"VENIENDO RESTITUIT REM."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9582, 31 August 1909, Page 5

"VENIENDO RESTITUIT REM."

Family mottoes, perhaps more particularly when they are culled from' the quite dead and more than halffprgotten languages, don't appeal to the modern work-a-day world as "things that matter." Of course in the first instance some of .us whose Latinity is "shaky" and who cannot truthfully speak of him or herself as "Grecian," look side ways on such things and regard them I as "awfully silly, don't chu' know"; but in the Supreme Court on Saturday there was "apported" in a sense, a motto which is wondrously apt, says the "New Zealand Times." This is the story: Some tima ago a lady resident somewhere in the Wairarapa supposing that the allotted span of her existence was nearly stretched, posted to a relative in England a pared containing some of the family relics, heirlooms, mementoes or whatever you may choose to call them. These goods were sent by parcel post, and they duly arrived en route in Wellington, where, in the usual course the parcel was deposited in the Parcel Post Office. But Mr James Hem mingway, who is now serving a sentence for the "burgling" of Parcels Post, cast envious eyes upon this particular parcel and annexed it. The thing contained a silver tankard of ancient shape and fashion. Engraven upon the lid of the vessel there ia a griffin rampant, and the motto is "Veniendo Restituit Rem," which being (very freelv perhaps) interpreted re,ads: "By his coming he returned it." Well, Detective Andrews was sent across to Sydney in connection with the Parcels Post robberies, and amongst other things, including a prisoner or two, he brought back this tankard. "By his coming he returned it!"