, expecting to again leave for the front, and Private E. L. Gray, who is with the New Zealanders in Franco. The original cause of “Tho Ancient Mariner ” was the need of a £5 note to enable Coleridge, -"Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth to prolong their holiday walking tour.--Mr E. Hartley Coleridge.