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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10060, 3 May 1915, Page 4

The Defence Rifle Club (mounted) formed in connection with the Manawatu Club has decided that all members of the Palmerston section of B Squadron shall become Iron, members of the Rifle Club, the object beui": to obtain greater efficiency in marksmanship. On Saturday last, at Palmer and Oo.'s mart, a lamb reared by the Misses Mayo little daughters of Mr F. W. Mayo, wa? sold and resold, the proceeds totalling £26 Is 9d. A cheque for amount has been or id bv Messrs H. Palmer and Co. to the "Standard" Belgian Relief Fund without any deduction for commission.

THE LACK W NEW New Zealand has never passed through such a period of suspwpe and anxiety ae it has done during the last tew days. Just sufficient' news has been received from the seat of war where the New Zealanders are operating to arouse the deepest uneasiness in regard to the casualties that they may have sustained. It is krtown that in the fighting in which they were engaged the New Zealanders and Australians proved themselves to he possessed of the finest soldierly qualities and bore themselves with a gallantry that has earned the grateful recognition of their sovereign and the highest encomiums from the military authorities. They have been assigned an important place in the Allies' general scheme of campaign, and their success will have an appreciable effect in hastening the end of this cruel and disas- W trous war. Under such circumstances we are sure New Zealand will hear the full extent of the losses amongst her forces bravely and uncomplainingly. Already the names of those who have offered their lives on the altar of duty are beginning to filter through, and fuller details are expected at any time. The public may be quite sure that the news for which they are so patiently waiting will be given to them at the first opportunity, and that their anxiety will be relieved as speedily as military exigencies permit.

Rev. D. C. Bates wired at 9 a.m. to-day: Winds freshening i<y westerly, with increasing haze and cloudiness; barometer falling. A mooting of tho general committee of the Palmerston Bowling Club was held on Saturday, when it was decided to close the green for the season after play on Wednesday afternoon next.

The following are the latest additions to the telephone exchange:—No. 888 D, Mrs E. A. Howie, Nowburv; No. 888 K. Mr H. Morris, Newbury; No. 257, Mr W. 11. Jaeombs, 47 Church street East. The most serious earthquake for seven years has been seismographieally recorded in England, and it probably occurred in Japan. One needle recording station at West Bromwieh was dismantled.—Cabled item.

The Melrose Football Club, of Wellington, has disbanded owing to the inabilitv to put a senior team into the field this year. The- number of players who hav» gone on active service is the reason given. The club was established 30 years <igo. It is evident that the Mounted Rifles section of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force did not take part in the operations at the Dardanelles, as a resident of Palmerston North received a cablegram this morning from his son, who is a trooper with the Forces, stating that he is quite well and still at Cairo.

Our Fitzhcrbert correspondent writes: An unfortunate accident happened to Walter Scott, second son of Mr R. R. Scott, on Saturday afternoon. While negotiating a wire fence his horse fell and threw Ha rider, who was picked up in an unconscious condition. Medical aid was immediately summoned and the sufferer to tho Palmerston Hospital, where he is now pro gressing a s well as can be expected. Tho Manav/atu Hunt's hounds were being given a run at the time the accident occurred.

A store and six-roomed house at Longburn, occupied by Messrs Birch Bros., bakers, and owned by Mr G. A. Tapper, of Tuakau, Waikato, was totally destroyed by hre on Saturday evening. The origin of the fire is unknown. The outbreak was discovered at midnight, and despite the efforts of a strong bucket brigade nothing was saved. The flames were prevented from spreading to an adjoining shop, however. the insurances were £3OO in the Phoenix on the building, a nd £IOO in the same office on the contents of the shop. The Commissioners appointed by the Government to advise as to the allocation ol the 31 totahsator permits to be granted under the Gaming Amendment Act of last session, have presented their report to the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. H f• .r by wllom i 4 will be forwarded to the Governor. Altogether 77 applications were before the Commissioners (Mr G. Hunter, M.P., and Mr T. H. Davey) and they investigated all of them except one from Chatham Islands. This place was rather too remote. In all there are to be granted 15 permits to racing clubs 8 to trotting clubs, and 8 to hunt clubs To' make their enquiries the Commission had to make many long journeys. They covered some 10,000 miles on their tour, and their average rate of travel was 134 miles per day.

~ At St. Paul s Methodist Church last evenly?! a c f erv , 10e was held in connection with Bible Sunday. There was a large congregation and the Rev. F. W. Boys occupied the pu pit. Preaching from the text I. Peter 1 and 25, "The word of the Lord eiidureth for ever " the rev. gentleman spoke impressively of the power of the Bible and referred to the great works of the British and Foreign Bible Society in diV tributing he Scriptures. During the set vice the litany for the a rmy and nan was sung, and special reference wae made bv the preacher to the anxiety New Zealand »as passing through in regard to £ E " petitionary Force. The choir sang the Tn I hom ' Ye Miss S\r Dd Tre^urt ha taking the duet Hand ' S ' S H ° dgCS Sang the «*» "Into ThJ

''You are the man of mystery. The police want you." These words wer« looking a Well " dreSSed and SSctaK and I L° Ung W"' ed between 2^ farLr wSo a i/:H ddle ' aged and Crushed iarmer who had come into Christchurclon business one morning l ast week H« noticed that the woman ha I bin obsen ing him very closely, but when \he Id an e d S lei 2 ed m hi m n H th l terrif * in * ™™ ana seized him by the arm, he thouffht the tune for action had come He I o away, and went into a bank but the wo man waited outside. When he appealed again, she at once addressed him^nShe same words, seized him with a desperate grip and demanded that he should gTwith her to the police station. The K ava r at and ex P° stul^ion S were 7nJ a\ail Ihe woman was positive that he was the man of mystery whom the police waned and she declined to release him Ell l d * to »s et aWay by use of a little orce, but his captor stuck to him ad ve gave up finally. The farmer came the conclusion that the best thing to do was to go to the police station with the woman, and there obtain release from his embarrassing escort. They walked off together, she With a tight grip on her "man of mystery." The officers listened to her ale with amazement, and it did not, take them ong to realise that the farmer, who protested that he had never set eves on the woman before, was innocent of anv oftence The result was that the farmer was liberated, and the young woman detamed for medical examination as to her mental state.

"Patriotism knows neilher latitude nor longitude," said someone It mounts on a thousand Hag poles and now it has down to ladies' hose, for the flags of tM Allies (charmingly embroidered in colours) on the fronts of black cashmere hose are a pretty patriotic noveltv at 2s 8d ner pair; procurable trom Collinson and C'Enmnghamk—Advt.

New books at Parks: "The Keeper of ftl xT' ,'y Ethel M. Dell; '"Delia Blanchflower," by Mrs H. Ward; "The I( Nesblts Compact," by Pau l Trent Gods Country and the Woman," by lames 0. Curwood, etc.—Advt.

Woods Great Peopermint Cure, Is 6d 2s id.—Advl The Customs Tariff to next of kin to Chinese puzzle to many importers, so the* -end their invoices to Messrs J. j. Curtis md Co., Customhouse agents. Wellington, who have mastered every detail of Custom* vork. Follow their example. Nature never nteuded you to oompete with Job in the Patience Department—Advt

A shearer who had come down to Sydney irom the country in order to enlist was "turned down" by the doctor because he wa» flat-footed, the medical inspector stating that a man with flat feet could not carry a pack of 35 lbs. for a distance of 15 miles. The shearer replied to this by stating that he had very often carried a 601b 6wa<r. 40 and 50 miles a day in following his occupation.

At the Cliristchurcli Cathedral on iSaturday the clergy ot the diocese assembled to make a presentation to Bishop Jtiliii9 on the occasion of the completion of bis twenty-fifth year as Bishop of Christcliureh. A very large and representative attendance of clergy attended, and the presentation took place in the choir of the cathedral, the Bishop occupying his throne. The gift, a light pastoral staff, was brought in iii state. —Press Association.

A lady nurse serving at the front writes to her friends on the Borders: "1 am on night duty and writing this at 3 a.m. My patients are nearly all asleep and fairly comfortable, but it is a funny experience, especially at night, as my hospital is six single bathing-boxes. I have one for myself with an oil stove in it. which makes it nice and comfortable. About fifty bathing boxes are occupied, and cciy 20 minutes or so I go out o er the sand heaps and do a round. The hospital is near Boulogne, and 1 have two orderlies."'

A man named William Gunn was arrested at Kaponga the other day on a charge of obtaining money by means ot a valueless cheque. Gunn, it is alleged, had been "doing"' tlie North Island, from Petone northwards, practising a series of forgeries on publicans and others in numerous towns. Accused is an elderly man of good appearance, and the police stated that he was in the habit of booking up at certain hotels in the various towns he visited, and producing a valueless order to meet his obligations. There are similar charges against the accused pending at Petone. Mangaweka, Palmerston North. Raurirau, Patea, and Hawera, and they will be heard at Hawera on Mondav. (

The method adopted for the disposal of the horses which were killed in the destruction of Craig's stables at Auckland has not been entirely effective owing to unfavourable weather conditions. Altogether 20£ carcases were recovered, and they wer<* taken in scows to a point about il miles beyond Tiritiri bland, and there thrown into the sea. This course was sanctioned by the district health officer, who considered that as the carcases had been partially destroyed by lire they would not rise to the surface of the water. The stranding of about 14 carcases on the north coast has be<m reported to the district health officer, however. Arrangements were made immediately for the disposal of the bodies by buriai, a party of workmen being despatched by launch.

Surely the greatest of ;II ci mpliments to "Tipperarv'' isays an English paper) was that paid the ether evening at Earl's Court, where a n; tuber of self-sacrificing artists give periodic concerts to the Belgian reiugees. Mr Edwin Evans, the promoter of the concerts, writes to me:--' Last (Monday) night at Earl's Court, the band concluded as usual with the anthems, commencing with the Belgian end concluding with our own. Tie audience remained, as if that vere in t enough. I asked them what they \v:i"ted. and discovered they Avere waiting fir ' Tipperarv!' Not in a -pirit of levity: far from it. They regard it as a kind of 'h-ternationar anthem o' the Allies. They listened to it si Tiding and. with no more than a dozen exceptions, uncovered. It was really r.ir'te striking, ami I gather from a rem. rk made by one of the Flemish interpreters that it is almost an object ci p etv -a k : i.d of symbolic 'song of nope. "

in the Arbitration Court at "Wellington during the hearing of the Cooks and Stewards' dispute Mr E. J. Carey, apfor the union, said that if their demands were granted the members would draw up a scheme to do away with tips." Mr Justice Stringer (laugh ing): "You will have to alter humar nature before you can do away with "tips." Later a ship's steward gave evi dence that people's tips were not so generous now as they used to be. A lot of "commercials," he said, who used to give 2s, now gave 6d. Another steward gave evidence that he estimated he got £6 a month in "tips" the year round on the Wahine, but the men were willing to do away with the "cadging" system if they could get a living wage. They had to seize a man's small bag simply to get a tip off him. It was later stated that as the fares were raJM-d the "tips" decreased, and the passengers stated to the stewards that they hail had to.pay so much extra for their fares that they could not afford the old "tips."

A commercial man representing a big English house states that owing to their inability to cope with the conditions imposed by the war, several English firms devoted to the manufacture ot t,oft goods were withdrawing from the New Zealand trade, temporarily at all events. All manufacturers of the heavie- cloths, tweeds, blankets, etc., were having large demands made on their nitptit in the Old Country, and owing' to the extraordinary high prices of wool, the difficulties of transport, higli freights, etc., they were finding the oversea trade difficult to supply on a reasonably payable basis, and so were for the time being dropping out. The range of samples of tweeds for next summer was limited, and owing to the inability of manufacturers to .secure aniline dies, for which England depended on Germany, the fashion for bright colours now prevailing was not likely to be maintained during the coming season. The many family bereave ments, too, in the Old Country, were likely to have an effect on the tasnions. and the neat, serviceable black ami white checks and mixtures and greys are likely to come into favour. On account of the difficulty in securing fibre, the price of linen has already advanced 50 per cent, and before the end of the year was likely to be even dearer.

The (". M. Ross Company, Ltd.. call attention to their stock of ladies* fur ;mrl Coney seal coats, and invito thr ins,ieeti<in of prospective buyers —Advt.

Some, new records now will make the winter evenings happier. Is lid is our very lowest price for 10 inch disc records, and there's a good assortment. 2s 3d is another popular price, and the artists whose efforts are reproduced rank high in public favour. Come in and hear a few! (ollinson and Son. Others up to 6s 6d.— Advt.

Now is the time for alarm clocks! Call and inspect car stock. Every article guaranteed twelve months. N. I). Stubbs. jeweller, th© Square.—Advt.

Rheumatic pains are caused by the pre ; senpe in the bkod of an excess of uric acid lactic acid, ami other foreign substances. This accumulation of arid poison must be neutralised and driven out before a cure can l>e effected. It i> useless taking a pill oi liniment that will merely deaden the painthe [voison n«'eds to be expelled. Rheunx is tli'* one sovereign remedy which will spieiblii. and effectively cure Rheumatism (J.nit. Sciatica, Lumbago, and other kindred ailments. b is the triumphant result of yeais of scientific experiment. It has cured thousands, and it will cure you. Put it to the tc-f. Give it a fair trial. All chemis's and stores sell it. 2s 6d and. 4s 6d a bottle.-Advt.

Owinp to the increased expense;*, combined with' the high wholesale price of meat, Sydney retail butchers are largely abandoning the delivery of meat (says a cable). .Mr Fred Wildbore, of Feilding, has taken a bomb to Wellington to be tested by the military authorities. He claims that the bomb has tremendous power when dropped from the air.