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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1861, 10 July 1920, Page 4

A London cablegram states that the latest quotation for silver is 54d per ounce. A Sydney cable states that the master of tho'Tarawera was fined £5 for foiling to keep efficient rat-guard discs between the vessel and the wharf. The Rotorua School Committee has agreed to allow religious instruction in the ;«chool by outside instructors, a referendum of parents showing 145 in favour of the proposal and eight against. An Australian soldier accompanies Lady and General Sir William Birdwood on t rumtrip .in the capacity of orderly. The "Aussie" was the General's batman in France, and was retained by him after the war in view of the Australasian tour. During the voyage of the barquentine .Ysa.be! from San Francisco to New Ply.■youth, which occupied 77 days, a Russian seaUnan was lost overboard. The Ysabel, which arrived at New Plymouth yesterday is'Jhc second sailer to bring a supply of benziiW from San Francisco this week. For some ' t-iina past, according to a local paper there ha? bceii it deficiency in the water' pressure oil J"0 "/iter front al Timaru. The engineer made a thorough investigation and evcutua.'.v. after working long hours into the night, discovered a valve which had been turned oil lor eight years and which was unknown _ when the engineer took up his duties at lunaru. On turning on the valve the prctswirc was doubled

There is a likelihood that the suggestion mado by tlio Auckland provincial executive of Ihn' Farmers' Union that heavy owe carcases hold in cold storage .should be boiled down in the Dominion to provide space for new season's meat will be adopted (says the Auckland Herald). A letter has been received from the, Prime Minister b\ the provincial secretary of the union, stal inff that if proper arrangements could lie made it was quite possiblo that the suggestion would be adopted, though perhaps not to the full extent proposed by the executive. Air Massev added that a definite decision could not be made till more inquiries regarding the maUor had been made. A cable to the Sydney Sun describing scenes at the Democrat ie Convention at San Francisco last week said:— Vfomen wero conspicuously prominent in tho crazy demonstrations at tho convention. For ex ample, they cheered for 35_ minutes when Mr Palmer placed ins ncmination. Scores of women mounted on men's shoulder? wore carried round the auditorium, the men prancing in time to the music, and varying their style to decisional waltz steps. "'J.ols of "noise! Lots of noise!" yelled the leaders through megaphones when the Iciowd showed signs of fatigue. The police wero finally called in, and cleared tin aish s. Tho five Hindus who had io leave the Evans Pass road construction works, owing 1.) the objection of the white labourers to working with coloured men, are still in the Lyttelron vicinity (says a Christchiireh exchange). The Public Works District Engineer, Mr J. McEnnis, re-iterates that the Hindus were not brought south by the l)r>partment, but came on their own initiative. Mr McEnnis has written to Wellington on the subject but has not >•<•* received a reply. If (ho Hindus fail to obtain private employment, the Department will probably endeavour to place them in some isolated spot on load construction, where, i>cin(r out of sight, they may be out of the' minds of white workers. At present, it is not believed that the Hindus are in waul.

The Central Soviet of the Volga. Commune reported in April that a decree had been issued punishing extravagance and display by women with 10 years' servitude in a Red labour army, the culprits to wear for the first six months garments of sacking and shoes of birchbark. The Soviet arrested on this charge the wives of Commissaries PlatonofT and Miezdcn, and compelled the whole city of Kazan to witness their degradation. The two women were undressed of their finery on a red-painted platform in a Volga barge, forced to put on the new penal garb, and then driven with whips Id their new work on a harbour mole. In Platonoff's house were discovered vast hordes of money, precious stones, silks, and old pictures. A parade of the L.0.1/, is called for tomorrow at the Baptist Church. Rev. C. W. Duncumb will conduct the service. Attention is drawn to an advertisement inserted by Landers Bros., Rongotea (whose Jease will expire shortly). Intending purchasers of drapery, boots, ironmongery, crockery, etc., would be well advised to call early. Knitting wools in all the wanted shades just to hand—emerald, saxe, rose, purple, grey, fawns, helio, white. The C. M. Ros? Co. announce that they have just received a big shipment of wool suitable for ladies' jumpers, sweater coats, etc., and invite you to make selections from this splendid range.—Advt. "There's no place like home," when one can do the washng in half the time with "No Rubbing Laundry Help," and have plenty of time left for enjoyable leisure.— Advt. Wo havo received a shipment of No. 8 English galvanised fencing wire. Tin's is put rip in cwt. coils, the handy fencing size. Another short line, joiners' cramps in all sizes, we can now supply. Write or call for prices.— Cullinson and Son, 11 Broadway, and King street, Palmerston JNorth,—Advt.

The rain that has fallen without intermission (luring: the day, and the consequent sodden nature of the grounds, have necessitated an abandonment of the hookey futures for to-day. * The Mayor of Wellington (Mr J. V. Luke) does not favour the proposal to have. in Wellington a local memorial to fallen soldiers as well as the national memorial which it is proposed to> erect in the city. At Hastings on Wednesday, George Findlay, of ih'o Hastings Bakery, Ltd., was lined £2O and cost,* on a charge of selling Ujlder-vvcight bread. On a second charge he was convicted and ordered to come jj> for sentence when called upon. The eight Hindus who slept . in tho Masterton public park on Wednesday night, after having left; L'aiterton, consequent on a demonstration against them, left by train in the morning for the north. Under the heading of "A Long Kick," ;i Sydney paper records (hat during a football match at. Brighton (Melbourne) recently the ball was kicked into a passing electric train and was carried away. The local branch of tho Returned Soldiers' Association has decided to present ;l set of colours to All Saints' Church, to be hung over the memorial tablet whiWi will 1 c unveiled there at i n early date. A motion was carried in the House of Lords in favour of the appointment of special commissioners, crn]x>\vered to wind up special war service departments and n duce oilier inflated establishments to normal level. "What class of road would you suggest?" a witness was asked at the sitting of the Reading Commission at Hamilton icccntly. "I am out of touch with modern roads, and would leave that lo the. engineers, as I have been living in the mud for fifteen years," replied tho witness amid laughter. What is claimed to be a new Australian ladies' high jump was established at the Maitland (New South Wales) Hospital sports last month by Miss Bessie Grandemange, of Sydney. Miss Grandemango started with the bar at 3 feet 4 inches, r.nd eventually cleat ed 4 feet IJ. inches. She got over at the first attempt, but did not try any higher. The local branch of tho Returned Soldiers'.Association has decided to institute a gymnasium at the Club. The various apparatus v, ill lx) installed in the social hall, and will lie used only by returned soldiers and visiting hockey and football teams. Tho library has now been completed «ind will be opened by tho Mayor at an early date.

Preparations arc now practically complete for the introduction of toothbrush drill ;.t St. John's Infants' School, Wanganui. The. pupils have, been asked to provide their own brushes and a .small glass jar. The necessary cleaning .material, such as pa&to or powder, will be issued at the school at a moderate charge. Each child will be expeeled to look after his or her equipment. The Rev. J]." G. Blackburno announced to the Diocesan .Synod at. Wellington last night that lie l.ad received the promise of a donation of £SO to the C.E.11.5. Hostel for newly-arrived immigrants, provided that forty-nine similar donations were received. He was pretty sure he could get two or threa in Palmerston Xcrth, and ho would like members to know this, as it was really i New Zealand matter, not a. district one. With regard to the proposed soldiers' memorial, the executive of the local Returned Soldiers' Association discussed the matter at their last meeting, and resolved that, should the memorial committee decide to erect a cenotaph or monument the Association's members would help to collect, funds to go towards the cost. They, however, did not approve or" the suggestion of erecting a public building as a form of memorial.

A representative of the "Standard - ' waited upon the member for Palmerston North, Mr J. A. Nash, this morning for an expression of opinion regarding the situation that has iuis"ii in connection with tho removal of the Pahnorston .North railway station to Boundary road, owing to the igitalion for a railway deviation from Levin to Great ford. Mr Nash stated that i» was not prepared if' go into details, other than to say that he was quite satisfied with affairs as they stand at present, and (hat he was giving every attention to matters in connection with the .Palmerston North scheme. The Timaru Post vouches for the following p incident, which it says' "occurred in a, Police Court not a thousand miles from Timaru'': —The Court room was fdled with the cla-ss usually found in such situations, and who appear to derive peculiar pleasure from listening to details of tho downfall and weakness of his fellow men and women. The prisoner—a householder —was adjudged guilty of the offence for which ho was charged, the Magistrate had pronounced a term of six months in "durance vile," and the candidate lor the "Crown uniform" was being removed from the Court, when a policeman tapped him on the shoulder, and said, " Excuse me, sir, but do you want to lot your house'.' I will take it for six months."

At a meeting of the Colhge Street School Committee last night ?vlrs Gill observed thai; the fact that the Education Department had thought fit to introduce toothbrush drill into the schools indicated a deplorable state of affairs. It was a, regrettable thing that some children should hava to have their teeth cleaned at school. "It is the best thing that has been done since the medical inspection scheme was introduced," replied Mr Ruttiitrfurd, and added that though it was a matter for regret that, it had to be instituted, the scheme was necessary. If children did not have their teeth cleaned at home then they had to bo trained at school to do it in the same manner as they were trained to rend and write. The Committee decided to communicate with the Wanganui Education Board immediately iii oiijer to have the arrangements ompleted for eoinmendny the drill.

Dining the Great War ]st King Edward's Horse put out from its ranks no less than 550 young colonials to the commissioned ranks of tho British Armies in the field. An historical record of the Regiment is now being prepared and the Commanding Officer would like to have included a record of the militarj achievements of those officers who were commissioned from its ranks. It is re. quested that relatives of those who fell should send particulars of the date and circumstance of their death, and that lato members of the Regiment should .send a short record of their own services in the war to the Adjutant, King Edward's Horse, Duke of York's Headquarters, Chelsea, London. A memorial to those of the Regiment who were killed or died in Franco during the war is being erected at Vieille Ghapelle on the line where the Regiment held up a Boehe Division from sunup to sundown during the great attack in 1918.

A most original and artistic souvenir of ( the Great War has been conceived in the . form of a bronze model of the cenotaph which was erected in Whitehall, London, as a memorial to the fallen, and past which marched, in homage to the dead, the brave and splendid troops of the Allies. The model is a replica, its height bein"- 7.' inches, including a wooden stand made from the actual wood of the original cenotaph, which adds a considerable historio and sentimental value to the model. These models, including the original cenotaph wood stands, are being sold for six guineas on behalf of St. Dunstan's After-Care Fund For blinded soldiers and sailors, and full particulars can be obtained from the organising secretary, St. Dunstan's After-Care Fund, 306 Regent street, London, \V I England. The local U.S.A. have proved themselves organisers of no mean order and then- new venture on Monday evening, which takes tho form of a concert promises to provide the "diggers" and their friends with a splendid entertainment. I he musical numbers include items by the best local talent. The chief function of this store is to meet the needs and demands of a steadily increasing clientele, so again we offer big bargains. This time it concerns dress materials New, fashionable, seasonable fabtics liberally reduced and displayed in window 4; so come and see what remarkable values they represent—Collinson and Cunnmghame, Ltd.—Advt. For children's hacking cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 9d, 2s 9d.— Advt. We have a wonderful clock at our place. It has quite an original tick. At first wa did not realiso what it was saying. Now, we know. It ticks "Ex-ox, Ex-ox, Ex-ox, Ex-ox." Of eourso yon understand that Ex-ox is the essence of the finest beef, and that a teaspoonful, with hot water, rnakeu delicious beef tea, tich, nourishing, appetising. But fancy tho clock knowing.—Advt,