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Up A Fortune
Faith means more than tame or neoronet to Brother Peter Hubert Gordon Gilbey, the 23-year-old Benedictine monk who has become heir to the ancient Vaux of Harrowden.
peerage of
It will make no difference at all to me.
I propose to continue my training for the priesthood," he told me at the lovely monastery of Ampleforth, in the Yorkshire hills, recently, writes a Home cor- respondent.
"I have still two years of train- Ing before I become a priest. At the end of that time I shall still remain a member of the Benedic- tine community," he added.
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RENOUNCED WEALTH
Mr. Gilbey is known at the monastery 15 Don Gabriel. He said he entirely approved of the petition which his mother, the Hon. Mrs. Grace Gülbey, had suc- cessfully made for the Barony of Vaux of Harrowden to be deter- mined in her favour.
"But should the title descend to me I shall not leave the Romani Catholic Church," he said.
In his decision to renounce the world Don Gabriel was guided only by his own desires Wealth was his for the asking, but he prefer- | red the secusion of life as a monk, Peter Gilbey has been a student at a Roman Catholic college at Ox ford for six years. a trieng, told me.
"Every holiday, instead of going to his mother's home at Welling- borough, he went to Ampleforth, where, in cowl and habit of a Benedictine monk, he lived the
normal life of the Brothers," the
friend said.
"He is a studious young man. clever and strong-minded. If he says he will keep to his chosen
The health returns for the 21 hours ended midnight Monday re-path he certainly will not swerve
from it." cases of enteric fover, two cases. If he is unable to reconcile suc- of dysentery, two cases of diph- theria, three cases of measles and cession to the barony with bis one case each of chicken-pox and church work it is expected the title would descend to his brother. John cerebro-spinal' meningitis.
Hugh Philip Gilbey, who is a year
“HOWLERS" FOR THE HOLIDAYS End-of-Term exams before the sumnjer holldays have brought a new crop of school- boy howlers.
Here re some-from the Herloter Journal of the George Herlot's School. Edinburgh:
"Shylock was a very clever man and one of his best points was his respect for his wife when he said: 'I would not change her for a wilderness of monkeys.'"
"Lieutenant is the man who helps the sergeant-major to keep the army in order.”
**"Take away that bauble' was said by Walpole with reference to the South Sea Bauble."
The Queen Becomes "Isabel"
Children
GENERAL
Old Lag Will Be Allowed
L
To Spend Christmas
Outside Jail Walls
FOR SAKE OF HIS WIFE
For the sake of his wife, who expects to become a mother in December, an old lag with a terrible record" will be allowed to spend next Christmas outside Jall walls.
He told Southend magistrates that he had spent 14 of the last 16 Christmases in'custody.
Frederick Chatterier, aged 58. has been married
months.
Already serving a six months' sentence for theft, he appeared in
Southend police court on a Home TWO BOY
Once order, recently, and plead- ed guilty to two charges of lar ceny.
REAL FRIEND
only ten
SMOKERS
EXPELLED
In a statement to the Bench he said, " told my wife of my record Two Poole Grammar School after we were married. Like a (London) boys, reported to the real friend she said she would stick headmaster for smoking out of to me. and try to make a man of school and offered the choice be- tween a publie flogging and ex- pulsion, refused to take a forring
and were expelled.
me.
"She is the only one in this world who cares for me and she is about to become a mother. That has made me see the light.
"Please help me to came out for Christmas. I would like to be out just after our baby arrives."
were asked by the newspaper Paris-Soir to write what they knew about King George and Queen Elizabeth to mark their
A list of 21 previous convictions three-day visit to France,
was proved against him and the These were their answers to some presiding magistrate said he had never seen such a terrible record What is the King's name? of the questions:-
in 30 years' experience. Answers included 'Stanislas. George L., Philippe' VI., Galzot III. What is the Queen's name?
Some said Marle Antoinette, others Charlotte Isabel and Marie. How many children have they
Most were correct here with two.
Several said "Six boys and six girls." and one child wrote. "Two girls Alizabete and Marguerite." what, Is England?...
非
try where there are many ships." Six specimen answers: "A coun-
A town very important for the French.""" An island in the Arctic seas of the north." "A big British island," "A Pacific island," and
An island formed like a boot." Why are the British our friends?
Most replied "Because they fought with us in 1914." One boy 7 deaths: measles, 7 said: "The English were once our midnight Saturday is as follows:--cases. 3 deaths; cerebrospinal biggest enemies. Now. If we were cases, 33 deaths: meningitis. 5 cases, 5 deaths: weak they would not be interested small-pox, 2 cases, 2 deaths dysentery, 31 cases, 3 deaths: and in us. But they feel that we are diphtheria, I death; enteric fever 85 deaths of tuberculosis.
The number of ebolera cases so far reported in 221.
younger.
WEEKLY FIGURES The returns for the week ended 12
Cholera 50
Cases
strong."
They sentenced Chatterley to two months only on each charge, to run concurrently with his pre- sent sentence which will expire on December 10:
HOTEL MEETING
Chatterley and his wife frst met when they were working together on the staff of a Westclin-on-Sea hotel..
'.
They were to have sat for their Oxford School Certificate examina- tion a week later.
The boys are. Roy Lloyd, aged sixteen, of Raven Oak, Hermitage- road, Parkstone, and Ronald Rigler. aged seventeen, of West-street. Posie....
Roy told a representative that he was walking along the street. smoking, and was seen by an assistant master.
"I was not wearing the school cap or tle at the time," he said.
Ronald Rigler told the Sunday Express representaive that he was smoking a pipe in the presence of his father.
Mr. Rigler described the whole thing as nonsense.
"He was very persistent," Mrs. The headmaster said; "I gave went out anywhere I would find thrashing and making a promise to Chatterley told a reporter. "If I the boys, the choice of taking a him waiting for me; if I went to a behave themselves in future, and cinema he would be waiting out-rave them a
whole morning to side.
think it over. "In the end I married him. I "When they told me they had am afraid it would have made a decided to leave I pointed out the difference if I had known about consequences,” his conviction, but I am prepared to give him another chance.”
Asked if she was still in love with him, she said, "I am afraid lave dies after a thing like this, but maybe it will be revived for Hike him very much Indeed.”
Mr. L'T. Yuan has accepted the invitation of the Shanghai Muni- cipal Council to all the vacancy on! the Council caused by the resigna- tion of Mr..W. Gockson.
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