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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1939.
WOMEN'S PAGE ENSIGN
'GROOM FROM HONGKONG.-Mr. Matthew
Watson, Cus- toms officer. Hongkong; and Miss Katherine E. Mackay, Inver- ness, with their attendants after they were married in Columbia Hotel, Inverness.
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REGISTRY
The marriage took place yester- the Registry, Supreme Court, of Mr. Chow unok-man, | merchant, of No. 60... Bonham Strand East, and Miss Tang Yiu- tun, of No. 277. Man street, Bal- wanko. Mr. T. J. Gould, Deputy Registrar of Marriages, officiated, and the witnesses were Messrs. Tang Tsok-san and Wong Chựên- Cheung.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The following forthcoming mar- riages are announced:-Mr. Baard Berenhard Waage, engineer, of No. 23. West Terrace, Kowloon Docks. and Miss Maria Laura Roge, sta÷ 'dent, of D'Almeida 88, Macao;
Mr. Chu Chow-yow, student, of No. 70. Hennessy Road, third floor, and Miss Serie So Lau, student, of No. 3. Tin Hau Temple Road. second floor.
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Queen Victoria Feared "Curse" On Koh-i-noor
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The Koh-I-Noor diamond has been returned to the Tower of London, and is now en view in the Jawel House.
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The Koh-I-Noor was removed "from the Tower by detec tives shortly before the King and Queen pald their State visit to France last year. With another bigger, though less valuable and less celebrated, diamond, the Lesser Stir of Africa, it was taken to France in a' steel jewel-case to be worn by the Queen in a collection of Jewels worth £1,500,000. The Queen also wore
It in The Koh-I-Noor originally Canada.
welghed 300 carats in its rough. Now that the Royal Family form. It has been re-cut again have gone to Balmoral on holland again, until now weighs day, the Koh-I-Noor has been 106 carats. It is said to be sent back to the Tower.
worth £120,000. It came into the Respect for an ancient legend hands of the East India Company about the Koh-I-Noor--the name as part of payment for damages means "Mountain of Light-after the war with the Sikhs.
has made it a personal possession of the Queen, and not a jewel of the British Crown Regalia.
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For centuries tales of hor- ror, bloodshed and loss have
diamond. surrounded the curse was said to be upon it. The legend, told by 1.12 Indian fakir, has it that, should the Jewel be worn by a male ruler of the British Empire. Britain. would lose India, even
other male owners in the past lost their thrones.
WORTH £120,000
When the "Mountain of Light" | was presented to Queen Victoria In 1856 by the East India Com- pany she was told of the legend. and accordingly in her will she left the stone, hot to her suc- cessor, King Edward VIL.. Buc to Queen Alexandra as a Royal heirloom, to descend to female. entail from one reigning mon- arhch's consort to the next,
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Under the An application for the confisca-
auspices of tion of 32 rounds of ammunitions Philippines Overseas Chipest found on the roof of No. 7, Jubilee Federation for Resistance Against Street, on August 27, was granted Japanese Aggression, subscriptions by Mr. R. Edwards, at the Central are now being raised for the pur- Court yesterday.
chase of scrap iron in the Philip THE EVENT OF THE SEASON
pines in competition with the
A notification by the Shanghai Japanese. The scrap fron will be Power Company states that be- contributed to the Chinese Clov: ginning with consumption periods ernment for military purposes. ending in September the sur- charge of electricity will be in- creased to 120 per cent.
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The British Residents' Associa tion of China, in Shanghai, has suggested to the Council the
Japanese troops searched the formation of a Rental Adjustment Hungjae Golf Club in Western Committee to which disputed
| Shanghai and arrested over forty cases might be referred for ärbi- employees on August 26, according tration, each side having pre- to a Shanghal report. The cause viously agreed to abide by the
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of the Japanese action is yet un-findings of the committee. It was known The Hungjao Golf Club suggested that the Shanghal
Is organised by foreign circles Municipal Council should sponsor
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such a scheme.
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the local office of Swan Culbertson Mr. A. L. Crompton, Head Jailer and Fritz was suddenly overcome of the Ward Road Jail, died at the yesterday by an attack of appen Shanghai General Hospital dicitis and was immediately takeri
after having been ad- Aug. 23 to the French Hospital where an mitted to the hospital suffering operation was performed. Mias from Jaundice. Mr. A. L. Cromp- Major's condition has improved.
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ton, who was only '43 years of age. bas been with the Shanghal The Tung Chi University has made a request to the China In-Municipal police for nearly 20 stitute in Frankfort, Germany, to years and was one of the recruits provide several professorships and to come in the second draft after
the world-war.
contribute books in aid of its establishment of the Colleges of
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Arts and Law. The University Wedding bells,rang gally in has now only the Colleges of En-Shanghai on Aug. 23 for the mar gineering" and Medicine.
riage Holy Trinity Cathedral jof Mr. Richard Peter Montague: Estate in Hongkong valued at M. Mann, of Shanghal, and Miss. Mann, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. $2,000 was left by the late. Lacy Dorothy Mary Clay, elder daughter Constantine, who died at Consden, of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Clay, of Newquay, Cornwall, England, on Tientsin. Dean Trivett officiated, March 22. An application made the Cathedral being beautifully by Mr. B. A Wadeson, solicitor decorated for the occasion with and lawful attorney, for sealing lotus lies, gladioli and verie-
certifled copy of the probate of the gated foliage. will and codicil of the deceased has been granted.
Two minor riots occurred in The Air Raid Precautions Omeer Shanghai French Concessión rice announces that to-morrow, the shops on Aug. 23 and nine rice Byren at the Hongkong and How shops in the Chengta Road dis- loon Wharf and Godown Company,trict had to clone up because they Limited, will be actuated at 12 had completely sold out their noon for purpose of trial, and not stocks as this city was facing an at the Kowloon Docks as previous-unprecedented shortage In this
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