LATE MAIL NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1920, Page 1

LATE MAIL NEWS.

ONE MORAL CODE IN U.S. NEW YORK, Feb. 26. A decision handed down in the New York Court of General Sessions.and declaring that the police, in making arrests, must no longer recognise a double j standard of morals, is causing much comment in the Press. The case is one in which a woman wascharged with maintaining a disorderly house. Judge William H. Wad-hams'dis-charged the woman on the ground that the detectives who effected her arrest allowed the man who was visiting her to go free. THE VINDICTIVE. BRUSSELS, Feb. 26. The Os tend correspondent of the Etoile Beige, reporting on the Admiralty’s decision to salve the wreck of the ! Vindictive, explains that the hull will h he raised in fine weather, and probably beached for further repairs. Six steel beams have been riveted across the rent which, if it increased, would split the ship in two. The other British wrecks, adds the Etoile Beige correspondent, liavc been i looted of more than two tons of copper I and bronze. 1 i STRAWBERRIES 6s EACH. BRUSSELS, Feb. 26. The luxurious lives led by the “new rich” gall the hearts of the “new poor” | in Belgium. Yesterday, although coal is scarce, forced strawberries were sold by auction in the fruit market. Nine berries fetched £2 15s. They buyer was a Dutchman, and the market-women believe that the strawberries' wore for the ex-Kaiser’s table.