GREAT SCULPTURE FIND ROME July 1.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1923, Page 1

GREAT SCULPTURE FIND ROME July 1.

\ .>re-;i arch-ieohybcal di-eo\et\ has c, in Borne during the digging i-.,-,|t.,)jifi:>ns for a house on ihe bank tly River Tiber. It is a wmider- ‘ v* cot airetl alabaster stat ue of a se'd.,l Minerva, over lifo-siae. Vnfortnxiatelv. the head is missing. The statue is Hellenic in style, recall in * r by the draping of tbe clothes t'::e best Creek period. Hopes are entertained that the head ill he found, as fragments of the hair have been recovered. The municipal archaeologist states that the- value of the discovery is immense. not: only artistically hut also because a statue of such wonderful alabaster has never yet been known.

VF.W YORK ' POISON" LETTERS NEW YORK, duly 1.

Afr George Maxwell, president of the Authors’, Publishers', and Composers' Association of America, who was indieted six weeks ago on charges of sending "poison pen” letters to prominent people in New York, arrived here to-day from London by way of Quebec. He .surrendered to the police and was allowed hail of £'l,ooo.

Tn a published statement he says lie has returned voluntarily "to unearth and bring to justice'the .guilty parties who have tortured me and my friends for six years with these scurrilous epistles.”