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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1715, 5 January 1920, Page 4

A cablegram from London states that hemp is firm, “ high-ppint fail-,” January to March shipments being quoted at. £53. 1 The Dannovirko News, understands that a well-known local resident has acquired a property of 36,000 acres in tho Wairoa district.

A New York cable states that a message f>-om itattle Creek. Michigan, says that Sir Horace Plunkett has arrived to rest for a few days at the local sanitarium. Ho appears to bo in good health. . The annual conference of the delegates of the Railway Officers’ Institute opens at Dunedin on the 12th inst. Palmerston North and district will be represented by Mr A. Wylie, local branch secretary.

The annual conference of the delegates from Bible.classes in connection with tiie Presbyterian Church throughout New Zealand was held hist week at Timaru. There was an attendance of nearly 900, chiefly young people and ministers of the church.

A movement is on font to provide a library for the Grcymmitli Soldiers’ Club by a novel method It. is proposed to hold a social function at an early date and in lieu of the customary charge admission will be gained by the contribution of a book.

An audacious Sinn Fein exploit recently occurred at Mullingar, County Westmeath. Tilt* printing ofiice of the Midland Reporter was entered at night through a fanlight, and a Dai) Eirann loan 'prospectus was printed by the raiders on one of the machines.

The customary, quietness of Little River was rudely disturbed recently (writes the Lyttelton Ti.me§ correspondent) by the spectacle) of a, Maori who. whilst under the influence of liquoF, assaulted his-wife, made a bonfire and buihit the wearing apparel of his wife and family and a quantity of household furniture. The local constable, arriving or. the scene, overpowered the Maori, and removed him to the lock-up. As a sequel, the accused was sentenced to three ,months’ imprisonment. - In connection with the development of -the Charleston coalfield, the Grcymouth correspondent, of the Christchurch Sun states that the directors of the Westport Coal Company have their arrangements well in hand for starting the railway from Capo Foulwind to the mines. The gradient will he easy, so that large rakes of coal will be hauled by a small engine, and it is anticipated that, when the supply is available, it will materially lower the price of lignite in the cities. In connection with the fatalities at Sumner beach, Dr. H. T. ’J. Thacker, M.P., Mayor of Chrichurch, has sent the following telegram to the Prime Minister: “Our citizens are flocking to the seaside. Bathing fatalities have already occurred, and there have been some very narrow escapes. Our life-saving is entirely voluntary. Can you assist in paying official patrols, supervised and selected by the Royal Life-saving Society? The Harbour Board has given reels and lines froa of cost.”

At the- Presbyterian Bible class annual conference at Timarn last week an important statement was made by Professor llewitson, of Knox College, Dunedin, on the effect of the adverse exchange rates when remitting salaries to New Zealand church missionaries in- India and China, especially the latter. The present rates required 70 [tor cent, more for India and for China 150 pair cent, more, the value of the sovereign having dropped from 15_ to 9 rupees in the former, and from 10 Chinese dollars to 4 in the latter. To maintain the present salaries £7OOO per year more was needed and an effort should be made to raise an emergency fund of £IO,OOO. The Professor urged the delegates to the conference'io make the situation known when they returned home.

The Defence Minister has presented Waverley with one of the German guns captured by Major Farr, D.5.0., during the late war, and the gun, which is a 77in.m. field gun, is now awaiting its new resting place. The story of the capture of the gun is a thrilling cine, and is as follows:--On 15th September. 1916, during tin* battle ot the Somme, when the New Zealand Division was thrown into the battle, and captured the outskirts df Delvillo Wood, Flers, etc., a battery of 6.77 m.m. German guns were captured, these being the first guns captured by the New Zealanders in France. The whole of these guns had been disabled by the artillery. The personnel of the 13th Battery. N.Z.F.A.. under Major T. Farr, D.5.0., MX'., overhauled them, and out of the six made two serviceable guns. Major fiiow Captain) Farr is well-known in Palmerston North.

"Lord Allenby,” General llyrie said in concluding n lecture on Gallipoli and Gaza at Sydney last week, “has. been criticised for having ignored the work of the Australians in Egypt in speeches by him. Ido not know whether it was intentional, but he had some cause for being incensed against the Australians. An incident in which some Australians were the principal actors, would have incensed any Commander-in-Chicf. A man was supposed to have been shot by the Bedouins, whereupon Australians surrounded a village of the Bedouins at night, and killed some of them. Incensed at this. Lord Allenby used some hard words. But he said to me afterwards that he had wiped it all off the slate. Therefore, anything done by Lord Allenby after that was an oversight, lie is. one of the best men who ever lived.”

The lure of the sea or swimming bath is greatly enhanced with a Rosco swimming outfit. Gome on the waters fine, say enthusiasts. Ladies’ swimming costumes, 8s lid to 18s 6cl; caps, 2s 3d to 6s lid.—The 0. M. Ross Co., Ltd.—Advt.

(.roquet is the ideal game for young and old; for the enjoyment of this game wo have landed some good English croquet sets, complete with all mallets, hoops, balls, etc.; best quality and finish; prices, £5 19s 6cl to £8 10s per set.—Collinson and Son, 11 Broadway and King street, Palmerston North —Advt. Tested in thousands of kitchens, Sharland’s baking powder has never failed to ns«. Costs less than others—worth more.— Advt.

Sharland’s malt vinegar makes delightful salads. Brewed from malt and sugar. Free from mineral acids. Conforms to requirements of Food and Drugs Act. All grocers. —Advt.

/• V - ■ ' '■' ' * It seems somewhat odd to’find that li a land that is noted for jts tfoiipnng that New Zealand’s import‘h\of milk and crcaiif (preserved) for nine months of last year, came to a total value of £19,320 (says tho Foilding Stui 1 ). . , I Tho Australasian Christian Students Conference opened at Geraldine on Friday. About 100 delegates were welcomed bw-tho Mayor (Mr B. R. Mac Donald), file Rev. John Mackenzie, formerly of St. Andrew s, Christchurch, now of Toorak,, Melbourne, and an old Geraldine boy, presided over ttio conference.

A number of returned soldiers from the troopship Rimutaka arrived in Palmerston North to-day from Wellington. .Four camo by the New Plymouth express and were mot at the station bv the Mayor (Mr-J. A. Nash, M.P.) and .Mr A. J, Graham* and conveyed in motor cars to their homes. It was expected that the remainder would arrive by other trains during the afternoon. The Palmerston North men are: D. T. Dilks, K. H. Kersel, S. Scott, H. J. Waller, J. E. Barnard, K. S. Croucher. J. S; Lumsden, N. S. McPherson, R. J. Moatyard and P. T Smyth.

Last June a young Auckland fanner who had just got married furnished his house at a cost of £60., and recently he sold his farm, and sold his furniture- at what ho gave for it to tho new purchaser. Ho took up another place, and thought all he had to do was to repeat his order for furniture and get it at the same price. Imagine his .surprise when he was told that tho furniture was now worth £9O, or 50 per cent, nioro, and that it couldn't be supplied for less; also that there was a likelihood of a further rise at the beginning of the year, as a rise had taken place in the best timbers suitable for furniture making.