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DAN CUPID VERY BUSY IN COLONY
11 CEREMONIES TO-DAY
Dan Cupid has been very busy in Hongkong in recent months. Mesars. T. S: Whyte-Smith and and T. J. Gould, Registrar .......... and Deputy Registrar" of Marriages. respectively, have had very little free time attending to the large number of marriages · and "appli- cations for licences at the Reris- try, Supreme Court
to-
Another heavy day is in store for them, for they are due to officiate at no less than eleven
Among ceremonies to-day."
the couples who will be married day are Mr. Peter Nicolas Barten and Miss Doris May Hunt, Tormer Colony swimming champion, and Mr. Francis Chan, of the Bank of China, and Mias Janet Tong.
Two marriages took place at the Registry yesterday, the parties being Mr. Ngai Tim-fung, of No.
170 Wellington Street, and Miss
Tse Kwal-fong; of No, 133 Wing
Not much of cheerfulness is depicted on the faces of this group snapped at the First Extra Race meeting held at the Valley. (Photo by Leica),
COUNTESS BARRED AS A.R.P. WARDEN
Countess Ingegard' Ahlefeldt, the Danish artist and felend of Queen Mary, was Informed recently by Chelsea A.R.P. headquarters that she must crase" officially to be an air-raid warden.
The reason for this action 13 Lok Street, and Mr. Chan Blu-the Home Office · order which fong, of No. 24 Shan Kwong Road,states that all air-raid wardens Happy Valley, and Miss Chu Tak-must be British
CHINESE WOMAN IN GLASGOW Glasgow had
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ning, of No. 22 Pikem Street, Countess Ahlefeldt, daughter ∙Kowloon. Mr. Gould omiclated at of Count Preben Ahlefeldt-Laur-Chinese woman visitor recently-
both ceremonies
ANNOUNCEMENTS Among those for whom wedding bells will soon ring are:-
Lout Nigel Hadley Miller D'Oyly, of the 2nd Battalion. Royal Scots, and Miss Dolores Constance
vig. former Danish Minister in London, ves in a Dar near Chelsea Hospital, and 15 now holding the sixth exhibition of her paintings In this country at the Walker Galleries. Bond- street, w
لله
UMBRELLA MEN
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S 40-YEAR-OLD GAMP
It has just been revealed, that the famous Chamberlain umbrella, which is credited with such super- lative diplomacy at Munich and elsewhere, is actually forty years fold, and has been re-covered four times. for which reasons its distinguished owner, like MIS. Micawber, will never desert it
Is this (to use the correct for- } mula) a record? The answer is in the negative. Mr. Chamberlain's unbrella may be more famous thán inost but it is not the oldest." A certain Mr. Fred S. Goodwin, of New York, as back as 1929, had used his umbrella for fifty-three years. "but he app ́ars to have neglected to
give it "associational" value
Not so another American-Mr. Ernest R. Ackerman, of New Jersey. His umbrella, in the same year,
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Oyster Cocktail
Potato Salad Stuxed, Peppers ' Stewed Corn Cabbage au Gratin
Cheese Sticks .. Assorted Fresh Fruits Tes
DINNER
'Clear Onion Soup Celery & Apple Salad
Baked Fish
Egg
Bauce
Creamed Musaroums, Buttered String Beans Carrot. Souffle
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was only forty-nine years old: but NO MORE
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he could proudly point out that it had survived 720,000 miles of globe- trotting, crossed the Atlantic hundred times, been in a blizzard and Japanese earthquake, and graded the clutches of train robbers In Arizona in 1885,
distinguished
Mr. Ackerman in 1929 stated that Miss PS-Tseng, the first Chinese he would bestow it on the Plain- woman to graduate B.Sc. from fleld (New Jersey) "Public Library, London University and a descen- where a brass plate doubtless now dant of the philosopher Tseng, an records its loyal and immediate disciple of Confucius.
faithful
TIARAS
FOR HIRE
British peeresses attending State functions the State opening of Parliament, the Royal Courts and so on-from now on will have to buy thair own tiaras, T
For the hiring of taras-an old custom among the British nobility, has been stopped by British jewlery If the Decresses want to wear a
meetings 173 various Scottish Umbrellas are not the only tiara, they must buy then, say the towns-a special service for young articles of daily use treasured for jewelers.
career.
She said "I do not "blame Veronica Angeles Gregory, of No. authorities for insisting that 460 The Peak:
i air-raid wardens should be Mr. Alols Fenkl, mechanical en- gineer, of No. 55 Cumberland Road,tish, but although I am a
the
She has come to Scotland to take
series part in a
COATS AND COLLAR-STUDS
of missionary
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Bri- Dane
T have lived in Britain since I was a baby.
Kowloon Tong, and Miss Geor- gievna Cavellenko, of the same. address;
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people was held in Renfield Street long years. A well-known Regent| At State functions there are Church, Glasgow, and meeting Street firm has in its possession never enough private laras to go in St Andrew's Hall.
a letter from the brother of a peer-pund, Some have been lost or Miss Tseng was welcomed to which reads: "Please re-line, clean, mislaid. Impoverished members of Mr. Luiz Antonic Vieira Ribeiro, thing to help this country in the Glasgow by the Rev. Dr. George Fre-waterproof, and press this old the noodiity may have soid them. MacLeod, and other missionaries coat for me. Also put new velvet Others are thought not good with her were the Rev. C. G. collar and cut off the turned back enough, while many new.peeresies Baeta, of the Gold Coast; Professor ends of sleeves, leaving plain wrist have neglected to get theirs.
of the Standard-Vacuum Oil Com- pany, Manila, and Miss Isilda
"And I did want to do some-
event of emergency.”
An A.R.P. officer at Chelsea Town Hall said: "We ore ex-
feldt for the wonderful work she has done in Chelsea."
Maria Hyndman Rosario, of No.tremely grateful to Countess Ahle-C. P. Matthew, India; the Rev. M. ends. I believe I got this coat from
12 Salisbury Road, Kowloon;
Mr. Yuen Sal-cheong, of the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, änd Miss Ng Stu-chan, of No. 4 Min Fat Street, Happy Valles:
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER ASCOT HOST
8. Murao, Japan: the Rev. D. T. Niles. Ceylon; and the Rev. Sheffield Chey, China,
Miss Tseng's great-grandfather, Marquis Tseng Kuo Fan. fought with Gen. Gordon and quelled the Talping Rebellion in 1860, while
Mr. Raymond Hslen Tseng. chemist, of King's Buildings, and Miss Lily Lee, of No. 45 Bute. The King has decided that the her great-uncle Was the first Bireet, Arst Door:
Duke and Duchess of Gloucester Chinese Minister accredited
Mr. Li Po-hing, clerk of Mearts. (shall act as host and hostess in the Court of St James. Shewan. Tomes and Co., and Miss the Royal Enclosure at Ascot this Wong Mee-chun, of No. 123 Hen-, summer, but there will be no royal messy Read, second "ficor
procession from Windsor Castle to
Mr, Ko Man-tin. of No. 191, the course Woosung Street, and Miss Ho Sul- ying, of the some address
Their Majesties will be Canada during Ascot week.
NEWSETTES
Captain and Mrs. J. N. Choud- huri arrived from Calcutta yester day afternoon in the s. a. Tilawa.
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Mr. A. Tajiri the Japanese,
Consul-General, returns to Hong-
kong from Tokyo to-day.
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Mr. A. St. G. Walton, of King's College. will receive congratula- tions to-day on the occasion his 31st birth.
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Round About
· FRAMED LETTEE
you abou* 1894 or 1895, and nave So when peeresses now go to the worn it ever since."
Jewelers who formerly were willing And here is a letter from a curto do the lending, the jewelers respondence of about a store of point to a framed letter hanging years back on the subject of aged in their shops from the Associa
collar-studs:
MASCOT.-I picked up a metal stud as a lad some 35 years ago and I am still wearing it. I was knocked down by a motor years later, and my first concern was what had happened to my stud. It was quite safe, and I was easter of minc.-A, C.B.
A tramway car came to a stop
If the writer had only had the at the intersection of a busy downtown street. Standing wait-fuck to become a Prime Minister,! congs would have been written
tion of Retail Jewelers: The letter announces that the lending of. taras and other ornaments has bee discontinued.
"The rule was made," a repre- sentative of a Bond street firm of jewelers said recently, "for two rea-
First, the lending of tiaras. sons. was not good business. The bor- instead of borrow une. rowers could often abord tô buy
"Secondly, a hired tiara, on being returned to the shop, was able
ing for the vehicle was a young about that old stud and carica- to be recognized by a potential pur- woman holding a toddling infant
by the hand. In the other she turista would have worried them- carried a large grass bag filled selves into surrealism" in their
efforts to at it into a political.cat with various articles.
The woman put the bag down" and lifted the young child to the car platform. Then picking up her bag she was about to board the car when it commenced to move across and down the street:
With a shrin cry the mother of
toon.
SAILORS KNOTS
A ship's speed through the water
chaser as having been worn by some other peeress on a State oc- casion.
***This must be a second-hand [one," she would say." 'I saw Lady So-and-So wearing it a few days ago! So the rule against further lending was made in our own defeace.” As a result peercases without
Mr. K. Schindler, of the firm of the child waved her hand and is determined mathematically by tiaras who had been lucky enough W. Koresks, Shanghai passed started running down the tram- her engine's revolutions. But there to receive seats for the recent state are still seafaring men who recall opening of Parliament were forced through the Colony yesterday in way
how they once measured speed by to inquire among their friends or throwing overboard a knotted rope relatives for
he loan of spare
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at one end of which was a weighted tiaras
buoy.
tracica after the swiftly Mr. H. J. Cruttwell. o: the the Empress of Asia on his way moving_tramcar.
The child's howls finally succeed. Colonial Secretary's Omice, cele- from Manila to the northern port.
ed in halting the car, and the brates his 30th birthday to-daz..
woman reached her youngster His Excellency M. Henri Cosme
The knots in the rope were evenly PREMIER TO ADDRESS and Mrs. J. Ralston and French. Ambassador to China who but in the excitement she did not | Miss F. Ralston returned to Hong-arrived in Hongkong on Monday notice that the bottom of her bag spaced, and as each knot passed!
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few through their hands they calculat- CONSERVATIVE UNION kong yesterday in the a. s. Empress from Haiphong. will leave articles outlined the path of her ed, aided by an hour clase, the LONDON, Mar. 28 (Reuter)-Mr.
Shanghai to-day. He is atcom footsteps to the car.
speed at which their ship was Neville Chamberlain, as Leader of panted by Col. Xvon. Militṣry
moving.
the Party, will attend a meeting Major and Mrs. H. E. Potter To-day thesę, knotted ropes of the Central Council of the Na- passed through Shanghal" yester- are obsolete, but the term knot, tional Union of the Conservative day in the Empress of Aala en as a measure of speed, is very Unions Associations at Westmin
of Asia from Manila
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Dr. and Mra, R. T. Legge were, Attache. through passengers in the B... Empress of Asia from Manila to Kobe.
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Princess Allee, sister of the
King, and her husband, the Earl of Athlone, will leave England on Mr. and Mrs. Kneebone and Mr. April 11 to pay a visit to Iran. Nouman left in Imperial Airways The voyage" is expected to take "plane, yesterday morning for about one month. (T.D.) Hanoi and Bangkok, respectively.
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Mr.L.T. Chess, noted banker and
Mr. O. 1. Theller, of the Jardine Y.M.C.A. worker, has been appoint- Engingerng Corporation, passeded by the Executive Yin to re- through the Colony yesterday on present China at the forthcoming his way to Shanghai from Manila, second conference of the Interna- tional Labour Office's Permanent To-day is a Chinese national Committee at Genera next month. holiday, it, being the anniversary In addition to attending the con- of the death of the 72 Martyrs at ference, Mr. Chen has also been Wong. Far Kong, Canton, in 1911. asked by Dr. H. H. Kung, to conduc
Europe.
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Mrs. W. B. Parsons and Miss J. Parsons were through passengers
a publicity tour
Mr. LT. Chen, Secretary to Dr.
in the Empress of Asta which arrived H. H. Kung, Minister of Finance from Manila. They are on their and President of the Executive way to Shanghal.
Yuan, has arrived here from Chungking, en route to Geneva to
Gen. Liu Chih former Chair attend the Labour Conference, as man of the Honan Provincial China's official delegate. Mr. Government, was sworn in as Chen, who was formerly general Gerrison-Commander for Chung-secretary of the Chinese X, M. C. A. King at a ceremony at the National in Shanghai and later manager Government Headquarters on Mar. of the Kincheng Banking Corpora 27 Mr. Lin Ben, Chairman of the tion, will leave for Europe to National Government, officiated. morrow.
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route from the Philippines to much in the currency of sallor ster on Mar 30 and will address the Shanghai
speech.
delegates.
GROUP PICTURE TAKEN AT THE TEA PARTY in honour of
dentin Boosevelt, rin
of the Tate Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, given by the Cant Xiiversity Students. Association Mar. 24. Included in the group, besides the guest of honour,
Tal, Prof, B. C
Mr. Cemeornic," Mr.› Jackson Tong (chalriman), Frof. Wong, Mr. Sam Hỏ, Wallace Wong ~and~Mr. Ba- Kit-wah. - (Photo by Mayixir)
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