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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 31, 31 October 1907, Page 8

• The ! citizens of Napier have taken'up the proposal to hold a Carnival -in/that town in March-with an enthusiasm-which docs: them credit. Tho committee's appealifor a guarantee fund has, been (responded: to very liberally,^no less a sum ' than; / approximately,', £1000 having-*boon- guaranteed-;, according to the local "Herald." ■ Something-- like •'£6 so will he paid away m prize money: during the Carnival, which will extend':;over : ton - days, from the loth, to .t-ho 25th: March.. , ... ■; ~

In' the 1 course of his sermon' at St. Michael's church last Sunday evening,-/,hjs Lordship Uishop Julius made an interesting reference to that popular' subject; of controversy,; the unequal distribution 'of wealth. Material wealth, ho said; according to the Christchurch "Press,was given'to t-ho individual in trust, to administer for the general good,' not forMiis owii' pleasure or gratification. .If tho individual failed to i crerry ■ out the duties of his trust; as was tho present day tendency, it- was not 'surprising;to find the workers asking whother tlie.v should not have ii share in tho spending : and; enjoyment'of tlie wealth they had assisted to cteato: If he had 'a guarantee that tho masses: would administer wealth as a trust for tlio jjisneral good, he would -say, "Give us-Socialism to-morrow," but tho masses of the people, with their £10, wore just as likely to waste it or'spend it as foolishly as tho capitalist with his £100."