Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
"FIANCE" GOT £90: GAOLED
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 TOʻLOOK 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 tance wanted to put off the wedding for a second time. my mother made inquiries house in Stalmes, and found him Iving with Woman ond several children.
at his Girl Left Norway To
Wed In A Boat
HAD TWO CHILDREN "Afterwards he confessed that he was a widower and that two of the He had children were his own. never told me anything about that. "I must find a job now that I have no marriage to look forward to. I am back where I was three years altu.
"For the Arst two and a half years of our acquaintance 1 have no re- to- happy Krets. We were very gether. Juck was very generous to me, taking me out almost daily.
"At that time it was bls own money he was using He hotel manager, and good at his job. I trusled in completely.
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"After our engagement we planned to marry in September and start on hotel together at Sunningdale, as i also am a qualified hotel manageress, It would have been ideal.
Cardiff.
A pilot launch sailed from Barry Harbour beyond the three-mile limit so that Greta Hvirvin, a blue-eyed Norwegian girl who arrived in Wales; from Foenshary, Norway, could marry the boy next door."
The "boy," Aake Andersen, Is chief ofleer in the vil tanker Madrono, which was undergoing re- pairs at a Cardiff dry-dock.
the
A Norwegian flag from the launch's masthead during
ceremony. which was performed by the Bev Rolph Rasinussen, chaplain Cardiff Norwegian Church,
of the
Mr. Resmussen said: "I could not marry the couple in my church, be cause under Norweglan law the only place in England where the morrlage could be performed is the Legation in Lendon."
had much more, both in cash and th property.
"DEPOSITS" FOR HOTEL "When he suddenly asked me for "deposits, which he said he needed to buy on hotel, I believed him. He had three lump sums of £30 each from. Over and above. that he things in his house."
"We bought lots of things with Iuture 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
Produce of Austral
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.
chemicul You know, of course, that Conic-Elgwers are formation of coral-like appearance on lumps of ordinary house- hold conl..
a
ot either salt tur
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 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-will need a teaspoonful in a table- fection.
spoonful of water. If you use am- monia you will need a tablespoon- ful mixed with an equal quantity of water.
Here are the directions:-
You require three packets of powder blue, three tablespoonfuls of
The "plant food" should be added household ammonia, two tablespoon-. fuls of common salt and one small by pouring down the side of the
bowl. bottle of red Ink-li mixed with three lablespoonfuls of cold water.
The mixture is then poured over three or four pieces of coal (size of a tangerine orange) which have been placed in the bottom of a glass or china bowl,
The bowl is then put in a very warm place, on top of a radiator ar in front of a fre.
Inks und
By using different-coloured you can produce interesting varied colour effects in the same plant,
CARE OF THE PLANT Then, apart from keeping the "culture" at a high temperature, all you need to do is to tend it once every two days, keeping it alive with
Protective food
There is no effective substitute for Cood 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.
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Cunningham
Reid Sues
For Divorce
Cunningham-Reld,
Captain A. S. Conservative MLP: for St. bone, is suing for divorce.
Maryle-
He has cited, as co-respondent M. Henri Garat, the French film actor, once voted by a plebiscite of cinema- goers the best-looking screen star in France.
He played leading man to Lillan Harvey in a number of pleiures, Including "Congress Dances," and in 1937 was in the British, film, "The Girl in the Taxi," with Frances Day. He received £1,000 a week
Captain Cunningham-Reid's wife before their marriage was the Hon. Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley, daughter of Lord Mount Temple. She revert-
May 23, 1939.
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HONGKONG HOTEL
WEDNESDAY 24th MAY
COWAN & BAILEY
ed to her malden" name by deed-poll.-|-------
Her Income has been stated to be £70,000 a year. She was co-hetress with her sister, Lady Louis Mount- balten, to the £6,000,000 fortune left by her grandfather, Sir Ernest Cassel.
Last year she figured in a lawsuit concerning financial arrangements sald to have been made between her and her husband A settlement of the case was announced during the
bearing.
The action was brought by her husband, and a counter-action by her! was withdrawn.
The divorce suit now being brought
by Captain Cunningham-Reid is due
for hearing before Whitsun.
Wedding-Dress Tiff Stops Wedding
Whitley Bay,
Northumberland.
A hit over the bride's wedding dross has caused cancellation of plans for the wedding of Miss Elspeth Cook, aged twenty-two, of East Holywell. and Mr. Albert
Holmes, William farmworker, of Earsdon.
The
place in Ea
should have taken
Parish Church, but
radon)
after consulting with Miss Cook the Mr. Holmes
day before the
cancelled the arrang
Miss
Cook said: "I shall never forgive Billy. When I showed him my wedding dress he said he re- fused to pay for il
Mr. Holmes said: "Elspeth had no right to order the wedding dress in my name;
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