ADDERLIZEAR IS ANN ELIZA IN NEW GAME OF "SPOTTING THE S”
A new game, "Spotting the S"-a kirid of solitaire with a chart instead of enrds—is being played in some hundred English villages.
The players are members of the Society of Genealogists, who have volunteered to copy old parish registers, and the chart has been issued by the Society to help them decipher the ancient writing.
"S" presents the greatest problem. There were 17 ways of writing it: 7 for the capital, 4 for the small letter, and 6 for the letter in combination with others,
SPELLING PUZZLE
Spelling is an incidental puzzle. The copyists have to look carefully to recognise "Philise" (Phyllis), "Averlina" (Evelyn), and "Adderlizear" (Ann Eliza).
"Members have copied between 60 and 70 registers during the past year," Mr. K. Blomilcld, secretary of the Society, said.
"We already possess coples of over 3,000 of the 11,000 re- gistors up to 1887, and about 2,000 have been made privately,
"At a rough guess some 6,000 registers are still untouched so far as copying goes. Taking the whole, over 125,000,000 entries will be involved before the work is finished-a vast but important place of work."
ALL IN DANGER
Every one of these precious documents which has not been copied is in danger from fire or other catastrophe, she pointed out, and the information it contains would perish with it.
The Society's aim is to make two or three copies of each, placing them in different repositories so as to safeguard their contents. "To prevent duplication of work, we should be most grateful to anyone who sends us information of copies which have already been made," said Mrs. Blomfield.
ZOO'S PINK
SNAKE
WANTS TO BE ALONE
The London Zoo's favourite snake, greatest pet of the reptile house, has gone into retirement, temporarily, it is hoped.
Advancing years have left him out of sorts at the moment.
Porter
Old
"Wore
School
Tie
He is known as the "pink snake" because of the beautiful colouring near his tail.
In reality he is an ordinary Brazi- Han boa constrictor, Bft. long with beautiful markings, and a friendly
lisposition,
ROUND NECKS
During the ten years he has lived in the Zou he has been handled by members of the Royal Family, and has been hung round the necks of London school children.
Not long ago he became the parent family of seven young of a ne
boar
The stuff of the reptile house hope that he will take a turn for the Alexander better and regain some of his old but nge undoubtedly of the having its effect.
Major Victor Beaufort, a resident Wickham Court Hotel, West
vigour,
is
every
At the present moment he is not Wickham, Kent, recently wore being handled by visitors, but if the Oki Wellingtonian tie for after the shedding of his skin has about two hours. The next completed-he takes a turn for the
hold court better he will morning he missed it.
Saturday and Sunday when the re- went to gulur visitors come to see him. another tic, He put on
He is the most photographed snake East Croydon station to see a friend off, and bumped into two other Ok the Zoo has ever had. Wellingtonlans.
Then, when walking down the street, he saw someone else with the old school tie.
the
At Bromley Pollee Court later the major gave evidence against night porter at the
hotel, Arthur Fletcher, aged 30, who was charged! with stealing from him a tie valued
at Os. 6d.
"WEARING MY TIE"
3 "Mothers“
Claim Girl of 15
Three "mothers" are now claiming Elleen Lee, the 15-year-old Tedding-
"I saw him approaching me and ton (Middlesex) girl who disappear- thought I knew him," said Majored in June and has been found at Beaufort, "and then I realised that was the hotel night porter, and that he was wearing my 1le."
tle.
.
Det.-Sergt. Trebess produced the Ite said that Fletcher, when accused, sald: "When the major saw me I was wearing a white and blue striped tie." But Fletcher could not produce such a tle.
The sergeant said that the matter would have to be further invest!- gated, and Fletcher was remanded.
£40,000 WEDDING GIFT TO MARGOT GRAHAME
Southampton.
Recently Mrs. Lilian Maude Lec.
nt Church Lane, Teddington, Eileen's foster-mother for 13 years, received a letter from Mr. George Wilson, of Southampton, asking it he and his wife could adopt the girl.
His request was supported by a letter from Eileen herself, saying she
Mrs. Wilson. Was now living happily with Mr. and
PARENTS FOUND
But Elleen's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hurry Fenton, of Sandy Lane, Homplon Wick, near Kingston,
identifying her through a newspaper photograph utter losing her for seven wrote to her through
Southampton police asking her
{ return to them.
to
Mr. Fenton said: "As she has left Mrs. Lee we feel it our duty to have Francis Lister, actor ex-hus- her back."
Mrs. Lee told the News Chronicle: band of beautiful
Margot must see her. I am sure she does Grahame, 26-years-old, British not want to leave me. It would
nu
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1938.
LOFS
John C. Metcalfe, Investigator for the special House committee Investigating un-American activities, garbed in what he sald was the uniform of the German-American Bund, as he testified before the commitee in Washington. He asserted the Bund was entirely do- minated by the Nazi government. He acquired the uniform as a Bund member last year.
Same
Two
Girl In
"Notices To Marry
Two applications for wedding licences recently made at Kensington Register Office, W., bear the name of the same girl as the bride-to-be-Miss Mar- garet Eleanor McNair Scott, twenty-five-year-old daughter of Dr. R. F. McNair Scott, of Queen's Gate- gardens, Kensington.
Mr. Edmund Ronald Lench,
EMPIRE NEWS
CANADIAN · PLANS FOR
ROYAL VISIT
TORONTO,
Detailed plans are now being made for the visit of the King and Queen
to Canada next summer.
It
wis
announced that if their Majesties visit Toronto they will not stoy either at Chorley Park, the former official residence of the L.- Governors of Toronto, or at "Casa Loma, the vast mansion overlooking Toronto Bay, built by the Canadian financier, Sir Henry Pellatt, at a cost of £340,000. The entire Vice-regal of the Royal York Hotel will be placed at
at their disposal.
Почн
It 1 possible that, In view of the Royal visit, Parliament may reassem- ble earlier than usual. The object of such a step would be the conclusion of the session before their Majesiles" arrival in June og July..
ned next
In official circles, however, the
of Parliament being month is described "very unlikely." The possibility is not being excluded, but a decision In the matter resis entirely with the Prime
Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King. Lady Tweedsmuir, LL.D.—The Uni- versity of Toronto will confer the honorary
degree
of Doctor of Laws on Lady Tweedsmuir, wife of the Governnor-General. This is the first Ume that the wife of a Canadian Governnor-General has been 50 honoured.
NEW ZEALAND
GENERAL ELECTION
PROSPECTS
AUCKLAND,
With polling in the General Election taking place an optimistic tone has developed on the Stock Exchanges. This undoubtedly indicates that in financial circles It Is considered that the Socialist Government of Mr. Savage will either be defeated saffer very heavy losses. SOUTH AFRICA
UNION'S EXPANDING
POPULATION
CAPETOWN.
or
A report just issued by the Director of Census and Statistics states that the total population of the Union on The May 5, 1930, was 9,500,808. European population was 2,003,857.
These figures show an increase of 2.19 per cent. In the total and 1.85 per cent, in the European population as compared with the figures of the census of 1931,
The report states that while it may
that the- appear
non-European population is increasing faster than the fact
twenty-seven-year-old anthropo- GERMAN HONOUR FOR the European population, that the
logist, of Kingsley-way, Finch- ley, N.W., applied for a licence to marry Miss Scott.
A few hours later Miss Scott went to the same register office; and applled for a licence to marry Mr. Patrick Wyndham Murray- Threlpland, a landowner, who lives New House, Llanishen, Cardiff. He is thirty-four, and the son of Colonel Murray-Threipland, of Dry-at burgh Abbey, St. Boswells.
POET LAUREATE
"Shakespeare Prize"
Mr. Jahn
Hamburg.
Masefield, the Poet
must not be overlooked enumeration of natives is more com- plete at each census,
tpure
Nationalist case, the Rev. C. W.
2,358 votes, this
The 7,580,041 non-Europeans enu- merated in 1936 consisted of 6,590,089 natives, 210,691 Asiatics, and 769,001 coloured persons.
Opposition Gain-In the first byrm Laureate, is to receive the Shakes-election since the General Election in Transvaal the peare prize, awarded annually at May, at Marico, Homburg University,
The announcement will be made M. Du Toit,
the foundation anniversary being a majority of 49 over the ceremony at the University.
United Party candidate. "My daughter is going to marry
The prize was found anonymously waa formerly held by the Government Mr. Murray-Threipland" Dr. Scott last year by a Hamburg merchant for member, Gen. Piennar. said. "That is all I know.
presentation to Englishmen - "Mr. Leach is a friend of hers. I tinguished in literature, art or music. INDIA suppose there is nothing to prevent The first recipient was the composer, any one making such an application Dr. Vaughan Willams. if they wish."
The University's Rembrandt prize Mr. Leuch said, “Miss Scott's en-|will be awarded to Willem Mengel-} gagement will be announced in nberg, the Dutch musician and can-j
ductor.
few days."
£1,000,000 NEW 'PLANE FACTORY
AIR CHIEF PLANS EXTENSIONS
of co-operation and good Will, but until that objective was obtained, we must proceed with- out pause or halt with our defences.
12,000 RECRUITS' Productive capacity was being in- creased and extensions of buildings and plant were being made througli- The Air approved the con- Ministry had
A new £1,000,000 aircraft factory out the aircraft Industry.
star of Hollywood films, express- breaks my heart If she did. have
I "The police say that ed his congratulations on heat legal claim on her, but nature has its ing that his former wife had, own laws. She is more mine than according to reports from New an York, been married secretly to else I's. Before I do anything training of auxillary personnel in had already entered.
a Canadian millionaire.
anyone
He said that Government had de- cided to extend the balloon defences of the country., He could not say where the new barrages would be located, but depots would probably be formed for the recruitment and several towns, including Birmingham. Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Hull. Newcastle, Plymouth, Southampton, Glasgow, and Cardiff.
The seat
UNREST AMONG JUTE WORKERS
CALCUTTA. Employers in the jute mills in and around Calcutta are restless owing to the apparent failure of the Jute Ordinance, restricting working-hours in mills, to benest the industry.
Mill-workers complain of the loss in wages owing to shorter hours. without any benefis accruing to the cultivators.
The
price of raw jute in fact, fallen since the statutory Thas, in tat
restriction on the output of the mills. Kloting in Delhi. Two Hindus were killed and six Hindus and one Moslem seriously injured in a com- munal fight in Delhi recently. The trouble began when a party of Hindus passed a mosque shouting slogans to which the Moslems objected.-Reuter.
MARGARET BANNERMAN
EXPLAINS
London Margaret Bannerman,
the
was
The
at Gloucester und £500,000 extcnstruction of the new £1,000,000 sions to an aircraft factory at Stock- factory at Gloucester to be managed Miss port were announced by Sir Kingsley by the Gloster Alrcraft Company, actress, explained how she came to Wood, Secretary for Alr, at Comand extensions had also been be found lying Injured in a country bridge recently.
approved to the Fairey Factory at June at Elstree, Herts. She
more exercising her two favourite dogs Stockport, which would cost
when the accident happened. than £500,000.
There had been a remarkable dogs were frisky, Miss Bannerman CII- response to the appeal for recruits said, and the leashes became
She was for the Royal Air Force, and more tangled round her legs. than 11,000 men, and sonic 2,000 boys thrown on her face downwards, and Since April was cut and brulsed on the head and was at first thought that men had face. It between 900 and 1,000
pilots in the Miss Bannerman might have been started training as
and over 300
knocked down by a car. She was regular service observers.
found late in the afternoon by a Sir Kingsley, who was speaking at It was very necessary that recruit-passing motorist, lying on the gravel there path in Allum-lane in a semi-con- the opening of a private aerodrome ment should continue, and owned by the Marshal Flying School, were, in particular, excellent open-sclous condition. The dogs were
guard
Misa her. pointed out that we no longer had ing for young men for training as keeping Bicycle Trailer For Dog Dod security as an island nation, air observers, and in such trades as Bannerman is being treated by Mr. and we were bridged to the continent those of wireless operator, armourer, Rainsford Mowlem, a specialist in by machines capable of destruction electrician, and instrument repairer. plastic surgery. as he follows his master, 16-year-and death which were little fetiered
by distance and geography.
ask her real am going to mother to give me permission legally to adopt Elleen.
"I will never part with her as long
The marriage, it is confirmed, look place shortly after Miss Grahame'sna I Hve." recent divorce at Reno became abso- lute.
Misa Grahame's friends state that her second husband is Mr. Allen Maomlartin, whose wealth comes from the Hollinger Gold Mines and who is said to have made her a wedding present of £40,000.
.PARTED AMICABLY
Springfield, Muss.
"Corky" takes his case nowadays
old Dick Gringos, ' o bicycle en- thusiast. Beenuse the dog got so tired following him, Dick built a bicycle trailer and put "Corky's" bed In it.
Mr. Lister told a Daily Mali re- porter at his London flat: "I have not an actor and a flim star," he added seen Miss Grahame for the past two with a laugh. years, and, although we parted on Asked if he intended entering ma- amicable terms, all sorts of stories trimony again-he was formerly the have been circulated about our mar-husband of Miss Nora Swinburne, the actress Mr. Lister replied: "The ried life.
"We had been married about five only thing I might be entering, apart years before the divorce, and that is from a new film in a fortnight's time, supposed to be a very long time for Is the Army, if I am wanted."
WORK TO GO ON
Europe had just been very near great disaster, and many hind realised
of
for
for the first time through the digging trenches, arrangements evacuation, and the distribution of gas masks, what might mean.
E modern war
I was hoped that as a result of the crisis the nations would now work unoczsingly together for the elimination of the causes of hostility and for the promotion
As
over
The Major's Pigs
Major W. W. Dyer, of Lavender Cottage, Marten, Wilte, fined 30s, at Marlborough rocently for driving à motor-car with no rear light, wrote to the court:
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THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The grateful thanks of the society is hereby tendered to the many subscribers during the year ended 31st October, and the society is pleased to inform them that the total income for the year has nearly covered the increasing expenditure, Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.
c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O. Building.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo-Chine,
Hongkong.
November 1st, 1938.
for a
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