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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12754, 25 September 1919, Page 8

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In the recent Supreme Court action in which Stanley Williams (Mr Alpers and Mr Donnelly) was awarded £628 10s compensation * against Elizabeth Rutherford, as the result of a motor accident, notice was given by Mr TV. 0. Macsjregor. K.C., to move for a newtrial. This has since been abandoned. ' A Press Association message from Feilding states that the Presbyterians of that town 'did not accept the proposal for union with the Methodists and Congregationalists. Tne voting waa as follows: —For union, 39 members and 23 adherents; against union, 58 members and 34 adherents. Mr W. T. Lill, speaking at the Farmers' Union, complained that although there was an experimental farm at Ashburton on a high school * reserve, no results were given out, and the Department seemed to he prepared to do nothing in a practical way. On the farm thero wa!s not a cow milked or a sheep classified. Experimental work in Canterbury was a pure waste. The nine or ten farms in the North Island were useless to Canterbury farmers' and the province had a good deal to complain of. . The popular composer, Mr Herman Finck, tells an amusing story of the famous Russian dancer, Mdlle. Pavlova. Pavlova stood out among all the other ladies. of the ballet when dancing at the Palace, and in order to avoid hurting their feelings or promoting jealousy she made it a rule that her bouquets should be sent to the stage door and not handed to her publicly across the footlights. On the last night, Herman Finck, who waa conducting, suddenly saw a boy approaching with a large Laurel wreath. He waved the boy awaj but the hoy refused to retreat and passed along the orchestra. The solution came when the boy cried out, "It is for you, sir I"