NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2518, 14 December 1922, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

"Tell ii> Llit* modus operandi." iu.'l rinded Mr -Justice Stringer of u witness in llie Supreme ('our! ill Auckland. The witness stared blankly and '.aid "I’m," in a puzzled lime. "Toll us how il is done —all about it," supplemented His Honour. The cloud of uncertainly vanished from the witness’s face. "Oh, J see," he said, and in good old Anglo-Saxon proceeded to tell his story. There are not many men living now who can say that they have lived during the reign of live Sovereigns in Kngland. This is one of the facts in which Mr Robert Rowe, the Wairarapa centenarian, who died on Monday last, used to take pride. The late Mr Rowe was a loyalist, to the backbone, and was keenly disappointed th.il he did not meet the Prince of Wales during his tour in l!i‘2o. Interviewed some weeks ago the centenarian expressed regret that through some official bungling he was unable to meet the Prince when he visited Master)on. He was visited later, however, by Viscount stud Lady -Jellicoe. "1 feel very highly honoured indeed, 1 can assure you,’’ he said, “but much more so when Lady Jellicoe told me she intended writing Home to the Prince fox a souvenir for me. 1 suppose it will come to hand one of these days.”