Excellent Afternoon at Carlton:
Mr. Pratt on League Work:
Over $10,800 Taken Remembering the previous suecessful Bazaar of the Ministering Chil-en's League it was hard to belove that Saturday's Fair could imrove upon its predecessors but it succeeded triumphantly in breaking its own records. "The Carlton Cafe was completely given up to its varied attractions and was crowded with children, their parents and friends. At 230 the curtain of the ballroom stage was drawn tuck, showing representatives of the Girl' Guides of the Public, Catheral and American Schools drawn uy and in the centre Mr. and Mrs, J... Pratt, Mrs. Clear, the Presi-Gent of the League, Mrs. Heaton-Smith, the hon, secretary, and Mrs. Trenchard Davis, the hon, trea: turer. Mrs, Clear, in an appropriate speech welcomed those pre sunt and spoke of the increase in membership of the League from, 600 last year to 00 at present, so that practically all the schools in town were now represented. She icho rushed to the spot, only 10 be shot at twice and missed by one of the three remaining robbers. A third man was chased by P. C. Kersley, who followed his man into an alleyway. The latter managed to climb up on to the. roof of a small Chinese house. He then turned round and fired a shot at the with a Russian crown of blue and silver for a -head-dress, Silver shoes and stockings completed the costume. The bouquet was pal [pink roses. The bride's mother wor deep champagne coloured crepe de chine with lace jabot and a nigger brown crepe scarf lined with satin land trimmed with marabout, with foreign constable, tured the fire." re-la hat of nigger brown. She carried Neither of a bouquet of variczated sweet peas, the shots took effect and the robber jumped from the roof on to a plot of grass below and managed to make good his escape, Apart from the man taken into custody by the Chinese constable, none of the men was apprehended, 'A remand for two weeks was. ordered.
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