THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 10, 1987.
THE
"Half-Time In Church
WORLD Services
GOES BY
HINGS are bad.
A "half-time" interval is to be introduced into the Sunday evening services at St. Paul's Furzedown, Mr. Sunniayasi, R. P. John, of Streatham. By this arrangement 56, King-street, Ceylon. doesn't people will be able, if they choose, much hope for we British.
to go to church for only half an He has just written a long letter hour to hear half the service. to a Home paper.
And a very gloomy one it is, too. Not really the sort of thing to start a Monday morning on,
But still, I think you ought to
know.
The Vicar, the Rev. E. F. L. Hen- son, stated that the experiment would be tried for the first time on Whit Sunday, May 16. "There are always complaints," he said, "that the ordinary Evensong is not in- "I am a man of Bank skin.
teresting, or that the whole service "Oh Great Britain you are of the takes too long, or that people do white skin. No prophets at all in not find the church bright enough, England. Whether you believe or or the services start too early after not, I don't care.
"Great Anger of God going to happen to London!
tea.
"I am going to try to overcome| all those objections by dividing the "London Danger. Poison Gas and evening service into two. Ordinary, Bombs and Shells and plague Evensong will be held at the usual; bombs!
time, but there will be no sermon, and the service, for all practical purposes, will be completed within half an hour.
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"At seven o'clock we shall start and Roman and France.
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When I begin to fast I am not chiefly of a bright sermon, hymns, willing to drink a drop of water and appropriate prayers.”
even.
"I swear it on the Holy Bible that
15 WILL
if a beautiful woman dances in SHARE HOUSTON
front of me naked, it will appear to
me that I do not understand whether FORTUNE
she is a man or a woman !
"If you fail by listening to the word of a few money making and money seeking people who for their Dinners own enjoyment of Royal
and Dances, and wine drinking, kill the poor and drink their blood, you and your Dominions will be des- troyed by Satan's tricks.
"Be told?
"Sure! Sure! Sure!"
SEARCHES FOR RELATIVES
DEATH DUTY CLAIM TO BE FOUGHT
At least 15 relatives of Lady Houston will share in the fortune she left.
relatives.
Letter to a Colonel în India:
In addition to her sister, Mrs. Florence Wrey, to whom letters of Honoured Master,-Having heard of your almighty mercy and loving they include a brother, two nieces, administration have been granted, kindness to us worms I tell you my a nephew, and the children of other « circumstances. By the gracé of God and your Lordship I have
The addresses of some of the re- seven children all babies and sucklings, besides this abominable believed to be in Australia. They latives are not known, but they are litter I have many male and female relations. What have I done that are being asked, through advertise-
should be
ments, to apply to the solicitors. cursed trials:
Lady Houston's fortune will be disposed of as if she had died in-
blessed with such
as your Lordship is |
my father and mother, I write to testate, her will having been ren- request that you will take this worth and wife and suckles
dered invalid by the fact that Miss and relations both male and female and Juliana. Margaret Hoare, an aunt
provide for us from your bounty at a remuneration of Rs. 20 a month.
£4,500,000 Total
of Sir Samuel Hoare, to whom the estate was left, died nearly nine I cannot read or write and have only months before her. the suckle qualifications and male, relations and feminine but by the land and the estimated value of the The amount of the estate in Eng- grace of God and your almighty Jersey estate total roughly £4,500,- Lordship I look forward to years of prosperity and happiness. All the
is approximately the people of Deoli sing of your praises husband in 1926, after payment of sum left to Lady Houston by her your justice and mercy, therefore call us all that we may fatten on Treasury's death duties claim on £1,500,000 in settlement of the your love and gentleness.
quickly your faithful won Call
beast. Munnie Lall,
brute and unwilling babies.
and Despicable father'
(Continued from next Col.)
paid.
of
000. This
the Jersey estate.
Sir Robert Houston bequeathed £1,000,000 of his £7,000,000 fortune to Mr. George Henry Appleton, of Liverpool, who had been his con- fidential adviser and friend for nearly 30 years.
A member of the firm of Nichols The Treasury has not yet con- son, Graham and Jones, the solici- sidered what action, if any, will be tora acting for the next-of-kin, stat- taken to claim death duties from ed that liability for duties on the Lady Houston's estate in Wersey, Jersey estate would turn on the now estimated at £3,000,000. Duties question of domicile. Any claim, of £690,000 on the English estate he added, would be resisted... of £1,528,000 have already been Lady Houston died in December (Continued at foot of preceding at Byron Cottage, Hampstead,
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