LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 10 April 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A series of cinematograph performances- are being" .arranged in London to show the' utility of using- movingpictures in schools as an aid ■to education. tAt the . performance 1 : will he exhibited . upon the screen pictures ildustratiag Mstory, natural history, geography, and industrial processes.

accompanied by an explanatory lecture. The -Board of Education of -■■ Hamburg have decided th-at h enceforth -.' 'cine-education -'- shall form part of the ordinary curriculum of the city's elementary schools. They have made -arrangements for a lecture on "The 'Drama of the Earth." illustrated by movincr pictures', ' to be given in a cinemato-graph-theatre, anct repeated daily ur<tfl all the children • attending the State schools have ibeen present, when, a fresh' subject of instruction

The monk Heliodorus, one of the worst demagogues of tiie Union of thei Russian People, refused to obey the orders of, the Holy Synod transferring- him from Tsaritsyn, where hishis conduct has long been a public scandal, and locked himself up with his fanatical followers in the church, taking a solemn vow that he would die of starvation. The Synod sent a Bishop to bring him to reason. Helio dorus a year ago secured the Tsar's special protection under the plea that he. was imbued with the most intense loyalty' and patriotism- Te thereupon incited the passions of the mob" against the local authorities, scurrilously aßusing-' the Governor, who. was forced to resign. me' ivumara Tunes publishes a strange siory of an incident ailtgeu io nave taKen plifCeV ia urevmoutli., as ioliows:— ''A "mysterious occurrence, made all the more mysterious oy the absence-of any reference to v in the krey papers is reported to have occurred near a public place at Greymouth on Tuesday evening. From information at our disposal .we learn that persons attracted by noise found a woman apparently in a faint mg condition, with a man pulling* her by tne shoulder. On being- accosted the man stated the lady was his friend, but when asked where the lady lived was unable to give any inlormation. Upon recovery the lady asked to be driven 1 to a friends house at Cobden whither she was immediately taken. It was only upon her arrival there that she found that she had been jobbed of all her money, and was unable to pay the cab fare. In the meantime the protector (?) has disappeared, and all efforts on the part of the police to prove.his whereabouts have proved ineffectual / More should certainly be Heard >of this matter." The late contest .of the North Island Bands Asociation has not result ed as well as anticipated, there' being, a deficit of £25, which the Palmerston North guarantors will be called upon to make up. The expen diture ran up to £786,