THE
HONGKONG TELEGRÁPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1936,
BISHOP ADVISES DIVORCE REFORM
£900,000 WILL OF A
VISCOUNTESS All-Millionaire Family Descended From A Poor Scottish Boy THE £923,525 estate of Viscountess St. Cyres, whose will was published recently, reveals another vast fortune of the "Lucky Morrisons," one of Britain's richest and least known families.
Lady St. Cyres was Dorothy Morrison, daughter of the Inte Alfred Morrison of Fonthill,
If her fortune had touched the million mark she would have been the eighth Morrison to dio a millionaire in recent years.
She inherited £200,000 in 1022 from her uncle, Colonel Walter Morrison, n shy old man! who lived quietly in Yorkshire and left £2,000,- 000.
In the last quarter-century the Morrison family has paid about £6,000,000 to the Govern- ment in death duties.
Yet this family of millions and modesty goes no further back than Walter Morrison's father, James Morrison, a poor Scols hoy who came to London to seek his fortune.
SAVED HARD
He went to work in a humble post in a drapery warehouse. He worked hard, saved: hard, and set up in business for himself as the Fore-street Warehouse Company.. His business prospered, he invested this money shrewdly, and died worth 54,000,000.
To his son Charles he left £2,000,000. Charles
did not rest.
Ila was the most mysterious
Bgure in the City in his day.
Ile ilveil a frugal life. He dress-
ed shabbily, did not smoke, drank
only a te tight claret
never
entertained, never attended publie functions of any kind,
fcft
roaring
Wan A
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Nuccess ABOVE. —Pillow fight proved a real knockout. LEFT- Water maration finds one of the
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AIR
IN
ALLIANCE PACIFIC
PLEA BY AN AUSTRALIAN
"SHOOTING A MAN IS DAMNABLE”
But Church
:
Must Have Own Discipline!
THE need for changes in the
divorce laws and a statement of the Church's attitude' to divorce were voiced by Dr. Cyril Garbett, Bishop of Winchester, recently.
He was addressing the Winchester Dloccaun Conference.
Dr. Garbett said that the Church could not remain indifferent to the way in which in some quarters mar- ridge was spoken of as a temporary union, which should be cosily dis- Bolved, or to the bitter scorn and contempt which some novelists poured upon it as an institution.
There is no reason to think," he said, "that in our country,' concep- tion of marriage as a life-long union is seriously threatened.
"We must not be unduly alarmed by the unsavoury and intimato' de- this which some popular writers give of the sex life of themselves and their friends.
"Unfortunate"
"Their experiences have been un- they fortunate, though no doubt obtain some compensation by work ing them into novels, which have become best-sellers, but it must not
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"It will be a mistake ff, as Church- men, we offer a rigid opposition to any and every proposed change in these laws, We must insist on the right of the Church to exercise its the Church on this should be free. discipline over its own members:
San Francisco, Nov, 20. An aerial alliance between the United States, England and Australia for the defence of the Pacific is being advocated by Capt. C. E. Toovey of the Bank of Aus- tralia and former chief technical officer of the Handley-Page firm of British airplane manufacturers.
Dr. Gurbett said that in adminis- his on Toovey is now
way
tering the Church's discipline he home to Australia after a year found it impossible to class together ---Says War Minister of consultation in England with indiscriminately the mullity and in- BL66
"IT is not a beautiful thing or a desirable thing-indeed, officials of the British Warnocent parties of a divorce. "Broadly speaking, he He is a veteran of the they could accept as innocent those [Office. it is a hateful thing and a damnable thing to think Egyptian, Gallipoli and Western whom the courts regarded sis such."
the we should have to shoot our fellow-men, but, as it has to Front campaign in
world be done, it had better be done well," said Mr. Duff Cooper, war. Secretary for War, speaking at the dinner of the English Twenty Club in London.
When he died he £11,000,000. His will made four more Morrisons millionaires. They
were:-
His brother
Cyrex' uncle,
Walter---Lady
IIls Aster Ellen-whe Ieft £2,350,000.
His nephew Hugh-who repre-
sented Salisbury in the loase of Commons and died in 1931 leaving
£1,750,000.
His nephew Archibald-Mojor J. A. Morrison, who died two years
ago.
Lily St. Cyres married the only son of the second Earl of Iddesleigh and cousin of the present earl. died inst month.
She
His remarks on killing followed a reference to the way in which English people had developed the handling of a rifle to defend their country into a national sport.
"In this country," he continued, "there is a charming little, animul feullest the fox, which does some good and a great deal of harm. He has be kept down, and in order to keep him down, the English people have developed the great art of fox-hunting.
"Abolish t
She left her estate at Walhump-to lon, Lymington, Hunts, and the rest due of her properly to Charles Andrew Morrison, second son of her nephew,
PEER'S GARDEN .For the education of the present Viscount SL. Cyres, aged four, she left £5,000 to his father, the Earl of Iddlenielsth.
The
single bequest is Michuel £25,000 to her cousin,
largest
Robert Wright-or, it deceased. £5,000 to his wife Esther.
Other bequests include:-
£7,000 to Leslie
estate manager.
Hamilton Watts,
£2,000 to her butler, Ernest Cronkes, and his wife, Rose, "my dear
exterminated."
to-morrow, and the fox would be shot and finally
Mr. Du Cooper said that in fox-hunting they had exemplified the human characteristic of being able to do unpleasant things in such a way that they became an art.
Priest Says He Is Girl-
housekeeper: Rev. Pat McCormick A
"in friendship."
£1,000 to Lady Victoria Herbert. £500 to Lord Herder, "in the hope that he will use it for the gurden he loves so well," £1,000 to her
head gardener,
William Honesa. £500 to the Rev.
Martindale.
Wants
Operation
Belgrade, Nov. 10.
"World peace depends on peace in the Pacifle," says Toovey, "and that depends in turn on the United States. Australia and England speeding up their air defence and aerial commu- ntrations.
"It is absolutely necessary that air communications be established be- tween the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The future of the Pacife is in the hands of these! nations and it is time they get together for further defence of the Pacifle.
thought
Arabs Stole A Briton's
A
Rifle-But
IT CAME BACK
Jerusalem, Nov, 20. RIFLE to an Arab is as a window-
ful of gems to 1 Bmash-and-
"War in Europe is imminent at any time. America, Great Britain grabber-irresistible. and Australla should combine in ani
An Arab mob in a
But he is learning to resist templa- English speaking Union to preserve tion. And the British Army is his
Parife the peace of the
and Jet tutor. Europe take care of itself."
village war Jerusalem overpowered British Toovey expressed great satisfac-soldier and stole his rifle. tion at the progress being made in the building up of Pacific air lines. the Pan American In addition to nirways. from San Francisco to Canton, vlu Honolulu. Midway, Wake, Guam and the Philippines, and the
Military detachments arrived es. the village.
----SENSATION has been caused in Bulgaria-by--a-cs of the Imperial highways and
young priest of the Orthodox Church who declares that a mistake was made over his sex when a child and that he is a girl.
He walked into the clinic of the Medical Faculty at Sofia and demanded a doctor's authority for his change of sex,
They warned the natives if the rifle was not returned at noon next day their houses would be blown up.
At 11.45 next day a 15-year-old
the Dutch air lines that connect Arab buy appeared at the military Australia with London and all Euro-
pean centres, Toovey stated that atļ least two other fundamental Jines are now under consideration.
One of these is an English line
camp.
He handed over- rifle.
An operation is to be performed on the priest, whose from Honolulu to Brisbane by way Would Regard His
Father C.C.esignation from the Church will be demanded.
£500 and a cottage to Alfred E. Wood, her husband's nurse, "for
his davoted care."
About £5,000 to doctors and nurses
who altended her.
£5,000 for British Legion collages ut Walhampton, to be occupied by ex- service men.
A clause in the will "forgives all loans and debts due from personal friends and relations."
TRIPLETS-NOW QUADS
Kovyo, Nov. 20.
Quadruplets have just been born to Frau, Wakilauskiene, of Mariampole, Lithuania, who was already the mother of triplets.
The quads-two boys and two girls--are all doing well. So i the mother.
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married again, it so disposed, and I "These Pacific Airways," declared wish her every prosperity and hup- Toovey, "constitute the first step in piness." the building of an adequate aérial defence in the Pacific."
Television Heard at
Johannesburg
ALEXANDRA · PALACE PROGRAMMES
Johannesburg, Nov. 15.
A local amateur, Mr. Please, Is making radio history, regularly picking up the London television transmissions from the Alexandra Paloce.
Since October 13 he has been hear- ing London's television glris ап- nouncing and listening to program- mes, including the tour of Southamp- tọn docks and other items.
The vision, sounds were also picked up, but as Mr. Plenss has not television rečolvèr he has not utilised them.
A
-Local radio engineers are amazed ns these seven-motre transmissions are designed only for reception with- in a 40-mile radius of London after which they were belleved to vanish into space-or to earth,
Mr. Pleass, who was an early radio pioneer, is getting London tele- vision with strength and consistency equailing normal Daventry trans- missions. He also heard a Californ lan transmission on Ove metres, but is uncertain whether It may be the harmonics of a higher wave length. He is awaiting postal confirmation.-
So reads the will of Mr. R. G. Francis, of Penarth, Glamorgan, who left the whole of his £1,808 estate to his wife absolutely, "in recognition of her unfailing devolion and loyally during our married life."
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