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Dunstan Times, Issue 3136, 25 September 1922, Page 7

There has just passed away the man who liuricd IJoIh r! Louis Stevenson on that far-away hilltop above the Pacific Ocean in Samoa. As a missionary in Samoa, the Pov William Edward Clarke was a groat Friend of tlie poet, and the account of the last hours of 11.L.5. tells us that "Mr Clarke was now come, an old and valued friend'. He knelt and prayed, as tlie life ehhed away." It was .MrClarke who read the burial service on the hilltop, and the beautiful poem on ICL.S. by Mr Pdmond Gosse, ivhieli arrived just in time for ICL.S. to read it with tears in Ins eyes. An interesting American visitor to Paris just now is Mr John P. Kolla, who 40 years ago was .lean Pierre Kolla. a miner at K.ivange, in Lorraine, .lean left bis native village in order to escape German military service, and went to Masillon, in tho State of Ohio, with his sweetheart, whom he married, and found work in the coal mines. A few years later he entered a factory for making central heating apparatus, invented a furnace and later founded a. company at Holland, in Michigan, with the husband of his eldest daughter. Now he has returned to Prance a millionaire, and with :i. business which lias 2-j0 branches. He has visited hi.s native village, and it was a great joy for him to he invited to lunch by the grandson of his former employer. Bobbed hair haw completely destroyed the happiness of an Aurora (U.S.A.) home. Mr Thomas E. Oil]ignn's two daughters, aged Ifb and lo years respectively, arrived home with their hair bobbed, with the result that their lather became so angry that he shut them in a room saying that he would keep them there till it grow again. .Mrs Gilligan. however, by no means .shared her husband's resentment, and when she objected Mr Gilligan told her to clear out. She did—with her seven children ; and a petition for separate maintenance has come before the local courts. Peking, the Chinese capital, is in reality three cities in one. There is an inner or Manehu city, and an outer or Chinese city. The inner comprises the Imperial city, which in turn contains "Tlie Forbidden City," or the "Purple Porbiddcn City," inside the walls, of unich again is the Imperial Palace. Peking itself is one of the oldest cities in I lie world, being known to exist in tho twelfth century before Christ, hut although it is of immense s-ize, lining 2-j miles in circumference, much of the space within the walls is unoccupied.