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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 23, 1939.
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"FIANCE" GOT £90: GAOLED
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Her Money For Their Home: He Had One Already
She Bought Cake And Trousseau
BECAUSE SHE LENT £90 TO HER "FIANCE," WHO SHE LATER FOUND WAS A WIDOWER LIVING WITH ANOTHER WOMAN, PRETTY NINA READ, OF ALGA-ROAD, ISLEWORTH, MIDDLESEX, HAS GOT TO LOOK FOR A JOB.
THE "FIANCE,” JOSEPH RAYMOND, WAS SEN- TENCED TO THREE MONTHS AT BRENTFORD RECENTLY FOR OBTAINING MONEY FROM HER BY FRAUD.
"I have spent £60 on my bottom drawer, quite apart from what my fiance had," Miss Read said.
"Everything was ready for our wedding at Easter, which had already been postponed from September. I had bought a trousseau, a wedding gown, my bridesmaids' dresses, and the cake. Arrangements for the reception had been made and all invitations sent out, and our house is still full of the presents we received,
"When my dance wanted to put off the wedding for a second time!
ut hi my mother made inquiries house in States, and found in Hving with a woman and children.
children were
own.
several
HAD TWO CHILDREN "Afterwards he confessed that he was a widower and that two of the 1le at Bever told me anything about that "In à job now that I have no marriage to look forward to. I am hai here was three years
bito.
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Girl Left Norway To
Wed In A Boat
Cardif
A pilot launch salted from Barry urlour beyond the three-mile limit so that Greta Hvirvin, a blue-eyed Norwegian girl who arrived in Wales Norway, could from Fornsbar. marry the boy next door."
The "boy," Aske Andersen,
In the all Janicer chief officer Madronu, which was undergoing re- pulga nt a Cardiff dry-dock.
A Norwegian-flag from the Inunel's during the ceremony.
Rolph Rasmussen. etaplain Cardi! Norwegian Church,
of the
"For the first two and a half years of our acquaintance I have no re- Rels. We were very happy lo-masthead gether. Jack was very generous to which was performed by the Rev. me, taking me out almost daily.
"At that time It was his own using. He wis an money he was hotel manager, and good at his job. I trusted him completely.
"After our engagement we planned to many in September and start anj hotel together at Sunningdale, us i
Mr. Rasmussen said: "I could not marry the couple in my church, be cause under Norwegian law the only place in England where the marriage cald be performed is the Legation in London."
A beautiful Coalle-Flower which makes an excellent table decoration.
Grow A Coalie-Flower
THE growing of Coalle-Flowers which is all the rage at Home
just now is beginning to "take on in Hongkong.
are A Chemical You know, of course, that Conlie-Flowers formation of coral-like appearance on lumps of ordinary house- hold coal.
either salt UI
They can be produced in an endless variety of shapes and colour designs and are an increasing vogue as table decorations,
The "plants," which grow almost the addition of perceptibly, become really luxuriant ammonia,
If you feed the plant with salt you in a few days, but it may take a week or more to bring them to per-wl need a teaspoonful in a table- fection.
spoonful of water. If you use an monia you will need a tablespoon- eful mixed with an equal quantity of
Here are the dircellons:--
You require Uree packets powder blue, three tablespoonfuls of water,
The "plant food" should be added household ammonia, two tablespoon- fuls of common sali and one small by pouring down the side of the
bowl, bottle of red ink-all mixed with three tablespoonfuls of cold water.
over
The mixture is then poured three or four pieces of coal (size of a tangerine orange) which have been glass or placed in the bottom china bowl.
in a very
The bowl is then put
warm place, on top of a radiator or in front of a fire.
also am a qualified hotel manageress had much more, both in cash and in you It would have been ideal.
property.
"We bought lots of things with
future home, my money for our which he said he would look after until we were married. Later we found that he was using all these things in his house."
"DEPOSITS" FOR HOTEL "When he suddenly asked me for 'deposite. which he said he needed to buy an hotel. I believed him. He bad three lump sums of £30 each from me. Over and above that he
Produce of A
Cunningham Reid Sues For Divorce
Cunningham-Rek. 'Captain S. Conservative M.P. for St. Maryle- bone, I suing for divorce.
inks By using different-coloured
can produce interesting and effects in the some varied colour plant.
CARE OF THE PLANT
He has cited as co-respondent M. Then, apart from keeping the "culture" at a high temperature, all Henri Garut, the French actor, do is to tend it once once voted by a plebiscite of cinema- you need to every two days, keeping it alive with goers the best-looking screen star in
France.
Protective food
There is no effective substitute for Good Butter. We cannot have too much of it. Particularly it enables young children to thrive and grow, and be full of energy and power to resist disease and cold.. Butter is a vital food substance; you
should therefore use only the best.
BUY 'AUSTRALIAN BUTTER' "BY EVERY TEST THE WORLD'S BEST"'
Obtainable At All Compradore Stores,
AUSTRALIAN BUTTER
He played leading man to Lilian Harvey in n number of pictures. including "Congress. Doncés," und in 1937 was in the British flim,
the "The Girl in
Tuxi." with Frances Day. He received £1,000 a week.
Captain Cunningham-Reld's wife before their marriage was the Hon. Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley, daughter of Lord Mount Temple. She revert- ed in her maiden name by deed poll.
1er-income has been stated to bu £70,000 a year. She was co-heiress with her sister, Lady Louis Mount- batten, to the £4,000,000 fortune left by her grandfather, Sir Ernest Cassel.
Last year she figured in a lawsuit concerning financial Arrangements said to have been made between her and her husband. A settlement of the case was announced during the
hearing
The action was brought by her husband, and a counter-action by her was withdrawn,
The divorce sull now being brought
by Captain Cunningham-Reid is due
for hearing before Whitsun.
Wedding-Dress Tiff Stops Wedding
Whitley Bay,
Northumberland.
A tiff over the bride's wedding dress has caused cancellation of plans: for the wedding of Miss Elspeth Cook, aged twenty-two, of East Holywell, and Mr. Albert William Holmes, farmworker, of
of Earsdon.
taken
The wedding should have place in Earsdon Parish Church, but after consulting with Miss Cook the day before the ceremony, Mr. Holmes cancelled the arrangements.
Miss Cook said "I shall never forgive Billy. When I showed him my wedding dress he said he re- fused to pay for it.
Mr. Holmes said: "Elspeth had no right to order the, wedding dress in my name.
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