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THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2ND,:*: 1996.
LONDON'S DIVORCE COURT GALLERY.
MAINLY THE IDLE POOR.
DISCREDITABLE SCENES· AT COWLEY DIVORCE CASE.
Twice during the hearing of the fashionable diverce case in which Lord Cowley sued for a divorce from his wife Lady Cowley, naming a Mr. Kent as co-respondent, Was the President Lord Merrivale, obliged to threaten the occupants of the public gallery with ejectior for ribald Iaughter: 6
What sort of people are these who would make a comedy of Divorce Court proceedings pertinently asks the Daily Mail.
The judge sita in the afternoon at p.m. Two hours beforehand a queue was tornded for admission. When the doors were unlocked it had grown to about 100 people, of whom not more than 30 could be admitted.
Places Bold.
At the head of the queue therefore a small trade in places was being done. Five shillings, or
even los changed hands; a tattered loafer stepped out of the line and น more prosperous hate comer took his piace.
Three-quarters of the people in the queue, so the police and ushers declare, jare habitués of the courts. Two men and one woman were pointed out who are known to have been constant visitors for more than 30 years.
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ROYAL BELGO SWEDISH WEDDING.
CIVIL CEREMONY AT STOCKHOLM.
A LOVELY BRIDE.
GIGANTIC WATERSPOUT – IN NORTH SEA.¦
CREW'S TERRIFFING
EXPERIENCE
Further details are now to hand of the
A terrifying experience recently bafel recent Royal wedding in Stockholm. the crew of the Bouth Shields trawler: The civil ceremony of marriage between Mary Hastie as the North Sea Babing the. Duke of Brabant, eldest son of the grounds, when a waterpout was en- King and Queen of the Belgians, and countered. The vessel is now safe in the Princess Astrid, daughter of Prince Oscar Tyne Skipper Florence, from the bridge, Charles, brother of the King of Sweden, said he saw a gigantic spent some miles took place on the afternoon of November | distant approaching at a speed estimated 4th in the Throne Room of the Royal at forty "miles, an” hour. He had seen Palace, says the Daily Mail.
watarapouts from 200 to 300 feet high
in Long balore the hour of the ceremony the tropics, but this one was hanging from a cloud 1,200 to 1,400 feet above the 1-3.30-the Throne Room, a long, very
lofty hall, ornamented with ancient tapes sea *As soon as I saw the thing," con- tries, was filled with brilliant courtierstinned the skipper, "I ordered every- and diplomats and Court ladies, all in thing to be battened down, told the mate white, sitting on beaches ranged along to stand by to cut trawl gear, and order- ed the men under cover. The spout came swooping down on us. It looked as if there was no escape, but when the spout was within two hundred yards the wind dropped for a matter of seconds. This must have caused a vacuum, for the grout |ältered its course and went off with a
terrific rush.'
either side.
A curtain of tapestry was raised, and there appeared the bridesmaids-Princess Marie José, sister of the bridegroom: Princess Martha, sister of the bride; Princess Ingrid, daughter of the Crown Prince of Sweden and of the late Princess Margaret of Connaught Princess Feo- dorevns of Denmark-in girlish dresses of apricot mousseline de soie, with bas Rets of apricot-coloured carnations in their hands,
Presently the most wonderful proces- sion of kings, queens, princes, and pris- cesses since the war entered to the strains of a triumphal march.
The Queen of the Belgiana, in pale blue with a Court, train of royal blue, entered first with the King of Sweden: then the mother of the bride, in turquoise Then there were younger men, slouch-green, with the King of the Belgians ing, furtive, i-dressed, the type of the then the Queen of Denmark, in white and habitual dole drawer, and one or twat faming red train, with the King of youths in their 'teens.
Norway.
Socialist street-corner orators say that They and the other royal personages of the Divorce Court galleries are fled with the long procession bowed to the assem- the idle rich: They are not; they are bly on either side as they walked to the Alled with the idle poor.
dais, where they took their places look. When the doors were opened the babi-ing down the hall to the entrance, which tués got all the seats in the front row, was concealed again by the tapestry. and scowled when the patient usher, to
then the music of the Wedding March There was a hush, of expectation, and make room for someone with a real in- terest in the case, made them crowd from "Lohengrin." closer together.
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Women in the gallery were in minority-a dözen all told-and not more than two could have been called "weil dressed."
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in the tapestry was drawn aside, and a procession entered which made one forget the kings and queens who had just passed by. First came into the glow- ing light of the hall officials of the Court; then the Duke of Brabant, a tall figure in khaki leading his bride and then the royal bridesmaids and groomsmen...
Never has a bridegroom led a lovelier bride to marriage. Frincess Astrid is tall with black hair, dark eyes, and very long, dark lashes, and although she is not quite 21, she has a queenly bearing,
One elderly, dressed in black furs, "known by the officials to have a personal interest in the case, sat and heard the painful evidence in deep silence, im- mobile. The other, younger, in the early 'thirties perhaps (though her make-up made it difficult to fix her age), munchef chocolates till the floor round her was a litter of silver paper. When something was said that would have shocked de soie, with touches of pearl embroi decent woman' she laughed and audgedj dery and with three flouncea of Brussels an ekterly man who was her escort
At the back was a man who chewed without interruption, and another who slept.
They all felt Lord Merrivale's eye upon them. When the chocolate eater tittered, someone in the front-row said "Hush," and they all glanced at the judge with anxiety, lest they should be deprived of their cheap entertainment.
Downstairs & servent was giving un- pleasant evidence. The front row habit tués grinned and whispered to one Women another behind their hands. stood up to get a better view,
When the court rose.at 4 p.m. there was a general rush to the courtyard to see Lady Cowley leave.
She wore a dress of white montseline
lace. Her long Court train of white sik was embroidered in white and ber veil was of Brussels lace-it was the one worn by her grandmother at her wedding.
He added that but for that circumstance, another mystery at the sea would have been recorded.
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The Princess wore a little crown of myrtles, which in Sweden take the places, of orange blossom.
She smiled as she bowed to the Court with great dignity when the bridegroom led her to the table near the royal dais, where the Mayor of Stockholm was waiting to perform the simple ceremony. This lasted only seven minutes.
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When the mayor asked the bridegroom Fri. in Swedish whether he would take this woman to be his wedded wife, the. Prince's "Yes," also spoken in Swedish, Sun. was heard throughout the hall, but the Princess whispered her reply.
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The case was eventually stopped by the jury, Lord Cowley's petition being that the ceremony was over and the The
The firing of a cannon told the capital dismissed without calling on the defence. a Complete Service of Original Lord and Lady Cowley are both mem-bride and bridegroom took their places
bers of the theatrical profession, but on the royal dais between the King and Wel apart from that fact the case presented Queen of the Belgians. no particularly interesting features.
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SIR ROBERT HORNE'S OPTIMISM.
The vital importance to Great Britain of the outcome of experiments to extract oil from coal was the main subject of the address which Sir Robert Horns, M.P.,
The Golden Goach.
After the Prince and Princess had re- ceived the congratulations of thein re- latives and friends, they were conducted to the courtyard of the palace, where the golden coach was drawn up.
old was the golden cunch of fairy tales
in which the Beautiful Princess and the Prince Charming drove away to be happy ever after. And in it they had this Beautiful Princess in her bridal raiment and this Prince Charming in khaki, with the blue and white ribbon of the Order
delivered to members of the Institution of St. Seraphim conferred on him to-day of Fuel Economy Engineers, following a by the King of Sweden, luncheon at the Connaught Rooms, at The golden coach with four milk white which he was the principal guest. Bir horses rattled out of the palace courts Hugo Hirst presided
yard into the street, where crowds of Sir Robert Horne said he could not people were standing to greet the bridal imagine any other sphere in which pair, and all along the route to the home economy could produce such extraordi- of the bride's parents people cheered nary and inspiring results as in that of the royal lovers. coal. The country was losing advantage of a vast amount of unconsumed fuel and apused beat. Nevertheless, in this re- gion of new enterprise the British people had not fallen behind either the scientific or practical inventions of other countries. the Princess and her mother start on the same journey by another route. They
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And presently "Farewell!" The Prince' must go to join his parents for the journey to Belgium. And an hour later
But attempts to repent laboratory will meet again at Antwerp. The Prince periments on a commercial scale had not, will then conduct his bride to Brussels, up to the present, met with such success where in the historic church of St. to justify the investment of large Gudule, the religious ceremony will be capital resources. This country imported
performed. oil to the amount of nearly 1,300,000,000 gallons a year. That was a portentous figure when they thought of the gradua! eating away of the oil supplies of the world. It was moreover, a very dan- gerous thing for a country like Great Britain to be obliged to rely upon out- side sources for her oil, on a supply of
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COLCHESTER MANSION BURNED DOWN.
Little Bromley Hall, a mansion of great antiquity near Colchester, was destroyed by fire on November 5th. This brings the total number of serious outbreaks of fire at English mansions and country houses this year to 30.- The outbreak at Little Bromley Hall
that are being at their riak into the hazardous and/or extra hazardens Robert, along which investigation had Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Waar been proceeding the process by which and Godown Co., Ltd., whence, andfer from the oil was obtained by treating powdered occurred early on the morning of Novem whares Delivery may be obtained.
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