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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16th, 1928.
THE PEAK CHURCH.
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ANNUAL COMMITTEE MEETING.
FEES TO CLERGYMEN AND FOR WEDDINGS.
At the annual general meeting of the Peak Church held yesterday,|
PEER AND VICAR- BAITERS."
LORD ST. AUDRIES'S OUTBURST.
MODERATE CHURCHMEN AND ALLEGED ROMISH,
PRACTICES."
.MINEHEAD.'
Everybody in the little Somerest in the Cathedral Hall the questions village of Stogureer is discussing, of fees to be paid by the. Com-ays a Home paper, the remarkable mittoe to clergymen officiating in outburet at the crowded parochial meeting there by Lord St. Andres, the Church was thoroughly thrashed who said he bad never seen a more oud. It was finally decided that unchristian gathering in the whole a lee of 38 was to be paid to any of his life. clergyman officiating at any of the usual services in the Peak Church.
The question of the foes to ba charged for weddings at the Peak Church was also discussed at some length a decision being arrived at that the charge was to be $5 to the treasury of the Church, to the church coolie, and the amount of the honorarium to the officiating clergyman is to be arranged between him and the bridegroom.
Mr. W. L Pattenden was in the chair, others present being the Right Rev. the Bishop of Victorin, the Very Rev. the Dean (the Rev.
*All some of you come here for," he exclaimed to the parishioners, "is to bait the ricar."
He told a woman not on the parochial electoral roll that unless she left, he would. The woman protesting that she had been
treated scandalously "-left Mr. Oswald Clements, people's warden, who had an argument with the vicar at the meeting over the constitution of the roll, said that there had been differences during the last two years between ranny of the parishioners and the vicar, the Rev. Basil R. Tucker.
Vestment Objection.
A year ago Mr. Clements object A. Swann), Lady Pollock, Hised to the wearing by the vicar of Honour Mr. P. Jacks and Mrs. An embroidered cope. This, Mr. Jacks, Colonel and Mrs. H. Clements described as a Romish Riley, the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie,
vestment. Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar and Dr. J. H. Sanders.
The Balance Shoot.
The proceedings were opened by a short prayer by the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie. Col H. G. Riley (Hon. Treasurer) proposing the adoption of the balance sheet, said that the deficit of 8250 was accounted for by the fact that while the whole of the expenses entailed by the memorial window to Mr. and Mrs Bowdler had been met, the sale of Straits war loan bad not bees com. pleted at the time when the balance sheet was made up. No payments had been made to any clergy this year. The accounts were passed on the proposition of Colonel H. G. Riler, acconded by Dr. J. H. Sanders.
Secretary's Report.
The Very Rev. the Denn (Hon. Secretary) read his report as fol- lows:-
SERVICES.-During the past year there has been. Holy Communion in the Peak Church every Sunday at
8.13 m.
WOMAN. ROUTS BURGLARS.
DESPERATE FIGHT IN
BEDROOM.
BAREFOOT CHASE · IN STREET.
A middle-aged woman pluckily went to her husband's assistance when he was violently attack- ed by three masked men who broke into the house. She best off the intruders, and chased them in her nightclothes, and bare feet for more than 200 yards.
The woman it Mrs. Jacobs, the wife of Mr. Gaskell Jacoba, man- again director of "The Times," Fur- nishing Co., who lives at 15, Park square East, Regent's Park, N.W.
"Mr. Jacobs, who is 50, was asleep in a bedroom on the first floor when he was awakened by a noise Be fore he had time to realise what was happening he received a blow on the head and was stunned. He dimly realised that three men were in the room, cne of whom held him down on the bed, while another be laboured him with the spindle of a roller-towel holder.
Mra. Jacobs's Story." Although he fought desperately, Mr. Jacobs was overcome and in danger of being killed. His cries for help awakened Mrs. Jacobs, who was sleeping in an adjoining room with her young daughter.
"The vicar," he said, "is an
Mra. Jacobs, who is about 5ft in extreme Anglo-Catholic, and he is height and sturdily built, rushed supported by Lord St. Andrics,into her husband's room and fought who is vicar's warden.
Most of the people in Stogursey are moderate church people. They object to what they consider are vicar's Romish practices."
Mr. Tucker is said to be a very outspoken preacher, and some of his utterances appear to have been resented by parithionere.
:
Mrs. Brown, the woman who left the meeting, declared that the vicar tried to make children Bow to the altar before taking their seats, and that he attempted to introduce" the confessional.
CINEMA NEWS.
SORRELL AND SON/"
Sorrell and Son which is to be shewn at the Queen's to-day until Saturday, has been directed by Herbert Brenan who was respon- sible for Beau Geste" and "Peter Pan" The story of the British officer who sacrificed everything for his son has been adapted from a novel of the same name by War
COMMITTEE Two meetings of the Committee have been held.
Licut-Col H. G. Riley has taken the place of Mr. D. E. G. Nicholson as Hon. Treasurer, and Mrs. Riley was elected on to the Committee inwick Deeping. Among the caste place of Mrs. Wood.
At the Committee meeting on January 27th, 1929, a resolution of appreciation of the Rev. H. Copley Moyle's long servicce as Hon. Secre- tary was unanimously adopted. suggest that this meeting endorses the Committee's action in this res рест
Dean Swan was elected Hon. Secretary.
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MEMORIAL WINDOW.-The window to be placed in the Church in memory of the Inte Mr. and Mrs. Bowdler will shortly be installed. It was dispatched from England on April 18th. Te contractor has been instructed to be ready to fit it as zoon as it arrives. The maker's account of £200 has been paid.
VESTRY ROOT.In the middle of March, through a beam falling from the roof of the Vestry, it was dis covered that white ants had been it work in it. Since the condition
are B. B. Warner as Captain Sor- rell and Anna Q.. Nilsson as his wife,
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SUICIDE RATHER THAN
DOLE.
In recording a verdict of Suicide while of Uamund Mind at a Lambeth inquest on Charles Hedge cock, aged 68, a house painter, of Ackerman-road, Brixton, who cut his throat with a razor in Kenning- ton Park, the coroner, Mr. Oddie, said it was a case of a good work- man who had been persecuted by bad health.
Hedgecock, he added, was a self- respecting, self-supporting man who disliked the dole and parish relief
of the roof was critical Dr. Banders, because he felt he was not earn. at the Secretary's request, consulting it.
ed the Church Architects, Messrs. Mr. Oddie gave the widow, who Denison, Ram & Gibbs, who, after is left without means, £1 out of examination, advised that a con- his poor box, A
-crete roof be substituted for the present one, and estimated $990 as the cost of doing so. This seemed too high a figure. Dr. Banders, therefore, kindly met the architects again, and as a result has had the present roof repaired effectively for $35. The roof is now sound. I hope that the meeting will approve of the work having been done in this Wedding Fees,
the three men with such effect that they ran down the staircase and into the street. She chased them into Marylebone Road, where they disappeared.
Mrs Jacobs told the story of her adventure to a reporter. She said:
I was awakened soon after 3 o'clock by the ahouts of men's voices, and having been to see
Thunder in the Air" on Satur day night, I thought I was having & nightmare. I asked my daugh ter what was happening, and then I heard a voice, which I recognia- Take ed as my husband's, say what you like, but for God's sake leave me alone. You are killing me."
In a flash. I realised what was the matter and rushed into my husband's room. He was then on his feet beside the bed struggling. with three men. The upper parts of their faces were covered with masks."
"I Went Mad."
My husband's face was bleed- ing, and he had bruises over his eye and on both checks. When I saw his position I went mad, and without thinking of the conso quences rushed at his attackers,. striking left and right as hard as I could.
The men were evidently surpris ed, and ran towards the door. L. caught hold of the coat of one of the men, but he dragged me down the staira with such violence that the nails of my fingers were tora. In the hall he broke away from me. The pavement was wet, but I was so annoyed that they had got away that I ran after them as far as Marylebone Road. My husband was badly knocked about and is suffering from shock. I "acted automatically in defence of my husband.
Search For Safe Keys. A brother of Mr. Jacobs, who was called to the house, said:
There is no doubt that Mrs Jacobs's plucky struggle saved my brother's life. The bruises on his face show that he was beaten with great violence.
It is believed that the burglars entered the house by a basement door and were making a search for the keys of Mr. Jacobs's safe where jewellery and other valuables are kept. These keys are in Mr. Tee For Taking Bervices. Jacobs's room, and the thieves had The question of the fee of $5 not found them when he was
disturbed. which has been paid to clergymen officiating at the Peak Church was fully discussed. It has been asstim- ed that this sum was to cover the travelling expenses of any clergy- man coming from the lower levels, but the Dean pointed out that in case could these expenses The Secretary announced that hono had circulated an appeal to the amount to 85. The Bishop of Victoria thought it, well to have a Committee to sanction the fee of definita fee for clergymen taking John Slater, aged 16, who lived $32 being charged for weddings in
Way.
WIDOW'S LOST BOY.
MYSTERY OF A ZULULAND TRIP.
Scotland Yard is searching for
the Peak Church as was the custom services irrespective of where they with his widowed mother at Rat- in the Cathedral, the $32 to be lived, but the Rev. J. Kirk Macon- cliffe Cross-street, Stepney, E. In allocated in the same fashion; $25 achie delicately suggested that the February last year he left home to the officiating priest, 88 for the fee might indaco certain clergy to with a man named Francis Re- treasury of the Church and $2 for hold extra services, and at the same ginald Atkins Payne, ostensibly to the church coolie.
time others might be unwilling to take up employment on a cotton The Bev. J. Kirk Maconachie dis accept any fee for conducting one plantation in Zululand. agreed on the ground that a poor of the usual services. It was decid man could not always afford 830ed after considerable argument that and equally the clergyman often the sum of $5 be paid to any clergy did not wish to take a fee. Dr. man who takes one of the customary Sanders suggested that the fee services in the Peak Church. should be fixed at 87,35 for the Church and $2 for the coolie, leav ing the question of the clergyman's fee for the parties to decide. His Honour Mr. P. Jacks enquired what was the cathedral rule.
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From that time his mother has heard nothing of him with the ex- ception of a letter which she re- ceived a fetr weeks afterwards pur OIL IN WATER MYSTERY. porting to have been sent from Capetown. Her inquiries suggest that the man and boy did not leave TWO England.
HERTFORDSHIRE VIL LAGES DRINKING MILK:
A burat barrel of oil. Aleakage, from the pumping
machines. ---
The work of a practical joker Mr. T. B. Greenway, a parish councillor, of Wormley, said that paraffin oil came from their taps once before, about this time last
out the cause.
The Langridge the engineer year, and no one was able to find
On the proportion of Mr. Bonnar, seconded by Mr. Jacks, the-Com- It is believed that the boy is mitteo were re-elected as follows:- posing as Payne's son. They were
Every effort is being made to Mr. Jacks, Mr. Patienden, Mr. seen in the north of England last Bonnar (trustees), the Right Eev. October, and Scotland Yard asks solve the mystery of the presence of that it might be said that-the-lee Swann-the-Rev. J. Kirk Macon- should be given at any police fordshire sillage of Broxbourne The Bishop of Victoria suggested the Bishop, the Very Rev. Dean that any information about them oil in the water supply of the He:t de and in, that of the neigh-earing was ordinarily $32, but that this achie, Sir Henry Pollock, Mra station. sum should be reduced at the clergy Pollock, Col Biley (Hou, TreasurThe boy is described as: Height village of Wormleyside the pumping station, characterised man's discretion, at the same time er),
Bit. lin., fresh complexion, round. he felt it was better that the fee Dr. J. Herbert Sanders proposed face, auburn hair, blue eyes, should be clearly understood by all. and the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie medium build, rather girlish-look It was decided to enter in the seconded, that the beams of the ing minutes that the fee was $5 for the Church roof be tarred, and that the Payne is described as an engineer, Church, $9.for the coolie and that Church be closed for one Bunday aged about 48,height 6ft 8in. it was usual but not compulsory far for this purpose
rather large, bent nose, blue eyes, the officiating priest to have an
brown hair, high forehead, and honorarium of $25.1. #
square chin. He has a considerable knowledge of South Africa
(Continued on next Dolumn).
The Bendediction pronounced by the Right Hey. the Bishop closed the proceedings.
The well, 100ft. deep, from which as absurd, the suggestion that the the water is pumped and laid on oil had come from his machines. to the housta, was inspected by the There was no leakage anywhere Hertfordshire medical officer and I've been here since 1905, he add- his assistant.need, and Tmply canot under Inquiries made by a Daily Mail aland where the oil comes from," reporter produced four theories to Mezuwhile the villagers are account for the oil being in the drinking milk and importing water in bottles from neighbouring sup- water-namely:""
An underground oil spring,