LONDON WOOL SALE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 252, 18 July 1919, Page 5

LONDON WOOL SALE

(Rec. July 17, p.m.) London, July 16. There was good competition, at the wool sale. Continental buyers .-operated freely for New Zealand wools, paying up. to 66Jd., the average price heing 63Jd.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Phillip Compton arrived in Sydney not long ugo from Now Zealand, and engaged a room at the. People's Palace, Pitt Street. There he became very friendly with, a man, with whom lie arranged to go to a theatre one Saturday ■ (says the Sydney "Sun"). Thoy walked together down Pitt Street shortly beforo fi o'clock, aud on the way the man asked Compton for his field-glasses in order that lie wight use them at the show. Compton handed them over, and a little further along the street his companion asked for the lean of .£2O. This Comjrfon handed over plbo. They had by this time reached Ute Marble Ear, and Compton's "friend" entered the main entrance without warning, passed through to George Street, and .soon became lost in tho crowd. Ha has'not been seen since. Comnton reported the affair tn tho police. Tho glasses were worth £10. "We can't let our boys abandon school to become jockeys," remarked Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., at Hie New Plymouth Court recently. The occasion was tho hearing of n charge anginsf the parent of a child of schoo' age, who failed to have him enrolled on any school register Tho truant officer stated that the boy, who was 121 years old, hud not been to.school this year, and tho father had already been.fined 10 (inies, He made the plea of shortage- of labour as the excuse for keeping his hoy away from school. "What labour?" asked the Magistrate, and when told the boy was being trained as a jockey in his father's stables, Mr. Poynton said that- s'jrt of thing could not be allowed, i.s it was only "fooling" with the law. "There are too mooiy jockeys already,'-' ho remarked. A fine of £,2 and costs i7s.) was imposed. The London correspondent of an oxchance states that at the inquest at tho Military Hospital at Brereton, Staffs, oil tlm bndv of Rifleman James Tremliath. nf 'the sth Battalion N.Z.R.8., a comrade. Rifleman J. C. F. Watson, stated that he found him in lied on the mornimr of May 1 with his throat cut, and he died in tho Military Hospital at 5 o'clock the same evening. The cause was a comulcto mystery, as Trcnibath was always bright and cheerful. He was not fretting to go back to New Zealand, and would have returned in the ordinary course in July. Lieutenant Whifehorn said deceased had been' in tho Armv twelve months, bore a good character, and as far.as lie knew had never been in nnv trouble. He had not been at. the front. Before his death ho told ii sister he booed ho would not recover, A well-attended meeting listened last evening with evident interest and pleasure to an instructive, address en "Civics," by Professor T. A. Hunter. Tho lecturer I rented his subject in a comprehensive manner, indicating the ideals which every good citizen should keep in front of him, and the dangers of extrwno methods, whether those '.f conservative vested interests or advocates of revolutionary action. At the conclusion of his lecture, Professor Hunter tnswered uiany (|iiestions, and a iiearty'vote cf thanks was accorded to him. Mr. 33. W. Hunt (president) occupied the chair, and amongst the visitors i-resent were members of the local Chambers < f commerce, Workers' Educational Association, and other interested bodies.