U.S. PRICES DROP

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1921, Page 3

U.S. PRICES DROP

NEW YORK, Nov. 29 Two heavy falls in the prices of

staple foodstuffs were registered yesterday. Wheat touched a new low level ! in Kansas markets, and a further fall ' is predicted by the leading millers. Yesterday's price was 6s 6d a bushel, but during the war wheat rose to nearly 15s. Despatches from Chicago report that the price of pigs yesterday fell to pre- ; war level. The pigs are arriving in the ' markMs by tens of thousands.

j AVRONGLY ACCUSED MAN. ! LONDON, November 27. For two days there has been no news of Mr AValter Hunt, aged 56, for 15 ! years a checker in the employ of the j'London and ,South- AAestern Railway Co. He was greatly distressed by a mistaken charge of improper conduct brought against him at Lambeth Police Court and he disappeared on Tuesday morning, before the charge was with--1 drawn and his innocence established. 1 His landlady, Mrs Hoare, of South AAbiltion-terrace, Sriuth hanibeth-road, S.E., told -a DaHy Mail Reporter last | night: “He had boen fretting about the charge. At one o’clock on Tuesday morning he came into the house 1 tired out and distressed. He said: ‘I have been miles and miles- I don’t know where.’ i “I went out in the morning, but, before I had returned he had gone. He was wearing a black overcoat with velvet collar, no hat, a brown tweed suit a striped blue and black tie, and Heed up boots.”

SMITHY SCIENCE. LONDON, Nov 29. Professor Bickerton, president of the London Astronomical Society, was not the onlv pupil of Moses Pullen, the old blacksmith of Painswiek, Gloucestershire, who owed success in science to his teaching. Mr Arthur Moeze, who came to London as Professor Bickerton’s assistant when he was 14, and who, like the professor. won an exhibition at the Royal School of Mines, and became an inventor, attributes his success to the smithy scientist. “Moses Pullen influenced my whole life,” .Air Meezo .in his home at Painswick said. “These hooks, my study of science, my inventive ability, might very likely never have been mine il at the impressionable years of my life I had not sat at his feet in the old school and learned from him. The attitude ot mind lie engendered was so inspiring. He was not a literary man, hut a great practical teacher of geometry, geology, physics, engineering, and othei things.