NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1922, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

];OY STOCK UKUK Eli. NEW YORK. March 7. \ The stc-rv of a 19-years old liny a* tlm head of a firm of outside' stockbre.,;- i (.rs i, the latest of i lie revela I inns eon- > corning the operations of ‘'bucket shops” in Xi”.i York Citv wbi.-li have [illod tbe i-olumns of newspapers for s, M-ral days in consequence of invest i-i-ali II bv tlm I‘ulilio I’rose'iltor. in the ’la i week -3 of these firms nave crono into the hands of receiver . involving clients in losses of hundred-; r! tlions:,mis of pounds. With two associates a bay. I Em:.II. started business as a Aoi !;broker, which imintlis ago was sold to a re-

tired builder of Jlartbml, Connecticut, under an arrangement by which Small was to continue to dire-1 the firm - affairs. East night the pm chaser of the business caused the arrest ol Small and his Uvo assoc-ialcs cm charges ol defrauding him of more than £J.(.H 1.119!) i,v various, forms of fimuu-i-.:! .iugL'jin :.

.TILTED WOMEN. a 1 HARIS, April i. The anli-malc movements aiming women, of which blanches were recciiitly reported to exist. in London, has broken out on ilio Riviera. ’! be iriii j ; 1 1 on- ting is reported ol tli" "League df Woi.i. :i-Yi.-t im-- .4 Men." The proceedings of the new body were licl-.i in secret, but i: is slated Dial tin- < oiidiiious of mi-mhe-!-:,liip arc that candidates must satisfy (he committee ill.n. tliev ’mm- definitely suffered in their own i life rests; through tin- clirc’c-f fault of uie.li. Jilted fiancees, women who have been displaced from business posts cm the real or fancy ground of sex jealousy, spinsters who have lost their incomes mviug to the maladministratton nr fraud of men trustees, or solicitors, are nil among ihe iounctat ion members. The purpose ol the league is lo euemirag.’ the final transfer of elieetivo authority in the world to women, to combat male itillnencc wherever it can I,:' opposed, and to at Tempt to "breakdown tlie convention which causes girlehildren to be taught to aspire to the degrading servitude of marriage with a anal.' whom they are encouraged to rove renee as a superior entity.'