GREAT MASTERS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10023, 20 April 1910, Page 5

GREAT MASTERS.

A FRENCH SENSATION. ALLEGED FORGERIKS. United Press Association—By iuiectrio Telegrap Copyright. Received April 19, 10 a.m. PAK.IS, April 18.

The Count and Countess Aulby Deglatingy, well-known French aristocrats, have been arrested at lours. It is alleged that they sold forged paintings to Mrs Paine, an American lady living in Paris. The portraits included pictures described as works of Murilln, Correggio, Titian, and Corot, the four costing £40,000 sterling.

Mis Paine had entrusted the Count with the tank of making a large collection. Experts declare the pictures all forgeries. MISSING WA&ATAH. FURTHER REMARKABLE EVIDENCE. VESSEL COULD NOT RIDE A SEA. BADLY RIUGRD AND UNSTEADY.

•Received April 19, 10.17 a.m. MELBOURNE. April 19.

An ex-scarnan of the Waratah, in hJs ■evidence, stated tLat the vessel <'onM not ride seas at all, but bumped !v-r riofe rightdnwn into the trough of foe water. Seas broke right over the n)iip, and the engines shook the vessel a great deal, and, as a result, some of the gear of the mizzav.maA necame loosened. He assisted to repair it, but in 24 hours it was loose again. He heard the chief officer say to a passenger, "I will be glad when this vessel reaches London again, because I don't think she will be able to stand a heavy storm." The Waratah was the worst rigeed ship, in respect to ship' 3 apparel, he had ever sailed in. and the most unsteady boat he had ever been in. Latimer, a shipping clerk in Sydney, stated that the second officer had told him- in January of last year that he didn't like tha vessel at all, and thought she had a deck too many. He said he had got a scare when enminc round in the vessel from the builder's yard tn London. He thought she was going over on her broadside in the heavy weather . in the Channel.

Mr Richardson. Chief Mechanical Engineer to the Geclong Harbour Trust, who was a passenger to Durban on the ill-fated voyage, said he had commented to/lie captain of the vessel's slow recovery when pitching Captain Ilbery had replied that she was a little that way, but that it must be remembered that there were thousands -of tons of dead weight to shift. When the got in motion it took a power to stop it, and when stepped it took a considerable force to start it in the opposite direction.