LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4594, 22 May 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

FOR BLINDED SOLDIERS. The tour of Mr : Clutha Mackenzie, Mil';; in furtherance of the Arthur Pearson memorial fund campaign met with considerable- success in the South Island: Timaru has got £SOO of its quota of £-800 through tho newspaper columns alone. Geraldine promised £l5O, .£BO of which has beon already • subscribed. Temuka is arranging to raise £2OO. Latest report is that £BOOO lias been promisod in Canterbury. Dunedin, Gore, and Invercargill have also had successful meetings, and committees aro at work endeavouring to raise their quota. The proposal is to raise a sum of £45,000 in the Dominion as a memorial to the late Sir Arthur Pearson, the annual income of which will ho used to extend tho work of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, by help and encouragement to the blind in all parts of Zealand. The proportion of tho fund for Auckland city and province will be about £14,000. SENSATIONAL STINNES. A writer in a Gorman newspaper has been estimating the fortune of that mystery magnate, Herr Hugo Stiimes. Before the war his private wealth amounted to 35,000,000 marks—gold marks, of course. His fortune to-day is rather more difficult to estimate, ' because it is scattered over so many companies and in numerous countries. But financial circles which follow his feverish activity with very considerable interest and attention say he is now worth 140,000,000 marks—gold. Ho has thereby quadrupled his wealth during the war and since. In paper, that fortune equals- the dizzy figure of 7,000,000,000 marks, so that. Hugo Stinnes is a millionaire 7,000 times over. Asked recently why he worked night and day piling up millions, he replied, "It is for my children." Ho has two sons and a daughter. BAD BOSHEVISM. In an article on "China's Civil War" in tho Sydney Morning Herald, Mr S. Spurgeon Mcdhurst writes: The last Chinese mail brirfgs a remarkable story of Bolshevist propaganda in China. A copy of the gospel of St. Luke was found to have an 18-page Bolshevist tract bound up with it. The gospel, a paper-covered pamphlet, had been unstitched and stitched up again with the Bolshevist sheets, the type and paper of which corresponded with that of the gospel. It was so well done that it was not noticeable to tho casual reader, but while the gospel was written in the colloquial, the style of the propaganda was classical. It is probable that other Christian books have been tampered with in the same way and that, unknown to themselves, tho missionaries have been utilised as agents for Bolshevism. The document professes to describe the "paradise of Christ and the commonwealth of Lue Zu." It advocates the abolition of the State, the law, the family, and chasitiy. SHE DID HER BIT.

Much is henird of the young woman of tho present day, her fondness for the latest in fashionable attire, and reluctance to do anything in the nature of menial work (remarks the Ashburton Guardian). A case which has just recently been revealed disproves this generalisation in at least one case. Quite recently a young woman, holding a responsible position in an office, left her home in the North Island to spend an extended holiday ■ with friends on a farm not one hundred miles from Ashburton. Shortly after her arrival the husband of her friend was taken seriously ill. and died after a short illness. During the trouble the young woman in question, with the assistance of two of the soldier settlers, " milked 35 cows night and morning, and during harvest cooked for the men. DUNEDIN'S VACANT SEAT. It is anticipated that each )f the three political parties will be represented by a candidate in the contest for the Dunedin North seat, following on the death of Mr Kellett. The name of Mr J. J. Clark is mentioned as that of a probable candidate in the Reform interest. It is understood that overtures have been made on behalf of the Wilford-Statham party to two or three electors in the district to stand as its nominee, and tho name of Mr W. Begg. Mr Clark's successor in the Mayoralty of Dunedin, lias received some prominence in this connection. The selection by the Labour Party of its candidate is said to lie between Mr J. W. Munro and Mr .T. Gilchrist (secretary of the Labour Representation Committee). Mr J. r. Paul, the ex-M.L.C, has been asked, but has declined, to accept the nomination of the party. The primary schools re-opened this morning, after the term holidays. Irene Castle, dancer and photoplayer, has made definite arrangements to make an extensive tour in vaudeville, and she will appear in Australia at tho end of the year. Mr William Jones, the Whangarei County Chairman, announces his candidature for the Marsde>i seat as an Independent Reform candidate. Archbishop Julius intends to remain in the North Island for the next few weeks. Arrangements are being made in Christchurch to give a public welcome on his return there. "In time of trial," said the preacher, "what brings us the greatest comfort?" "An acquittal,"- responded a person who should never have been admitted. A Chicago message states that the prosecution'' will demand the imposition of the death penalty on eight prominent Labour leaders who are indicted for murder as the result of the recent dynamiting incidents. They are not charged with the actual commission of the crime, but with inciting others to riot, resulting in killings. "We will be compelled in the future to invoke the aid of women as police, detective officers, as justices, said Mr McCarthy, ex-magistrate of Christchurch, in an address delivered to a W.C.T.U. The motion pictures of the pygmies of the Congo, which were secured for Paramount by the well-known priest, explorer, and anthropologist, Dr. Leonard J. Vandenbergh, aro going the rounds in England under the general title of ''Wild Men of Africa." Everybody's in Feilding has shown some of the series.

| "It is likely that tawa, a Now Zealand timber, will very shortly l-eplaee all imported oak for furniture making purposes,' said Mr Arthur Seed, of the Now Zealand Sawmillers' Federation. "It is eminently suitable for this purpose, for it is hard, and has a grain very similar to oak." The committee have all arrangements well in hand for Stanway's ball, to be held on June 6th, and it promises to be a big success. Tho music, which is to be ..supplied by Edwards' Orchestra of five ihstrunients,will include all the, latest danco hits as well as several numbers played at. Princess Mary's wedding hall. The smoothness of the floor of the Stanway Hall is well known. An excellent supper will be provided, and altogether patrons can be assured of having a real good time. Book it up. The Wellington Board of Education has decided to make representations to tho Education Department with a view to the restoration of the swimming capitation. The Mining Deparment states that a diamond drill which has been working on Dobson's Flat, an endowment of the Greymouth Harbour Board, struck a seam of coal ten feet thick at a depth of 822 feet. In criticising the matriculation examination, a'speaker at the secondary school assistants' conference in Wellington on Wednesday asked: "What precautions have the authorities taken against 'personation ?' " I heard only recently," he added, "that a secondary school teacher was offered the sum'of £2O if ho would go down to Christchurch and sit for an examination there under tho name of a candidate who had been unsuccessful in previous years,"