A MILLIONAIRE'S WILL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1920, Page 154

A MILLIONAIRE'S WILL.

CASE OF CHORUS GIRL'S SON LOST. London, March 19. The son of Miss Peggy Marsh cannot inherit his father's share, amounting to £400.000, of the trust fund created by the late Marshall Field, tlie millionaire, for his grandchildren. .Judge Sullivan, in the Superior Court at Chicago last week, delivered this verdict in a suit brought by Mr. Marshall Field the third, to have the will construed. He dwelt on ''the evident pride" of Mr Marshall Field in his name.

The ease hinped upon the tortus "issue" ami "legal issue," both of which are used in the will, and former Governor Dunne, who represented the three-year-old son of the late Henry Field and Miss Peggy March, the London chorus girl, argued that: Mr .Marshall Field evidently intended to make provision for the illegitimate as well as the legitimate children of his grandchildren. This argument, however, the Judge rilled out, declaring that cases must, he decided on the law as it exists. He therefore ordered the £400,000 share of Mr Henry Field to be divided between the other grandchildren—Mr Marshall Field the the third and his sister Gwendolen. The legal representatives of Mr Marshall Field the third announced that lie would turn ovy at least a large part, if not the whole, of his share of this to his sister-in-law, Mrs Naney Perkins Field, who, with the exception of £32, 000 in the personal property of her husband, has so far received nothing from the Field estate. At a meeting of the Women Citizens' Association in Dunedin, during a discussion on the housing question, it was explained that a splendid scheme in connection with this matter had been start : ed in Manchester, England, by the City Council (which has women members) namely, a central hot-water supply, the idea being to have a large boiler-house near any new house under course of construction, and pipes run from it to every house in the row, so that each householder would have the advantage of hot water available day and night. The Manchester City Council decided that at least 1000 of the new houses should have the central hot-water; supply, a few shillings a week to be paid by each tenant for this boon, Tt was agreed that if the women in this country insisted on a. similar scheme being carried out by our own housing committees, they would get it without much difficulty.' What Manchester could do New Zealand could do also.

An American visitor, recently arrived in Auckland, gives many interesting sidelights on the life of American women. With regard to tliose of the younger generation it is distinctly noticeable, says the speaker, that girls who have been engaged in war-work' are now loath to retire to the narrower circle of the liome, and are taking a very keen interest in community work. Many of tliese girls devote much of their time to taking sewing, English, and domestic economy classes in the poorer parts of the city. Another interesting point is the rapidly increasing influx of the Japanese into America, and their strange method of obtaining wives. Numbers of picture post-cards of Japanese girls who are anxious to marry, arrive each month, and the Japanese residents in America choose wives from these portraits. WOMEN JURORS IN ENGLAND. The first appearance of women jurors —the outcome of the Disqualification (Removal) Act of last year—happened at the recent Colchester Assizes. Charged witli feloniously receiving a stolen bicycle, a prisoner informed the Recorder (Sir R. Muir) that he objected to tile presence of three women who had been called as jurors, and his challenge was allowed, the women withdrawing from the jury box. He was acquitted! In two other indictments the prisoners concerned raised no objection when women took their seats. They were convicted!